Reference Guide

668 Working with loops and Groove Clips

MIDI Groove Clips

For details, see Root Note and “Saving Groove Clips as Wave files/ACIDized Wave files” on page

665.

See:

“Creating and editing Groove Clips” on page 661

“MIDI Groove Clips” on page 668

MIDI Groove Clips

MIDI Groove clips are MIDI clips that you can roll out like audio Groove clips, and you can also

choose to have SONAR transpose MIDI Groove clips when your project reaches a pitch marker.

You can change any MIDI clip into a MIDI Groove clip (or back into a regular MIDI clip) by right-

clicking the clip and choosing Groove-Clip Looping on the pop-up menu. A MIDI clip that has its

Groove clip feature activated appears with beveled edges in the Clips pane.

Here are some other features of MIDI Groove clips:

• You can roll out copies in either direction (just like audio Groove clips). The Snap to Grid setting

determines what beat boundaries (if any) you can roll to.

• You can edit individual repetitions without altering any other copies (unlike audio Groove clips).

• All new repetitions are based on the first clip (just like audio Groove clips). However, if you split a

repetition from its original source clip, the repetition becomes independent: if you copy this clip,

SONAR treats it as an original clip.

• You can import MIDI Groove clips from the Import MIDI dialog box, the Media Browser view, and

by dragging and dropping from the Windows Explorer.

• You can preview MIDI Groove clips in the Import MIDI dialog box.

• You can edit MIDI Groove clips wherever you can edit regular MIDI clips.

For step-by-step information, see the following procedures, and also “Exporting and importing MIDI

Groove clips” on page 670.

See:

“To enable or disable a MIDI clip’s Groove Clip function” on page 669

“To create repetitions of a MIDI Groove Clip” on page 669

“To transpose MIDI Groove Clip” on page 669

“To transpose a MIDI Groove Clip with pitch markers” on page 669

Note: If you then roll the edge of your MIDI Groove clip back over the area you edited, you will

lose your edits.