[Rwp] getting time

[Chris Belle]

That is indeed a handy dialogue to manipulate when you know where you 
are going.

But when you want to query,
where you are, or how long something is, that's when changing the view 
setting, or turning on the big clock,
or some other method needs to be used.



On 11/1/2015 9:42 AM, theoreomonster--- via RWP wrote:
> in that case you can use the jump to dialog (CTRL+J) to jump to the 
> specific time the client is referring to. In that dialog you can type 
> in Hours/Mins/seconds, Measures/Beats, or even marker numbers.
>
>> On Nov 1, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Chris Smart via RWP 
>> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com <mailto:rwp at bluegrasspals.com>> wrote:
>>
>> reading the play cursor quickly is very handy. I'm always getting 
>> notes back from clients refering to changes they want at specific 
>> times in their mixes. and, i've never had a single client refer to 
>> bar numbers or sections of the song form, it's always minutes and 
>> seconds.
>>
>> At 02:50 AM 11/1/2015, you wrote:
>>> The link to the key map is always the same, so the link on the site 
>>> is always correct. :)
>>>
>>> If you only care about minutes/seconds, you could just change the 
>>> ruler time unit in the View menu. OSARA will honour that and only 
>>> read min/sec if you set it accordingly.
>>>
>>> The edit cursor and the play cursor are separate things. The former 
>>> is usually more important, as it is where most actions take effect. 
>>> You can route the edit cursor to the play cursor with an action. 
>>> Perhaps we may need a command to read the play cursor time for the 
>>> cases where it's needed.
>>>
>>> Sent from a mobile device
>>>
>>> > On 1 Nov 2015, at 5:23 PM, Chris Belle via RWP 
>>> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com <mailto:rwp at bluegrasspals.com>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Actually, I just tried it and I do get a minute and seconds 
>>> reading when pressing twice.
>>> >
>>> > It's really strange to be able to move the edit cursor while a 
>>> recording is actually going on, and you aren't reading the recording 
>>> time, but I guess the last item split while recording.
>>> > There's no way to get a time recorded while recordingI don't guess 
>>> is there?
>>> > I can see the bars and do the calc but was just wondering.
>>> > Is that someplace on the window and I somehow missed it or another 
>>> action?
>>> >
>>> >> On 11/1/2015 1:16 AM, Chris Belle via RWP wrote:
>>> >> Could I have a link to the latest keymap?
>>> >>
>>> >> I can surely get it off the site, but someone said they were a 
>>> little behind in getting it up, and new stuff was added, or has that 
>>> been remedied?
>>> >> I know people get busy 'smile'.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>> On 11/1/2015 1:02 AM, Derek Lane via RWP wrote:
>>> >>> Not sure what the action is called, but, should you be running 
>>> the latest reaper/osara/keymap, you'll find that pressing 
>>> control+shift+J  twice will do what you need.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Belle via RWP" 
>>> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com <mailto:rwp at bluegrasspals.com>>
>>> >>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com 
>>> <mailto:rwp at bluegrasspals.com>>
>>> >>> Cc: "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net 
>>> <mailto:cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>>
>>> >>> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 12:57 AM
>>> >>> Subject: Re: [Rwp] getting time
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>> Hey, i know we can use the control j jump dialogue and move by 
>>> bars, and put in
>>> >>>> time values and get a time, but how do we query reaper to how 
>>> much time has elapsed?
>>> >>>> I can not see any time values on the reaper interface with 
>>> object nav, and I've looked at the actions list and so far haven't 
>>> found anything, but who knows with the thousands of actions, I could 
>>> easily have missed it?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> My default fall back trick is to set my tempo to 240 beats,
>>> >>>> which gives you a second per bar, you have to off-set by one,
>>> >>>> but that's my work around there's got to be a better way 'grin'.
>>> >>>>
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