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🕒 Cursor Time Display

The Cursor Time Display is a small retro seven-segment clock you can place on the toolbar. While you edit it shows where the cursor sits in the song as a wall-clock time; during playback it runs like a media player's time readout. A left-click cycles what it shows, a right-click recolours it.

The retro seven-segment cursor-time clock sitting on the MidiEditor AI toolbar.

The clock on the toolbar.

Where to find it

The clock is a toolbar widget, managed exactly like the MIDI Visualizer: it ships enabled by default, and you add, remove, or reposition it from Settings → Customize Toolbar. Look for Cursor Time in the action list (View category) and drag it wherever you like, on either toolbar row.

Settings, Customize Toolbar tab, with the Cursor Time entry in the toolbar action list.

Adding or moving the clock via Settings → Customize Toolbar.

Readouts - left-click to cycle

A single left-click steps through five readouts and wraps around, like a digital wristwatch's mode button. A small tag (POS, LEN, …) sits beside the digits so the current mode is always clear.

TagShowsExample
POSCursor position while idle; the live player time during playback01:32
LENTotal length of the song03:48
REMRemaining time - counts down during playback-02:16
BPMTempo in effect at the current position (live across tempo changes)120
BARMusical position: bar.beat plus the time signature12.3 4/4

Times are shown adaptively: MM:SS for anything under an hour, widening to H:MM:SS only when a song crosses the 60-minute mark. During playback the colon blinks once a second for that media-player feel.

Animation of the cursor-time clock cycling through its readouts (POS, LEN, REM, BPM, BAR) and its colour themes.

Left-click cycles the readout, right-click cycles the colour theme.

Colour themes - right-click to cycle

A right-click on the clock steps through six LED colour palettes, named to echo the app's built-in themes:

The animation above cycles through every colour theme as well as the readouts.

Your choices are remembered Both the readout mode and the colour theme persist across restarts. Pick a mode and a colour once and they come back exactly the same the next time you launch the app.

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