5. Clips and structure

Markers and cues

Markers name the song’s sections: Intro, Verse, Chorus, Bridge. Each one starts a section that runs to the next marker, tinted in its colour along the top of the ruler. They make a long song easy to find your way around, and the Score, the Chart and the Stage write them as the song’s sections.

Markers and sections

Available on every platform.

Add a marker

• Add Marker (⌥')Add Marker (Alt+')Add Marker (Alt+' (⌥' on a Mac)) adds one at the caret, or at the playhead while the song plays, so you can mark sections as you listen. It’s named “Marker 1”, “Marker 2”… in order.
• Right-click the markers’ row at the top of the ruler and choose Add Marker Here.
• Before the first marker, double-click the markers’ row.

Markers come in with the song from Guitar Pro and MIDI files, and from MusicXML’s rehearsal marks (Bringing music in).

Go to a marker

Click a section to select its marker and put the caret at its start; while playing, the playhead jumps there too. Previous Marker (⌥,)Previous Marker (Alt+,)Previous Marker (Alt+, (⌥, on a Mac)) and Next Marker (⌥.)Next Marker (Alt+.)Next Marker (Alt+. (⌥. on a Mac)) go from marker to marker. While playing, Previous Marker counts a moment past a marker as on it, so a press just after a section starts goes to the one before.

Change a marker

• Move it: drag its section along the row. It snaps to the grid while snapping is on.
• Rename it: double-click its section, or choose Rename Marker… from its menu.
• Colour it: its menu’s Colour: Default, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Teal, Blue, Purple or Pink.
• Delete it: Delete Marker in its menu, or select it and press ⌫Backspace, DeleteBackspace, Delete (⌫, ⌦ on a Mac).

The same markers show along the ruler of every Editor and Arranger pane, and in the Markers song row, which works the same way.

Where markers show

• The Score writes each marker’s name as a rehearsal mark over the first staff (Reading the score).
• The Chart starts a row at each section, its name and colour in a box at the left (The Chart).
• The Stage shows the section playing and the next one (The Stage).
• Exports to MIDI and Guitar Pro keep them.

Cues

Available on every platform.

A cue is a word to the band as a section comes: “watch me”, “×4 then stop”, “drums only”. On the Stage it shows as a banner across the screen from the bar before its section and through the section’s first bar, so everyone reading sees it in time.

Add a cue

1. Right-click the section’s marker in the markers’ row.
2. Choose Add Cue… and type it.

A marker with a cue shows a small • after its name. To change the cue, choose Edit Cue…; to remove it, clear the field.

The Stage’s Show Cues turns the banners off and on.