Markers are moments in time that have labels. You can create any number of markers in your Rosegarden composition, to define particular points that you wish to remember the locations of. Marker positions and labels will be saved in your Rosegarden file.

Markers are shown in the main ruler at the top of each of Rosegarden's editor windows.

To add a new marker, double-click on the marker area (top half) of the ruler to open the marker editor. Make sure Rosegarden's playback pointer (see The Transport) is in the location you want to add the marker, and then click the Add button to add a new marker at the playback position. You can then double-click on the marker's entry in the marker editor window to edit its name or adjust its location.

Click on the text of a marker in the marker ruler to move the playback pointer directly to that marker.

You can set a loop range between two marker positions, by clicking in the area between the markers in the marker ruler with the Shift key pressed.

The quick marker is a special moment in time that can be defined on the fly with a single key (by default Ctrl+1) from the main window (track editor). Once defined it appears as a red line in the loop ruler (it does not appear among other markers, since it does not have a label). At any time when in the track editor you can jump to the quick marker position with a single key (by default simply 1).

A typical use of the quick marker is when you want to record the same bars on different instruments: after setting the quick marker at the first bar of the working interval, it is easy to jump to the quick marker each time you need to record a new part.

Note that the quick marker position is not saved in your Rosegarden file.