Instruction Manual

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Tutorial 4—Editing MIDI
Editing Notes in the Piano Roll View
SONAR’s Piano Roll view gives you complete control of individual note
properties. Let’s edit a couple of notes.
To Edit Notes in the Piano Roll View
1. Open the Piano Roll view of the first bass clip by double-clicking the
clip. In the Piano Roll view, you may have to use the Up Arrow and
Down Arrow keys on your computer keyboard to display the note data
(the Right and Left Arrow keys scroll the display in the horizontal
direction).
2. Drag the Piano Roll’s Horizontal Zoom control in the lower right corner
of the Notes pane to make the note data large enough for easy editing
(see following picture).
3. In the Piano Roll toolbar, click the dropdown arrow on the Snap to Grid
button to open the Snap to Grid dialog box (Snap to Grid settings
in each view are independent of each other).
4. Make sure the Musical Time check box is selected, and in the window
to the right of it, select Eighth.
5. In the Mode field, make sure that the Move By radio button is selected
and click OK. Now we can only move data in the Piano Roll view by
exact distances of one or more eighth notes.
6. In the Piano Roll toolbar, click the Draw tool to activate it.
7. Find the note that starts at the beginning of measure three and move
the cursor over the beginning of the note so that the cursor becomes a
cross. Drag the beginning of the note to the left by a half beat, and
release the mouse.