markers and measures

John6528


Use markers. Then inserted a change from 4/4 to 3/4 in middle of the piece and later back to 4/4. That threw all the markers off cause they stayed with the time instead of the measure.  Any way to attach them to measures instead of beats or time?
Thanks
John

In a word, No.  Markers are attached to time, and take their time association completely literally.  Just like the tempo map doesn't care how you've divided up your time, to Markers it's all just -time.  There's no way they would know, "Ah, he changed to 3/4, meaning that now he wants less time in the project at this point, so we have to now set ourselves 1 beat earlier."---if Markers could think, they would have to think in terms something like that in order for them to do what you want.

In other words, changing your time signature didn't cut any time out of your project, it just re-divided how you're counting that time.  Meanwhile, my feeling is that Markers have to be associated with time and not measures in order for them to be flexible.  Haven't you ever needed markers in the middle of a measure? 

Randy B.