Reference Guide

Tutorial 6 – Editing your music
While working on your music, you are likely to find that editing is a major part of the song creation
process. Before people started making music on computers, all of the editing was done by cutting tape
with a razor blade and piecing it together. You can imagine how difficult it could become. In SONAR, you
can actually select a part of your music with the mouse and delete/copy/paste/move it all very easily. This
Tutorial will introduce SONAR's tools for making some common edits and offer a few tips to make it faster
and more fun.
See:
Selection
Moving clips
Splitting Clips
Cropping Clips
Undo and Redo
Selection
One of the most important things to understand in order to edit your music successfully is selection. Once
you become familiar with selecting, the rest is easy. You typically need to have the appropriate parts
selected in order to make edits on them.
There are two aspects of selection:
• Time Range
• Tracks
Let's say you'd like to delete the second measure of a certain track. The time range specifies that the edit
will need to occur between measures 2 and 3. The track selection specifies what track's clips will be
deleted, while leaving its surrounding tracks unchanged.
Let's explore some different ways to do this in a sample project. All of the tools described are available in
the Track View toolbar, which is located directly above the tracks in the Track View. For a complete
description of all of the tools in the Track view toolbar, see “Track View Toolbar” on page 1439.