Setting the playhead with a click

Question

i feel like im missing something obvious here. i would like to be able to click in the bar ruler and have it set the playhead at the nearest coarse setting. in other words, i dont like the fact that when i click in the lower third of the bar ruler it places the playhead at some incredibly fine point; instead of placing it at bar 4.1.1.1 it will place it at 4.1.1.82 or something. changing snap values hasnt helped. is there some kind of a snap value somewhere for this?

Answer 1

Changing snap values ought to do it, but if you manually - or accidently - put it to a non-round location, it will move by snap values to and from that location. Like after it's at 4.1.1.82 it easily goes to 4.2.1.82. This is useful when you want to edit un-quantized or audio tracks, and don't want to disturb the downbeats, for example.
Anyway, the solution is to manually enter the number in the transport. (Always good for precise control of playhead and/or locators.) For 4.1.1.1 you only need to type the number 4. After that it's back to whatever snap position you've selected.
Message was edited by: Charlie the Tuna