Instruction Manual

994 New Features in SONAR 7
Flexible Piano Roll Tools
When converting a MIDI clip to a Step Sequencer clip, the resulting clip will
essentially be a quantized version of the original clip. The start of the clips
will be the same and the first notes will be the same. The only thing that will
possibly be different is the length of the clip (due to quantizing) and the
notes in it may be moved slightly so they fit into the steps.
If a MIDI Groove clip contains any variations between different iterations,
each unique iteration will be converted to a separate Step Sequencer clip.
See:
MIDI Groove Clips
Flexible Piano Roll Tools
SONAR 7 introduces several changes to the Piano Roll tool behavior in
order to reduce the need to continuously switch tools during normal
operation.
Like earlier versions of SONAR, SONAR 7 has three different Piano Roll
mouse tools. However, the three tools are no longer hard-coded to Select,
Draw and Erase. Each tool can be customized to perform any available
mouse action. There can be as much or as little overlap in functionality as
you want between the tools.
Don’t care for some of SONAR’s default Piano Roll tool behaviors? No
problem, simply re-assign the tools to suit your preferred editing style.
There are approximately 20 different mouse actions that the Piano Roll
tools can perform, such as selecting, drawing, erasing, slip-editing,
transposing, etc. It’s difficult to make a single tool that can perform all of
these actions, so SONAR allows you to customize the Piano Roll tools to
suit your own editing requirements.
There are three mouse buttons (left, middle and right) and three modifier
keys (Ctrl, Shift and Alt) that can be used in any combination. Your custom
Piano Roll tool assignments can be saved as presets and apply to both the
Piano Roll view and the inline Piano Roll.
See:
The PRV Tool Configuration Dialog
To Configure a Mouse Action