Can I somehow see/determine the length of a song (in minutes & seconds) by looking at the arrangement?
Hi,
Reference from MMM 16 Premium, I do not know your version.
You got various options to see duration.
Look at the image.
No.1 if you right click in this marked area you can set as you deisre. Do yourself and see the changes.
Look at arrow marked No.2 pointing time 5:1 seconds and see arrow No.3 showing same timings.
For example I have put one audio on Track 6 just to make you understand the timing. Where that audio ends look at the red line from bottom to upward showing time 5:1. As my audio is only 5:1 seconds it is showing that time if it will be longer that duration will be shown.
Thank you
nihon94
Unfortunately, in MMM, you can't. The "timeline" that nihon94 is showing in her photo is a bar/beat counter, not time. The only way I know of is to export it and play it in a media player....or get a stopwatch.
That would be the first beat of the fifth bar at 100 BPM, so...
4 (bars) x 4 beats (in 4/4 time) = 16 beats
[The first beat doesn't count because it occurs at 0 seconds. We are looking at "elapsed" time here.]
16 (beats)/100 (BPM) = .16 minutes
.16 min. x 60 (seconds) = 9.6 seconds
Therefore...
5:1 = 9.6 seconds at 100 BPM
Piece of cake...LOL
Hi,
Procyon has already defined everything even I learned some.
About my images, the duration was in seconds.
Normally Hours/Minutes/seconds is displayed. We can also change as I did in images below.
I do not know what you are upto but if you want to calculate duration you should follow Procyon mehtod I am not good at maths. But for your ease here is some explanation and images.
Image showing Bar/Beat. I have used a Midi from my record its original duration is in 32 seconds. You can see Total bar 17
In this image I have used same Midi but using Milliseconds not Bar/Beat. This will let you to know the seconds.
The duration is elapsed duration.
Total Bar 17, Milliseconds 34, Beat Per Minute(BPM)120
34/17=2 (2X17=34) or follow Procyon methods.
4x17=68, .68/120Bpm=0.566 make round figure.57
.57x60 seconds=34.2 approximately
Thank you
nihon94
Sometimes I learn something new as well. My apologies for contradicting you.
Unfortunately, the display looks the same whether it shows time or bars/beat.
I also made the mistake of forgetting some features may have been changed in MM-16. I am still using MM-15. I've searched a number of times and found no way to change the "timeline" in MM-15 to show time.
nihon 94....did you right-click on the "timeline" to get that menu? That doesn't work in MM-15.
To Procyon,
Yes right click please refer the fist screen shot below (from bottom) I have marked the area with red arrow numbered 1.
Thank you
nihon94
Sometimes I learn something new as well. My apologies for contradicting you.
Unfortunately, the display looks the same whether it shows time or bars/beat.
I also made the mistake of forgetting some features may have been changed in MM-16. I am still using MM-15. I've searched a number of times and found no way to change the "timeline" in MM-15 to show time.
nihon 94....did you right-click on the "timeline" to get that menu? That doesn't work in MM-15.