Instruction Manual

480 Editing MIDI Events and Controllers
Searching for Events
Searching for an Event
The Go-Search command is used to find the next event (searching forward
from the Now time) that meets the criteria you lay out in an event filter.
Once you have found the first such event, you can find the next event that
meets the criteria using the Go-Search Again command (or by pressing
F3).
To Search for an Event
1. Choose Go-Search to display the Event Filter dialog box.
2. Set up the event filter to find the events you want.
3. Click OK.
SONAR finds the next event that meets the criteria and sets the Now time
to the start time of that event. To find the next occurrence, press F3 or
choose Go-Search Again.
Selecting Events
The Edit-Select-By Filter command is used to refine a selection by
applying an event filter to an initial selection. You can use this command
any number of times to refine the selection even further. Before using this
command, use any of the selection commands and tools to create an initial
set of selected event. You can use the Edit-Select-All command to select
all events in the current view.
The Track view cannot display individual selected events. As a result, the
Edit-Select-By Filter command will not necessarily change the
appearance of the Track view. SONAR applies the event filter rule, but the
change is not visible. However, once you change the selection in any way
(for example, by clicking on a track number or by clicking in the Time
Ruler), the effects of the event filter are erased. If you want to use the filter,
you must choose Edit-Select-By Filter again and click OK to use the same
filter values.
Note: The shading of a clip in the Track view indicates how many of the
events in the clip are selected. If the clip is shown in solid black, all events
in the clip are selected. If a portion of a clip is shown in medium gray, all the
events in that time range are selected. If the clip is shown in light gray, only
some of the events in the shaded time range are selected.
To Select Events Using the Event Filter
1. First, select an initial set of tracks, clips, or events.
2. Choose Edit-Select-By Filter to display the Event Filter dialog box.
3. Set up the event filter to find the events you want.