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Tutorial 4—Editing MIDI
Tutorials
Next Step: Copying Clips with Drag and Drop.
Copying Clips with Drag and Drop
The first clip in the bass track is two measures long; we can easily drag-
copy it to make it eight measures long. When we drag-copy some of the
clips, we can make them into linked clips. When you edit a linked clip,
SONAR performs the exact same edits on all other clips that the clip is
linked to.
To Copy Clips Using Drag and Drop
1. In the Track view toolbar, click the Snap to Grid button’s down arrow to
open the Snap to Grid dialog box.
2. Make sure that the Musical Time radio button is selected, and in the list
to the right of it, select Measure.
3. In the Mode field, select Move By and click OK. Now we can only move
clips in the Clips pane by distances of an exact measure or measures.
4. While holding down the Ctrl key, drag the first clip in the bass track to
the right and release the mouse when the start of the clip is at measure
three. The Drag and Drop Options dialog box appears. Click OK—
SONAR places a copy of the clip in measures three through four. Ctrl-
dragging a clip copies and moves it, while dragging without holding
down any extra keys moves a clip without making a copy of it.
5. Now let’s make a linked clip copy of the new clip in measure three: Ctrl-
drag the clip from measure three to measure five. When the Drag and
Drop Options dialog box appears, click the Copy Entire Clips as Linked
Clips checkbox and click OK. SONAR places a linked clip copy into
measures five and six. The two linked clips have dotted outlines to
show they are linked.
6. Make another linked copy of one of the linked clips and place it in
measures seven and eight. Because this copy overlaps the clip that’s in
measure 9, make sure that the Blend Old and New option is checked in
the Drag and Drop dialog box. Because none of the notes in the two
clips overlap, blending the two clips does not change any of their data.
Now you have linked clip copies in measures three through eight: when you
edit any of these three clips, SONAR performs the exact same edits on the
other two.
Next Step: Editing Notes in the Piano Roll View.