Instruction Manual

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Changing the Timing of a Recording
Editing MIDI Events and Controllers
6. Click Audition if you want to hear how the quantization will sound; press
Stop to stop auditioning the change.
7. Make adjustments as necessary.
8. Optionally, type a name in the preset field (located at the top of the
dialog box) and click the Save button to save your settings.
9. Click OK when you are done.
SONAR quantizes the selected MIDI information and audio clips. You can
use Undo to restore the material to its original state. If you saved your
settings, you can apply them to any pattern you want by selecting the
pattern and choosing a preset from the preset field. To delete a group of
settings, select the group from the preset field and click the Delete button.
Defining a Groove
To use the groove quantize feature, you must create or choose a small
snippet of music—the groove pattern—for SONAR to use as the timing and
accent reference. You can use either of the following:
• A track, clip, or portion of a clip stored on the Windows clipboard
• A groove stored in a SONAR groove file
Any MIDI data that you place onto the Windows clipboard can be used as a
groove pattern. With a carefully defined groove pattern, you can give an old
project an entirely new feel. If you like the groove pattern you have created,
you can save it to a groove file.
Groove files can store one or more groove patterns. SONAR supports two
types of groove files:
• DNA™ grooves, which contain only timing information but are
compatible with some other MIDI sequencer software products
• SONAR’s native groove format, which stores timing, duration, and
velocity information and can handle longer patterns and longer gaps
between quantization points
You can add groove patterns to these files from the Windows clipboard, edit
existing patterns, or delete patterns you do not want to keep. There is no
limit to the number of groove patterns that can be stored in a single file. You
can organize your grooves into several files or keep them all together in a
single file. Groove files have an extension of .
GRV.
A groove pattern can be as short or long as you like. If the groove pattern is
shorter than the material to be quantized, the pattern will be repeated as
many times as necessary.