Instruction Manual

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Selecting and Editing Events
Editing MIDI Events and Controllers
To Stretch or Shrink Using Percentages
1. Select the events you want to change.
2. Choose Process-Length to display the Length dialog box.
3. Choose to change the Start Times and/or Durations of selected notes
by checking the boxes.
4. If you want to stretch selected audio clips, check the Stretch Audio box.
When this checkbox is enabled, the following two options become available:
• Type—choose the type of audio data you're stretching. 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. If you find
that changing the length of your audio changes the timbre too
much, you can raise or lower the formant to try and maintain the
characteristics of the sound
5. Use the spinners or type in the desired percent change in length.
6. Click OK when you are done.
SONAR modifies the length of selected events.
To Stretch or Shrink to a Specific Length
1. Select the events you want to change.
2. Choose Process-Fit to Time to display the Fit to Time dialog box.