Reference Guide

1402 Cyclone
Using Cyclone
• Drag a loop into Cyclone from SONAR‘s Clips pane or Media Browser view.
To audition loops
• Select a loop in the Loop bin, and then click Cyclone’s Play button.
To play loops
1. Assign a loop to a pad or pads (see “To assign a loop to a pad” on page 1402).
2. Select the pad or pads you want to play by clicking on them.
3. Click the Preview button to play the selected pads.
If the Loop button for that pad is depressed the loop plays indefinitely; you can stop it by clicking
the Pad again.
If the Loop button is not depressed, the loop stops when it reaches the end of its original length.
You can stop it before then by clicking the Pad.
You can also trigger the Pads with a MIDI controller, or with recorded MIDI data.
To play a loop in Latch mode
1. Assign a loop to a Pad (see “To assign a loop to a pad” on page 1402).
2. In the Pad Editor, select the track you want to loop in Latch mode.
3. In the Pad Inspector, click the Latch control to enable it. The Latch control indicator appears
green when enabled.
4. Click the mouse on the pad to start the loop playing.
5. Click the mouse on the pad again to stop playing.
The loop stops playing as soon as you release the mouse button.
To assign a loop to a pad
• Drag a loop from the Loop bin to a Pad.
OR
• Click a folder icon that’s on a particular Pad that you want to load a loop into. When the Open
dialog box appears, select a loop and click Open. Cyclone loads the loop into both the Pad where
you clicked the folder icon and the Loop bin.
OR
• Drag a loop onto a Pad from SONAR‘s Clips pane or Media Browser view.
You can assign one loop per Pad.
Note: ACIDized and Riff Wave files imported into Cyclone can not be more than 64 beats long.
Regular wave files are limited to 30 seconds. Cyclone does not support 8-bit files.