Playback head.

I did something to change the playback head in LP8. When I hit the spacebar, playback starts one bar prior to my highlighted 'green' section.
In my other projects, the spacebar starts playback in the highlighted 'green' section.
Where do I fix this?

Sounds more like a corrupted project to me. I had this happen from time to time. The only fix I found was to alter the Song's starting point from 0 1 1 1 to 1 1 1 1. Evr since then I will not let projects start befor 1 1 1 1 because this somettimes causes this faulty behaviour. So in case your song does not start at 1 1 1 1 try my suggestion and report back if that helped.
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