Documenting sections in DAWs

Axe_meister

I know the basics of using DAWs, am currently playing with Cakewalk, Reaper and studio one. To work out which I want to use, Reaper seems to be my favourite so far.
However does anybody know if it's possible to have an information track displaying at the top of the screen. i.e. I can document chord changes, If bridge, verse, chorus, etc.
Would have though it would be a standard feature, e.g. insert documentation track.

octatonic

They are generally called markers and most DAW's have them.

Axe_meister

Cheers for that would love to have multi level markers with say top level saying verse and then an extra line with chord changes

PolarityMan

I use regions extensively in reaper, that combined with amrkers can give you sahort text, then there is a free from notes area for logner stuff.

octatonic

Axe_meister said:

Cheers for that would love to have multi level markers with say top level saying verse and then an extra line with chord changes

Like this, you mean?

Cirrus

S1 has both a marker track and an arrange view. Arrange is designed for dragging, dropping etc sections of the track around as as such it defines areas rather than single points in time, but if it was purely as a visual aid you could probably use that to define song sections and the marker track to show chord changes or other notes.

andy_k

I think you can actually make notes on a track in Reaper. Set up a track, with sections as desired, and there is a way of having the notes ( written) displayed within it. It might be an addon, via SWS extensions, or Reapack.

stratman3142

In Reaper I use regions to denote sections because that lets me easily drag-move and drag-copy regions try different arrangements.

I denote chords using empty items, instead of audio or midi items, which allows me to type in the chords.

I sometimes use markers to mark the start of specific sections.

Below is an example of regions, a marker and a chord sequence. I could insert pictures into the empty items as well if, for example, I wanted to show chord boxes.

https://i.imgur.com/ijqCpCc.png

Stuckfast

Yes the marker functionality in most DAWs is weirdly shit.