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Tutorial 2—Recording MIDI
Tutorials
4. When you finish recording, click the Stop button in the Transport toolbar
or press the Spacebar.
Alternatively, you could record your next attempt on a new track. That way
you can keep all the takes and select the best one later (or combine the
best parts of each!). If you record on a new track, be sure to arm the new
track for recording and to disarm the previous track. See Loop Recording
for a convenient way to record multiple takes.
Next Step: Saving Your Work.
Saving Your Work
When you have something you’d like to keep, you can save the project by
doing the following:
1. Choose File-Save As.
2. In the File Name box, type a new file name, such as my project.
3. Click OK.
SONAR saves the project under the new name. From now on, you can click
the Save button to save this project.
Next Step: Loop Recording.
Loop Recording
If you'd like to record several takes successively, you can set up SONAR to
loop over the entire project, or just some section of it. SONAR will record a
new take during each loop, storing that take in a new clip. You can set
SONAR to place each clip in a new track or to pile all clips in one track.
Let's try recording a few takes of the first four measures of a project, placing
each take in a new track.
Setting Up Looping
First, let's set up SONAR to loop over the first four measures:
1. Click the down arrow in the Snap to Grid combo button to open the
Snap to Grid dialog box. If the Snap to Grid button is not visible in the
Track view toolbar, use your mouse to drag the vertical splitter between
the Track pane and the Clips pane to the right.
2. In the Snap to Grid dialog box, click the Musical Time button and select
Measure from the list of durations. In the Mode field, select Move To,
and close the dialog box.