Memory locations are great for… well, keeping a specific location in…memory. But, they have some other cool uses.

You can color code your regions based on your markers, which is a nice way to visually distinguish between sections of a song, or different scenes in a film. To do this, place markers at the beginning of the sections that you want to distinguish. Then, in preferences->display, under “Default Region Color Coding:” select “Marker Locations” and voila!

Another cool use for markers are the non-location based markers functionality. Markers can not only store a location, but also:

-Zoom Settings

-Pre/Post Roll Times

-Track Show/Hide

-Track Heights

-Group Enables

-Window Configurations

This is fairly self-explanatory, but this comes in handy when you need to switch any of these parameters quickly. The easiest way to do this is using the marker access shortcut, which is [period key -> marker number -> period key] So you could, for example, set up your first marker in your session to be all tracks shown, in mini view, and then you can quickly show all tracks by pressing [ .  1 . ] (note: This needs to be done on the number pad [the period and the number])

In your memory locations window, it keeps track of which of these functions are being used in a particular marker.