Hi Brandon,

Thanks for the tip about pressing Cmd g.  So that tells me the
location of the insertion point right?  But when you say you press
space to see where you are - that's  the playhead right?  Which is
different from the insertion point...?

Catherine

On 1/3/21, Brandon Olivares <thepianist2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No pressing the arrow keys won’t make any noise. Generally I press space to
> see where I am, or cmd+G to get the current location in minutes and
> seconds.
>
> Brandon
>
> “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven” – Satan, from Milton’s
> Paradise Lost
>
>
>
>> On Jan 3, 2021, at 4:53 PM, 'Catherine Turner' via MacVisionaries
>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to using Amadeus Pro and am working my way through Jonathan
>> Mosen's tutorial - though it's a few years old, I'm hoping I can still
>> learn a lot from it.
>>
>> I'm having a problem understanding what's going on with the insertion
>> point while the music is not playing.  In the tutorial, it says that
>> while the file is not playing, pressing left and right arrows will
>> move the insertion point.  Then he demonstrates this by saying "if I
>> press the left arrow key we're at the beginning of the file" and we
>> hear some audio playing.  But when I press left arrow with the file
>> paused, I don't hear audio.  He then goes on to talk about how it just
>> so happens the insertion point is where he wants it to make the cut he
>> wants.  But I don't understand how he knows where the insertion point
>> is.
>>
>> So I'm wondering whether, while sound is not playing, pressing the
>> left/right arrow keys is supposed to make some sound play.  If not,
>> how can we know where the insertion point is?  Perhaps this behaviour
>> has changed with later versions of Amadeus.  Or perhaps in the
>> tutorial he's doing something else he doesn't describe to make the
>> sound at the insertion point play - though this seems very unlikely.
>>
>> Please can anyone help me understand what's meant to happen to the
>> insertion point when we move it with the file not playing?  And/or how
>> can I find out where the insertion point is?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Catherine
>>
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