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Arranging and editing
Arranging Clips
stays constant, and its M:B:T position shifts.
6. Click OK when you are done.
SONAR adjusts the clip to the values you chose.
To Copy Clips Using Drag and Drop
1. Select the clips you want to copy.
2. Enable the snap grid, if desired.
3. Position the mouse over one of the selected clips.
4. Press and hold the CTRL key and click and hold the left mouse button. A rectangle is displayed
around the selected clips.
5. Drag the clips to the new location, and release the mouse button.
6. If necessary, choose the options you want from the Drag and Drop Options dialog box, and click
OK.
SONAR copies the clips to their new location.
To Copy Clips Using Copy and Paste
1. Select the clips you want to copy.
2. Choose Edit > Copy to display the Copy dialog box.
3. Choose the options you want and click OK. SONAR copies the clips to the Windows clipboard.
4. Click in the Track pane to set the current track to be the one where clips should be pasted.
5. Set the Now time to be the time the clips should be pasted.
6. Choose Edit > Paste to display the Paste dialog box.
7. Choose the options you want and click OK.
SONAR copies the clips to their new location.
Note: The length of a clip may also change when you change the tempo—audio clips maintain
their absolute (SMPTE) length, while a MIDI clip will follow the value in the Time Base field. If a
MIDI clip is set to use musical time, the clip maintains its M:B:T length. If a MIDI clip is set to use
absolute time, the clip maintains its absolute length.
Note: The Snap Offset field is for audio clips only. The value of this field is the snap offset of
the selected clip, in samples. When you set a snap offset value for a clip, and then drag the clip,
the left edge of the clip does not snap to the current snap resolution--the clip snaps to a point on
the clip that is the distance from the left edge of the clip to the snap offset value. For example,
if you set the snap resolution to move to a measure, and the snap offset of a clip to 1500
samples, when you drag the clip, instead of the left edge of the clip moving to a measure line,
the spot on the clip that's 1500 samples right of the beginning of the clip moves to the measure
line.