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Load Pattern dialog
beat to the left, or half of 2 beats.
• Durations. Choose this option if you want the durations of the selected events to shrink by a
percentage.
By “N” Percent
Fill in the percentage number that you want the selected events to change by, which can be positive
or negative.
Stretch Audio
Choose this option if you want duration of any selected audio to change.
Type (disabled unless Stretch Audio is checked)
This is a SONAR Producer feature only. Choose options based on the source material: single voice
or instrument versus a group of instruments (ensemble or polyphonic), and how long you want to
wait for processing to finish: better quality can take a long time if you’re processing several tracks.
Formant Scaling (disabled unless Stretch Audio is checked)
This is a SONAR Producer feature only. Possible values range from -2.000 to 2.000 octaves.
Formants give a voice its characteristic sound. If you find that changing the length of your audio
changes the timbre too much, you can raise or lower the formant to try and maintain the
characteristics of the sound.
See also:
Stretching and Shrinking Events
Load Pattern dialog
To open the Load Pattern dialog, do one of the following:
• Right-click in the Step Sequencer toolbar and select Load Pattern from the pop-up menu.
• Open the Step Sequencer and press press CTRL+ALT+L.
Use the Load Pattern dialog box to load an existing step sequencer pattern into a project.
Look in
Select the directory in which SONAR stores the pattern that you want to load.
File name
Type or select the filename of the pattern that you want to load.
Files of type
The Load Pattern dialog can only load the Step Sequencer Patterns file type, which has the
extension .ssp.