Reference Guide

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Adding and editing controllers in the Piano Roll
Editing MIDI events and continuous controllers (CC)
Working with MIDI data lanes
The Controller pane allows you to display and edit non-note MIDI data, such as velocity, modulation,
pitch bend and continuous controllers (CCs), in multiple lanes at the bottom of the Piano Roll view.
When you open the Piano Roll view, SONAR will automatically create a separate MIDI data lane for
each unique data type that is present in the selected track(s).
While the Track pane can show multiple event types simultaneously, each MIDI data lane displays
only a single event type. MIDI data lanes allow you to easily show only the parameters you are
interested in, without cluttering up the interface with numerous overlapping events.
MIDI data lanes cannot be reordered or resized. The height of all MIDI data lanes is determined by
the height of the Controller pane.
See:
“To assign an Event Type to a lane” on page 698
To create a new lane
1. Make sure the Controllers pane is shown at the bottom. If it is not displayed, click the Piano Roll
view View menu and choose Show/Hide Controller Pane.
2. Click the Plus button in the bottom left corner of any existing lane.
A new lane is inserted below the lane that was clicked. SONAR will try to automatically assign
the lane to any event type that exists in the track, provided the event type is not already assigned
to another lane. Existing event types are assigned based on the following priority list:
1. Velocity
2. Continuous Controllers (same order as in the MIDI Event Type dialog box)
3. Wheel
4. Channel Aftertouch, starting from channel 1
5. RPN
6. NRPN
If no event types exist in the track, the MIDI Event Type dialog box appears, which lets you
specify the desired event type.
To delete a lane
To delete an existing lane, click the Minus button in the top left corner of the lane.
The button is not available if there is only one lane open. To remove the last lane, simply hide the
Controller pane (click the Piano Roll view View menu and choose Show/Hide Controller Pane).
Note: Deleting a lane does not delete any MIDI events from the track.