Reference Guide

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Global Options dialog—Editing
Dialog Reference
• How you want drag and drop to work (see drag and drop options below)
• Whether you want SONAR to automatically add a crossfade between two audio clips that overlap
(see general options below)
Drag and Drop options:
Choose from the following drag and drop options:
Copy Entire Clips as Linked Clips. When you copy an entire clip, choosing this option causes
the new clip and the clip that you copied it from to be Linked clips.
What to do with existing material. The fields in this section deal with the situation that occurs
when you try to drag some data to a place in a track that already has some data.
• Blend Old and New. Choosing this option tells SONAR to mix the new data with the old, with
the following option:
• Replace Old with New. Choosing this option tells SONAR to delete the old data, with the
following option:
• Delete Whole Measures. Choosing this option tells SONAR to delete the old data up to the
next measure line, regardless of whether the new data fills the space up to the next measure.
• Slide Over Old to Make Room. Choosing this option tells SONAR to slide the old data either
forward or backward in the track to make room for the new data. with the following option:
• Align to Measures. Choosing this option tells SONAR to slide the old data up to the next
measure line, regardless of whether the new data fills the space up to the next measure.
Ask This Every Time
Choosing this option causes the Drag and Drop Options dialog box to appear every time you drag
some data.
Clips options
Choose from these clip editing options:
Crossfade Audio clips upon overlap. Choosing this option tells SONAR to automatically smooth
out any volume differences between overlapping audio clips, nondestructively. If you choose this
option to drag clips, and then disable it to drag some other clips, the clips with the crossfades retain
their crossfades.
Select all clips in clip groups. Choosing this option causes all clips in a group to be selected
when you select any clip in the group.
Selection after single split. This list lets you specify what is selected after a clip is split into two
parts:
• Left portion (default). Only the left portion is selected.
• Right portion. Only the right portion is selected.
• Both portions. Both the left and right portions are selected.
• None. Neither portion is selected.