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Session Length in BBT Anomaly

Greetings,

I've noticed an anomaly regarding the session length indication, and am not sure if it's a bug or simply something I don't understand.

My song is 79 complete measures long, and is in 4/4 time. The first 20 measures have a tempo of 100 bpm, and the remaining 59 have a tempo of 120 bpm. So, the tempo change occurs at the start of measure 21.

In what follows, assume the playhead is at the very end of the song.

If the playhead position display, up in the toolbar, is set to frames, then I see an indication of 7320600 both in the playhead indicator and in the session length indicator in the status bar (near the bottom right of the screen). These match.

Now setting the playhead position to show in time, and I see 2:46.000 both in the playhead position display and in the session length indicator in the status bar. These, too, match.

But setting things to show in BBT, at the top I see 80.1.00 and in the status bar I see 69.0.640.

So the session length in BBT, shown in the status bar at the bottom, appears to be at odds with the true value. The numbers suspiciously suggest it was the tempo change which caused this.

Or am I stupidly missing some vital factor? Thanks for any explanation which can be offered.

Thomas

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Thinking about this a bit more, I see now that 69.0.640 BBT is equivalent to 2:46 in minutes and seconds, if the tempo is assumed to be 100 bpm throughout.

So it appears Qtractor doesn't take into account the tempo change when computing the session length in BBT. Hence, the value appearing in the status bar is inaccurate in this case. Time and frames seem to be okay, though, as mentioned.

Thomas

rncbc's picture

hi, the more you harness the beast, more the likelihood to shallow its bugs... :)

now hopefully fixed in 1.4.0.27git.567f3a

nb. a length or duration is displayed in delta-BBT format, as a number or count of bars and beats. eg. a zero time length, displayed as "00:00:00.000" is "0.0.000" in delta-BBT format, which differs from the usual way, normal-BBT="1.1.000".

thanks

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