Instruction Manual

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Changing Tempos

Arranging

Sometimes you don’t want to adjust the speed of your audio. Here are

some examples:

• If your project contains background music and a voice-over, you might

want to change the tempo of the background music without altering the

voice-over.

• If you’re trying to modify the speed of some MIDI tracks to match a

sampled drum groove, you want to leave the audio unchanged.

When you change the tempo of your project, clips having stretching

enabled change tempo along with the project, while those that do not have

stretching enabled do not. For more information on stretch-enabling clips,

see Enable Stretching.

Tempos set when the clock source is set to MIDI Sync do not have any

effect, because SONAR follows the external tempo. For more information,

see Synchronizing Your Gear.

See:

Using the Tempo Toolbar

Using the Tempo Commands

Using the Tempo View

Using the Tempo Toolbar

The Tempo toolbar displays the current tempo and lets you change the

tempo as shown below:

A.Click to insert a tempo change B. Tempo ratio buttons C. Click to enter a new

tempo

When you enter a new tempo directly in the toolbar, you change the most

recent tempo setting in the project.

The tempo ratio buttons temporarily change the speed of playback, without

affecting the actual tempo that is stored with your project (see Note, below).