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MIDI Effects (MIDI Plug-ins)
Editing MIDI Events and Controllers
While MCI commands can be used to play Wave files, these files are played
at their normal speed and are not necessarily synchronized with MIDI or
other audio data. By contrast, Wave audio clips are played in lock-step
synchronization with MIDI and other audio data.
For complete documentation of Windows MCI commands, search for MCI
on the Microsoft World Wide Web site (www.microsoft.com).
MIDI Effects (MIDI Plug-ins)
SONAR provides the ability to use plug-in MIDI effects. Using plug-in effects
is similar to using the MIDI processing commands off-line. The overall
procedure is as follows:
• Select the MIDI data to be affected.
• Choose the effect you want from the Process-MIDI Effects menu or
from the popup menu’s MIDI Effects menu.
• Set effect parameters (or select a preset if you’ve made one for this
purpose).
• Click Audition to preview the music with the effect applied.
• Click OK to apply the effect to the selected MIDI data.
If you're not happy with the result, choose Edit-Undo before doing any
additional work.
MIDI effects can be applied to whole or partial clips. For example, you can
apply an echo to just one note.
MIDI effects can also be applied to MIDI tracks in real time (during
playback) in the Track and Console views. Unlike any of the processing
described so far, using effects in real time is non-destructive. This means
that the MIDI data itself is not modified.
Note: Offline effects may cause your MIDI events to grow in size. For
example, when you apply echo, the clip may need to grow to accommodate
the tail end of the echo.
See:
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