Instruction Manual

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MIDI Groove Clips
Using Loops
SONAR transposes each groove clip that has the Follow Project Pitch
option enabled by the difference between the clip’s Reference Note and the
current Project Pitch. Your project’s pitch changes wherever you insert a
pitch marker. If you don’t insert any pitch markers, your project stays at its
default pitch.
To Create a Pitch Marker
1. In the Track view, right-click in the Time Ruler.
2. Select Create a Marker from the menu that appears.
3. The Marker dialog appears.
4. In the Groove Clip Pitch dropdown, select a pitch.
5. Click OK.
To Move a Pitch Marker
• Click and drag a pitch marker to a new location on the Time Ruler.
MIDI Groove Clips
MIDI Groove clips are MIDI clips that you can roll out like audio Groove
clips, and you can also choose to have SONAR transpose MIDI Groove
clips when your project reaches a pitch marker.
You can change any MIDI clip into a MIDI Groove clip (or back into a
regular MIDI clip) by selecting the clip and using the Edit-Groove Clip
Looping command. A MIDI clip that has its Groove clip feature activated
appears with beveled edges in the Clips pane.
Here are some other features of MIDI Groove clips:
• You can roll out copies in either direction (just like audio Groove clips).
The Snap-to-Grid setting determines what beat boundaries (if any) you
can roll to.
• You can edit individual repetitions without altering any other copies
(unlike audio Groove clips). Note: If you then roll the edge of your MIDI
Groove clip back over the area you edited, you will lose your edits.
• All new repetitions are based on the first clip (just like audio Groove
clips). However, if you split a repetition from its original source clip, the
repetition becomes independent: if you copy this clip, SONAR treats it
as an original clip.
• You can import MIDI Groove clips from the Import MIDI dialog, the Loop
Explorer view, and by dragging and dropping from the Windows