Instruction Manual

128 Tutorials
Tutorial 4—Editing MIDI
beginning of a note with this icon, the other end of the note moves with
the beginning of the note, thereby keeping the duration of the note
constant.
• If you move the Draw tool over the middle of a note, the Draw tool
changes into a vertical, double-ended arrow. Use this tool to drag the
note up or down in pitch.
Next Step: Slip-editing.
Slip-editing
Now let’s take advantage of one of the most convenient features of
SONAR: slip-editing. Slip-editing lets you drag the beginning or ending
borders of a clip to hide the notes or other MIDI data that are in the area
that you drag through (slip-editing also works on audio clips). SONAR does
not delete these notes or data, but does not play them either. As soon as
you drag the clip borders to display the data again, SONAR plays them
again. slip-editing is a very fast and convenient way to try out different
sounds without destroying any data. You can also leave the clip borders
unchanged and only drag the data that’s within the clip. This changes the
rhythmic placement of data without changing the clip’s borders.
To Slip-edit TUTORIAL4.CWP
1. Drag the horizontal zoom controls in the Clips pane so that a space of
about 2 measures fills up the Clips pane.
2. Click the down arrow in the Snap to Grid combo button to open the
Snap to Grid dialog box, change the Musical Time resolution to Eighth,
make sure Move By is selected in the Mode field, and close the dialog.
Now we can only drag the borders of clips by units of eighth notes.
3. In the organ track in the Clips pane, move the cursor over the right end
of the first clip until the blue vertical line (clip handle) appears. Drag the
right border to the left until the MIDI data at the end of the clip is hidden.
Now you can’t hear those notes.
Hide this region
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