Reference Guide

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Searching for Events

Editing MIDI Events and Continuous Controllers (CC)

To Choose How SONAR Handles Non-scale Notes

1. Open the Snap Settings dialog by clicking the drop-down arrow in the Scale menu, and choosing

Snap Settings from the menu that appears. You can also use the Tracks > Snap to Scale >

Scales > Snap Settings command, or the right-click menu in the Track List pane of the Piano

Roll view.

2. Choose one of the following options:

• Adjust to Next, Higher Note. If you choose this option, SONAR moves any non-scale note

that you move to the next higher note in the selected scale.

• Adjust to Previous, Lower Note. If you choose this option, SONAR moves any non-scale

note that you move to the previous, lower note in the selected scale.

• Adjust to Nearest Note. If you choose this option, SONAR moves any non-scale note that

you move to the note that is closest in pitch in the selected scale.

Searching for Events

The events in a project have many different parameters. For example, all MIDI notes have a

channel, starting time, pitch, velocity, and duration. Controllers have a controller number and value.

SONAR makes it simple to find, select, and modify events that have certain values for specific

attributes.

Here are some of the things you can do and the commands that you would use to do them:

These capabilities can help you find problem spots or errors in a project or make systematic

changes to events that have particular attributes. All of these capabilities rely on the use of an event

filter, which lets you choose the types of events you want to work with and the range of values in

which you are interested.

See:

Event Filters

Action Command

Search through a project to find the first event that has specific attributes,

and then search again to find the next such event

Go > Search, Go > Search Next

Select all the events in a project that have the specified attributes Edit > Select > By Filter

Modify an existing selection to keep only those events that have the

specified attributes

Edit > Select > By Filter

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