Reference Guide

724 Editing MIDI events and continuous controllers (CC)
Changing the timing of a recording
6. Click Audition if you want to hear how the quantization will sound; press Stop to stop auditioning
the change.
7. Make adjustments as necessary.
8. Optionally, type a name in the Preset field (located at the top of the dialog box) and click the
Save button to save your settings.
9. Click OK when you are done.
SONAR quantizes the selected MIDI information and audio clips. You can use Undo to restore the
material to its original state. If you saved your settings, you can apply them to any pattern you want
by selecting the pattern and choosing a preset from the Preset field. To delete a group of settings,
select the group from the Preset field and click the Delete button.
Defining a groove
To use the groove quantize feature, you must create or choose a small snippet of music—the groove
pattern—for SONAR to use as the timing and accent reference. You can use either of the following:
• A track, clip, or portion of a clip stored on the Clipboard
• A groove stored in a SONAR groove file
Any MIDI data that you place onto the Clipboard can be used as a groove pattern. With a carefully
defined groove pattern, you can give an old project an entirely new feel. If you like the groove pattern
you have created, you can save it to a groove file.
Groove files can store one or more groove patterns. SONAR supports two types of groove files:
• DNA™ grooves, which contain only timing information but are compatible with some other MIDI
sequencer software products
• SONAR’s native groove format, which stores timing, duration, and velocity information and can
handle longer patterns and longer gaps between quantization points
You can add groove patterns to these files from the Clipboard, edit existing patterns, or delete
patterns you do not want to keep. There is no limit to the number of groove patterns that can be
stored in a single file. You can organize your grooves into several files or keep them all together in a
single file. Groove files have an extension of .grv.
A groove pattern can be as short or long as you like. If the groove pattern is shorter than the material
to be quantized, the pattern will be repeated as many times as necessary.
To define a new groove
1. Select the music that defines the groove using any of the selection tools and commands.
2. Choose Edit > Copy to place the music onto the Clipboard.
You can now use the Groove Quantize command with the Clipboard as the “Groove File.”
To save a groove pattern
1. Select the music that defines the groove using any of the selection tools and commands.
2. Choose Edit > Copy to place the music onto the Clipboard.
3. Choose Process > Groove Quantize to display the Groove Quantize dialog box.