Instruction Manual

452 Editing MIDI Events and Controllers
Selecting and Editing Events
5. Choose Transpose Audio if you want to pitch-shift selected audio
clips. If you check this checkbox. SONAR transposes any selected audio data
up or down, but only by half-steps, not diatonically. When this checkbox is
enabled, the following two options become available:
• Type—choose the type of audio data you're transposing. Choose
options based on the source material: single voice or instrument
versus a group of instruments (ensemble or polyphonic), and how
long you want to wait for processing to finish: better quality can
take a long time if you're processing several tracks.
• Formant scaling—possible values range from -2.000 to 2.000
octaves. Formants give a voice its characteristic sound. You can
use the Formant Scaling value to offset the pitch transposition
you're applying. For example, if you're transposing the pitch down,
you can raise the formant to try and maintain the characteristics of
the sound.
6. Click OK when you are done.
SONAR transposes the selected events.
Shifting Events in Time
The Track view lets you move entire clips forward or backward in time by
using drag and drop editing or by changing the start time of selected clips.
The Process-Slide command is slightly more flexible—you can use it to
shift individual events and markers (or selected events and markers) either
forward or backward in time. This has an effect that is similar to the Time+
parameter in the Track view. However, the Process-Slide command
modifies the time stored with each event, while the Time+ parameter simply
applies a temporary change during playback.
You can also use the Process-Slide command to move markers located
within the selection. If you have selected any locked markers, SONAR will
ask whether they should slide, too.
To Shift Events in Time
1. Select the events and/or markers you want to shift.
2. Choose Process-Slide to display the Slide dialog box.
3. Check the types of event you want to slide (events and/or
markers).
4. Enter the number of measures, ticks, seconds, frames or samples to
slide. Enter a negative number to shift material earlier. Note that you
cannot slide any event earlier than 1:01:000. For example, if the current