Instruction Manual

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Tutorial 6—Using Groove Clips
1. In the Explorer view, navigate to the Tutorials folder in the directory
where you installed SONAR.
2. Drag and drop the
DRUMS.WAV file into the new project below your bass
track at measure 1.
3. Double-click the clip.
4. Click the Enable Looping button .
SONAR automatically slices the clip and assigns in a number of beats.
Notice that SONAR has sliced this clip at eighth notes and at the
beginning of some transients. This has dramatic transients. For clips
like this, transient markers work best.
The clip is now a Groove clip, and it looks like the following picture. You
can click the zoom buttons in the lower right corner to get a better view.
The markers in the Loop Construction view are used to tell SONAR where
to preserve timing. The idea is to preserve the clip while being able to
change the tempo. When a clip has a lot of transients, as this one does, it is
a good idea to make sure that the slicing markers fall at the beginning of the
transients, thus preserving their timing. This clip has several markers which
can be fine tuned to give better results. Let’s move some markers to better
preserve the timing of this clip.
To Fine Tune the Slicing Markers in a Groove Clip
1. Identify the markers which are close to the beginning of a transient.
An example of transients that should be moved: