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Tutorial 4—Editing MIDI

Tutorials

A. Beat 1 of Measure 3 B. Drag horizontal zoom C. Drag note from here

SONAR moves the note to the left by a half beat and lengthens the note

by a half beat, and also performs the same edits on the identical notes

that are at the beginnings of the other two linked clips.

8. Close the Piano Roll view when you finish editing.

If you want to unlink clips when you’re through editing them, select the

clips you want to unlink (in the Track view), right-click one of them, and

choose Unlink from the Clips pane popup menu. Select Independent, Not

Linked At All in the Unlink Clips dialog box and click OK.

When you move the Draw tool over a note, it changes into one of 3 different

editing tools, depending on what part of the note you move it over:

• If you move the Draw tool over the beginning or end of a note, the Draw

tool changes into a cross. When you drag one end of a note with the

cross icon, the other end of the note stays put, thereby changing the

duration of the note as you move the opposite end.

• If you move the Draw tool just inside the beginning of a note, the Draw

tool changes into a horizontal, double-ended arrow. When you drag the