Instruction Manual

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Searching for Events
Editing MIDI Events and Controllers
4. Click OK.
SONAR searches the currently selected events and weeds out those that
do not meet the requirements of the event filter.
Example: Splitting Left-Hand and Right-Hand Parts
Suppose you recorded a keyboard riff on Track 1 but want to split the left
and right hands apart into separate tracks so you can edit them separately.
Suppose that all the right-hand notes are above C4. Here’s how to proceed:
1. Select all of Track 1 by clicking on the track number in the Track view.
2. Choose Edit-Select-By Filter to display the Event Filter dialog box.
3. Click the None button to clear the dialog box.
4. Check the Note checkbox, and enter a minimum value of C4. The
maximum should already be set to C9.
5. Click OK. SONAR selects all the notes from C4 up.
6. Choose Edit-Cut to move the selected notes to the clipboard.
7. Choose Edit-Paste and paste the events to a different track.
Process-Interpolate
The Process-Interpolate command is an extremely flexible way of
manipulating the data parameters of events. It works something like the
search-and-replace function in a word processor but with scaling rather
than simple replacement.
This command uses two event filters. The first event filter lets you set up
your search criteria. The second event filter is used to define the
replacement value ranges. When an event satisfies the search criteria, its
parameters are scaled between the search ranges and the replacement
ranges. This permits transposition, inversion, key signature changes, and
other operations to be accomplished with this one simple command.
In the second Event Filter dialog box, the checkboxes and value ranges for
beats and ticks are ignored. Only the replacement value ranges for the
selected event types are used.
The Process-Interpolate command understands a wild card octave
number in the second event filter to mean, “replace the original note with a
different note in the original octave.” Using octave wild cards for both the
search and replacement event filters lets you, for instance, change all E-
flats to E-naturals, preserving the octave of each note.