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Flexible Piano Roll tools
Editing MIDI Events and Continuous Controllers (CC)
Flexible Piano Roll tools
SONAR has three different Piano Roll mouse tools. Each tool can be customized to perform any
available mouse action. There can be as much or as little overlap in functionality as you want
between the tools.
Don’t care for some of SONAR’s default Piano Roll tool behaviors? No problem, simply re-assign the
tools to suit your preferred editing style.
There are approximately 20 different mouse actions that the Piano Roll tools can perform, such as
selecting, drawing, erasing, slip-editing, transposing, etc. It’s difficult to make a single tool that can
perform all of these actions, so SONAR allows you to customize the Piano Roll tools to suit your own
editing requirements.
There are three mouse buttons (left, middle and right) and three modifier keys (CTRL, SHIFT and
ALT) that can be used in any combination. Your custom Piano Roll tool assignments can be saved
as presets and apply to both the Piano Roll view and the inline Piano Roll.
See:
The PRV Tool Configuration dialog
To configure a Mouse Action
Mouse Location
Tool Action
Default PRV tool assignments
The PRV Tool Configuration dialog
You use the PRV Tool Configuration dialog to configure the Piano Roll tools. In order to assign a
specific action to a Piano Roll tool, you must specify the following:
• Piano Roll tool. Specify PRV Tool 1 ( ), PRV Tool 2 () or PRV Tool 3 ().
• Mouse button. Specify the left, middle or right mouse button.
• Keyboard modifier key(s) (optional). Specify the CTRL, SHIFT or ALT key, or any
combination of the three.
• Mouse location (context). Specify one of the seven clickable mouse locations (see “Mouse
Location” on page 459).
• Tool action. Specify one of the many available mouse actions (see “Tool Action” on page 460).
The objective is to map each of the contexts (mouse locations) to a tool action.