Reference Guide

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Editing MIDI Events and Continuous Controllers (CC)
Changing the Timing of a Recording
by selecting the pattern and choosing a preset from the Preset field. To delete a group of settings,
select the group from the Preset field and click the Delete button.
Defining a Groove
To use the groove quantize feature, you must create or choose a small snippet of music—the groove
pattern—for SONAR to use as the timing and accent reference. You can use either of the following:
• A track, clip, or portion of a clip stored on the Windows clipboard
• A groove stored in a SONAR groove file
Any MIDI data that you place onto the Windows clipboard can be used as a groove pattern. With a
carefully defined groove pattern, you can give an old project an entirely new feel. If you like the
groove pattern you have created, you can save it to a groove file.
Groove files can store one or more groove patterns. SONAR supports two types of groove files:
• DNA™ grooves, which contain only timing information but are compatible with some other MIDI
sequencer software products
• SONAR’s native groove format, which stores timing, duration, and velocity information and can
handle longer patterns and longer gaps between quantization points
You can add groove patterns to these files from the Windows clipboard, edit existing patterns, or
delete patterns you do not want to keep. There is no limit to the number of groove patterns that can
be stored in a single file. You can organize your grooves into several files or keep them all together
in a single file. Groove files have an extension of .grv.
A groove pattern can be as short or long as you like. If the groove pattern is shorter than the material
to be quantized, the pattern will be repeated as many times as necessary.
To Define a New Groove
1. Select the music that defines the groove using any of the selection tools and commands.
2. Choose Edit > Copy to place the music onto the Windows clipboard.
You can now use the Groove Quantize command with the clipboard as the “Groove File.”
To Save a Groove Pattern
1. Select the music that defines the groove using any of the selection tools and commands.
2. Choose Edit > Copy to place the music onto the Windows clipboard.
3. Choose Process > Groove Quantize to display the Groove Quantize dialog box.
4. Choose the Clipboard as the groove “Groove File.”
5. Click the Define button to display the Define Groove dialog box.