Markers in Orbit Pro: The Most Overlooked Tool in Your Immersive Toolbox

Markers are one of those features most people don’t think about — but they’re genuinely powerful. Not just for QC, but for keeping your session organised, or for leaving notes to your clients or whoever you’re working with. Orbit Pro’s marker system takes that idea and pushes it somewhere actually useful for immersive work, so I wanted to walk through it properly.

Adding markers

The basics are exactly as quick as they should be. Markers drop wherever the playhead is — there’s a nice shortcut for it (Shift-M) — and each one gets a title, a comment, and a colour. Drop a general marker anywhere on the timeline, write a quick note, pick a colour, hit create, and it shows up in the marker list at the side of your session. That’s your standard whole-timeline marker, and honestly that alone is worth using more than most people do.

But that’s not the interesting bit.

Linking markers to objects

Here’s the part that changes things: markers can be linked to individual tracks, channels, and objects.

Think about what that means for an immersive mix. You’ve got an object flying around your space and you want to leave a note on that object — maybe it’d sit better on the right instead of the left, maybe it needs a little more height, whatever you want it to do. Now you can say so, directly.

Say the piano’s sitting too high in the space. Shift-M, add a marker, title it “the piano is too high”, drop a comment — “move the piano down by 50%” — then search for “piano”, link the left and right piano objects, and hit create. That marker is now attached to those two objects specifically, and the marker list shows you exactly what it’s linked to.

Getting around your session

Markers aren’t just notes — they’re navigation. From the marker list you can jump straight to any marker and play from there, so working through a list of QC notes becomes: jump, listen, fix, next. When you’re deep in a session, that’s the difference between actually addressing every note and hoping you caught them all.

Exporting: CSV and the PDF report

Here’s where it all pays off. You can export your marker list as a CSV — handy on its own. But the real one is the full PDF export.

Go to File → Export PDF and Orbit generates a proper report on your session, loudness measurement included. Scroll down and your markers are all there: names, comments, and which objects each one is linked to. Keep scrolling and you’ll see the markers plotted directly on the objects themselves, with their linked timecode.

So the note “the piano is too high” doesn’t just sit in a list — you can see exactly where it lands on the piano objects, at exactly the right moment. Send that to a client or a collaborator and they can see precisely what you mean without ever opening a session.

Why this matters

You might have 80 channels in an immersive mix. Being able to track where all those objects are — and hold a comment on each individual one — is a big deal. It keeps your session organised, and it makes sure you’re getting the most out of your QC process, whether the notes are for you, your client, or the next person to touch the mix.

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