How to Turn Off Auto Transient Markers

Hi

Is there a way to ‘turn off’ the temporary purple transient markers from appearing?

The manual suggests these are ‘automatic’ but they have only suddenly started to appear in my projects … so I am thinking I have accidentally activated them.

I want to turn them off because when working quickly and selecting a section beween markers, the selection sometimes extends to the transient (which I do not want).

Thanks

Paul

This option is independent for the audio file and audio montage editors.

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Thank you …

May I add a voice to this comment?

I am often mildly frustrated by this behavior when trying to select everything between two markers. This is especially true because selecting portions of CD tracks is something typically done at a screen scale where where it’s impossible to differentiate between track and transient except by looking the the yellow label and waiting for it to change from “Transient” to “Marker.” I mean, in the image below, can you tell what side of the marker the selection extends to?

I wish that, as the selection line moved along with the mouse, it would have a preference to stop at the user-inserted marker instead equally weighting every transient. The marker is almost certainly what the user is aiming for. (Does anyone’s workflow require selecting an entire CD track plus an unknown, teeny weeny tiny little bit of the preceding track, or minus the very beginning of the track?)

I think I’ve mentioned this before with respect to control surfaces generally – sliders, knobs, the waveform envelope in a montage, etc.. I find that adjustable settings tend do bounce back and forth between +.1 and -.1, rarely stopping at zero or center, no matter how slowly or carefully I move the mouse. It’s often very hard to get the control to stop at zero, or center, or whatever point a knob would have a slight detente on a piece of physical hardware.

Yeah, there are keyboard shortcuts and other ways to reset controls or sometimes a place to type in a “0”, and yeah, I suppose I could oil and hone my mouse pad …. but I do wish that WL would give a slight weighting to certain default settings or positions to make them easier to find.

Hi

I unchecked this option … but it still creates the transient marker?

Any ideas why?

Paul

Yes, there is a bug, and in certain situations when you use the arrow keys (but not only), the transient markers may come up. This will be fixed in the next version.

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Yes, I have been seeing this here and there with various things I do but my priority to report it has been low, as well as details on how to describe when and how it happens.

Normally, close and reopening the montage clears it.