Reference Guide

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The Loop Construction view
Working with loops and Groove Clips
• Loop On/Off. Groove Clip enable/disable. When enabled, loop clips in the Track view by
dragging the right side of a clip with your mouse. When disabled, you are able to slip-edit the clip.
• Stretch On/Off. Instructs SONAR to stretch or shrink the clip to fit the project’s tempo. The
Beats in Clip and Original BPM parameters are in the Clip Inspector and Loop Properties
dialog box are used to make the change.
• Loop Properties. Opens the Loop Properties dialog box.
Slice menu
The Slice menu contains the following commands:
• Reset Markers. Restores all automatically generated markers to the original position and
enables all those that were disabled. Manually created markers remain as is.
• Show/Hide Gain Envelope. Toggles on or off the display of a gain envelope.
• Show/Hide Pan Envelope. Toggles on or off the display of a pan envelope.
• Show/Hide Pitch Envelope. Toggles on or off the display of a pitch envelope.
• Next Slice. Moves the slice selection to the next slice in the loop. You can also press the PAGE
DOWN key.
• Previous Slice. Moves the slice selection to the previous slice in the loop. You can also press
the PAGE UP key.
Options menu
The Options menu contains the following commands:
• Auto Slice Preview On/Off. Turns on slice auto preview.
• Auto Slice Preview Loop On/Off. This control is only available if the Enable Slice Auto
Preview option is on. This option loops the slice auto preview.
• Preview Bus. Select the output through which you want to listen to the clip.
Controls
• Preview . Plays the current loop repeatedly. Click again to stop preview.
• Loop. Click the Loop button to loop clips in the Track view by dragging the right side of a clip
with your mouse. When Loop is not on, you are able to slip-edit the clip.
• Resolution. The slice Resolution control sets the resolution for the creation of markers, or the
“slicing” of the looped clip. This control uses the following note durations:
• No Slice
• Whole Note
• 1/2 Note
Note: The settings in the Loop Properties dialog box are also available in the Groove Clip
section in the Clip Inspector.