Time marker in NOTES module not working in certain songparts

Hi,

I noticed that the time marker function does not work at certain songparts. Normally the NOTES module displays the text after the time marker, here seen as [time beat 224] on top of the page in white. The timebeat number seems to be the barposition times 4, minus 4 counts. So songposition bar 0057.1.1 should be 57x4-4=224.

So why does the NOTES module not jump to time beat 288 when it gets to bar 73 (73x4-4=288) and keeps hanging at 224?

Also the last songpart “Outro” at bar 103 does not make the NOTES page jump to its corresponding timebeat/marker 408.

When I jump back in the song to a earlier part, with positions before and including time beat 224 the NOTES module responds fine

Meanwhile I tip my hat to you for such great work. I think you maxed out “Notes” feature :clap::smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

https://forums.steinberg.net/t/time-marker-in-notes-module-not-working-in-certain-songparts/1007716/2?u=steve_pin

Tnx Felician :wink:

@musicullum is this true, is there a limit to what you put into “notes”?

I mean, you got out something really huge out from Notes. Absolutely not meant, you’re beyond the limit a of Notes :slight_smile:

Felician, I got that but what is that actual limit?

Just trying to find a way to get musicstuff I have on paper like tab/notes/score/lyrics into VL.

So if text is not usable because the limitations of “notes” and images (jpg) put into “notes” are not scalable/sizeable into the “notes” screen, what would be your suggestion?

Again! There is no limitation (I guess)

Dear Felician, I lost you there :frowning:

So,

Language error, Sry! I meant you amazed me how complex NOTES you made with TABs, Thats all. I e.g used notes simply for sripting, etc…

I dont think NOTES cares about how much characters you use :slight_smile:

No, there is no such limit we are aware of.

It works fine here.

  • new project
  • copy/paste some lorem ipsum text filling 8 or so pages
  • time marker at beat 288
  • run from bar 71 or so, jumps to time anchor at bar 73 just fine.

Maybe you have some signature track in your example?

Hi Musicullum,

No, there is no signature track in my project. I made a little video showing the issue; the notespage jumps to [time beat 160] around bar 40 at the part called “couplet2”, but does not jump to [time beat 224] when it gets to bar 57.

Can send you the procject if you like

yes, please.

You did test with 2.2.73, right?

Did some testing. Seems that the time marker in de Notes module looks at info between the square bracket [ ] symbols for time info.

When you use the square bracket here for other stuff like [verse], [bridge], [refrain] which is very common in lyrics, the module is disturbed and fails to accept further time beat info.

A workaround is to not use square brackets, but use another symbol like curly brace { }

It explicitly looks for “[time”. Anything else is ignored, so it seems impossible that any other text would have any impact whatsoever. Could you pls send some text to test?