Instruction Manual

144 Tutorials
Tutorial 6—Using Groove Clips
1. Select File-New to create a new project.
2. In the New Project File dialog box, enter Tutorial6B in the Name field.
3. Select the Normal template from the template list and click OK.
4. Right-click the Snap to Grid button to open its dialog box, set the
Musical Time duration to Measure, and close the dialog box.
5. Click in the View toolbar to open the Loop Explorer view.
6. In the Explorer view, navigate to the Tutorials folder in the directory
where you installed SONAR.
7. Drag and drop the
BASS.WAV file into the new project at measure 1.
8. Double-click the clip.
The Loop Construction view appears. You see that there is silence at
both the beginning and end of the clip. We are going to slip-edit the clip
so that the clip begins with the attack of the first note and ends as the
last note tails off.
9. Move you cursor to the beginning of the clip.
10. When the blue line appears and the cursor changes to look like this ,
drag the beginning of the clip until you reach the edge of the first rise in
the waveform and release the mouse.
11. Slip-edit the end of the clip until you reach the end of the last note’s
decay. You may need to scroll the scrollbar at the bottom of the Loop
Construction view a little to the right to see the end of the loop.
Note: You can not slip-edit a clip that has its Groove clip characteristics
enabled. You can turn a clip’s Groove clip characteristics on or off
either in the Loop Construction view, or in the Clips pane. In the Clips
pane, right-click the clip and choose Groove-Clip Looping from the
popup menu.