Reference Guide

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Editing MIDI Events and Continuous Controllers (CC)
Adding and Editing Notes in the Piano Roll
See:
Clip Muting and Isolating (Clip Soloing)
Silencing tracks
Flexible Piano Roll tools
Erase tool behavior
The Erase tool marks events for deletion instead of automatically deleting them. When you touch
events with the Erase tool, the events are not actually deleted until you release the mouse button.
Events that are marked for deletion are temporarily drawn in a different color. You can choose to
abort the delete operation by pressing Esc before you release the mouse button.
Note hit testing improvements
Note events are painted in chronological order. Note events that are later in time will be at a higher z-
order (toward the top) than earlier Note events. As a result, the end time of a Note event may be
obscured by a later Note event.
Example 1. Two overlapping Note events. It is not clear where the first Note event ends.
Example 2. The same two overlapping Note events shown as different pitches.
When multiple Note events exist at the mouse location, SONAR will prioritize the best candidate
Note event by comparing the mouse location’s proximity to the left and right edges of each Note
event. When the best candidate is found among the overlapping Note events, SONAR will
temporarily show the full duration of that candidate Note event while the mouse is hovering over it.
This allows you to alter the right edge of the earlier Note event without having to temporarily move
the later Note event out of the way.