You can change the position of the window within the entire soundfile in a number of ways:
Place the mouse pointer anywhere on the overview strip and depress the left mouse button. The soundfile window will be centered on the cursor position (unless localized too close to the beginning or end of the soundfile). Since the overview represents the entire recording (always the one displayed in the active window), it provides the quickest way of global window positioning.
Drag the horizontal scrollbar.
Click on the left/right scrollbar arrow (the window moves by 1/8 of its content) or click on the scrollbar strip to the left/right of the tab (the window moves by 3/4 of its content).
Use the keyboard
ARROW
, HOME
and END
keys to change position of the cursor - when the cursor leaves the displayed area the position of the soundfile window is automatically adjusted.
Use the Go to commands, available from the Edit menu (see below).
LEFT/RIGHT ARROW
moves cursor by one pixel to the left/right
CTRL+LEFT/RIGHT ARROW
moves cursor by 10 pixels to the left/right
ALT+CTRL+LEFT/RIGHT ARROW
moves cursor by 100 pixels to the left/right
HOME
moves cursor to the beginning of the file
END
moves cursor to the end of the file
TAB
centers contents of an active window around the current cursor position (unless at the very beginning or very end of the soundfile).
To change the position of the cursor within the soundfile window:
Position the pointer anywhere in the signal display area of the soundfile window and depress the left mouse button.
Use the keyboard
LEFT/RIGHT ARROW
keys as described above.
Finally, to move the contents of the active window by one pixel to the left/right
Click the left/right scrollbar arrow while holding down the
CTRL
key.
Using 'Go to' commands
You can use these commands to move the cursor to specific locations.
If you would like to jump to a prescribed position, choose Go to new position (G
) and type in a new cursor coordinate: sample number (if the time axis is calibrated in samples) or time (if the axis is calibrated in units of time). In order to change the method of calibration, check or uncheck the Time scale in seconds box in the Preferences dialog available from the Options menu.
Time can be specified in two different ways - by giving a number of hours, minutes and seconds separated by colons (a digital clock notation) or seconds only. This means you can write either 1:06:40.25 or 4000.25, whichever is more convenient - DART XP Pro will accept both notations.
Apart from fixing an absolute position of the cursor, you can set its relative position within the soundfile, i.e. position expressed as a percentage of the overall file length. To achieve this, enter a positive number smaller than 100.0 and follow it with the percent sign, e.g. write 27.5%. Relative positioning can be used in a very similar way as clicking on the overview strip; it works irrespective of the adopted method of axis calibration.
In order to set the cursor at the beginning of the distinguished area (block), choose Go to beginning of the block or press F11
. To move it to the end of the block choose Go to end of the block, or press F12
.
To move cursor to a given marker or click marker choose Go to new position (G
) and type in ‘m’ followed by the marker label, e.g., ‘m1’ will move the cursor to the marker labeled 1 and ‘mb’ will move it to the click marker labeled B. To move cursor to the next or previous marker, use the Go to next/previous marker command, or press the > or < key, respectively.