Instruction Manual

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Step Recording
Recording
With pattern recording, you define a pattern that indicates where the rests
appear in the pattern. SONAR will then skip over the rests automatically, so
you don’t need to click the Advance button at all.
SONAR displays patterns as a combination of digits (which represent beats
that contain notes) and dots (which represent beats that contain rests). The
pattern described previously looks like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 . .
Here is another example:
1 2 . 4
This pattern automatically skips over every third beat; SONAR interprets
this pattern as “one, two, rest, four.”
Here is one final example based on 4/4 time, with a step size of eighth-note
triplets (twelve steps per measure):
1 2 3 4 . 6 7 . 9 0 . 2
No matter how you enter a pattern, SONAR displays the digits in sequence,
with periods replacing digits at each step where a rest would occur. You can
create patterns with up to 64 steps.
To Use Pattern-Based Step Recording
1. Choose Transport-Step Record to display the Step Record dialog box.
2. Set the insertion point where you want to start recording.
3. Click in the Pattern field.
4. Press any number key to indicate a beat at which notes will be played.
5. Press the Spacebar, period, or the letter r to indicate a beat on which
there is a rest.
6. When the pattern is complete, click elsewhere in the dialog box.
7. Step record as before.
From now on, after you record each step, SONAR automatically advances
past all rests to the next step on which notes will be played. If you change
step sizes while recording, the size of each rest changes also. To stop
pattern-based step recording, simply delete the pattern from the Pattern
box. SONAR stores up to 10 patterns in the Pattern field.