Thanks Pipeline, I got the colors I want for the current playing bar against the highlighted loop bars. Your dropdown located at the top right of display options was all I needed. I had looked there before but didn't notice that drop down. So after analyzing the selections for a while I finally figured it out (I could not read your selections). Actually I went back later while proof reading this post and with Google chrome using ctrl+ I was able to make your post's characters larger so eventually I could see your selections.

So Between Charlie's info and this is it is pretty much solved.

Having said that, it seems Charlie's approach is the only way to get pause to work without loosing the loop. The space bar pause does not work with the highlighted bars approach (the loop is lost).

I clicked the (loop button, Loop Section Dialog) sequence and found reference to the L command Charlie pointed out. You can leave the default to 4 bars or change it to a different value. I also tried entering L3 then pressing enter. It defaults to beginning the loop from the current highlighted bar.

In the end (because I generally only loop small difficult sections for improvising purposes) I will probably use the highlighted bars approach and if I have to stop with the space bar I will just restart it from the beginning with the F10 key. But I will keep my reminder entry and maybe in the future I will have a need for the L command. Come to think of it, if one gives a 2 bar lead in to a large difficult section there is probably no need for all the loop to be highlighted. I find the loop in itself normally takes a bit of practice.

Last edited by bowlesj; 09/26/20 04:14 PM.
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