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Shift container by 1/8 ?

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henrik
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I'm trying to move a container by 1/8, but it seems the smallest shift value is 1/4 ?  By design ? If yes, then there is the need to let yourself define the current raster, as it is with figures.

For example, I have a melody  of 4  1/8 notes, and I want to mute  the 4th note using a "mute container" with paused instruments.

How to achieve this if I can only shift by 1/4 ?

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henrik
Sun, 2015-04-12 - 14:35 Permalink

Thanks for the hint,however I did not succeed. 

The tooltip in the "offset" text box shows "refer to the manual". But in manual I could not find anything related to this, also the word "Offset" is not included.  It states: "for positioning containers with the mouse the  current selected raster  is applied".  Which raster is meant ? 

 

When I enter 1/8 in "Offset", it gets transformed to 240.

 

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juergen
Mon, 2015-04-13 - 08:33 Permalink

The value you have to enter into "Offset" is counted from the beginning of the arrangement. So, if you want to place a container for example 1/8 after the starting point of measure 5 you have to enter 5m + 1/8.

 

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andre
Mon, 2015-04-13 - 14:31 Permalink

To be exact, "Offset" is the container's position inside its parent container. If that's the root container, offset is indeed the position on the timeline.

Values shown as numbers are in terms of 1/1920 notes (240 = 1/8)