Reference Guide

730 Editing MIDI events and continuous controllers (CC)

Snap to Scale

When Snap to Scale is enabled, any notes that you draw in the Piano Roll view (or Inline Piano Roll

view) stay within the selected scale. Also, any notes that you move with the Select tool stay within

the selected scale. When Snap to Scale is enabled, both Piano Roll views display grey rows at the

pitch levels that are not in the selected scale. Also, both the Select tool and the Draw tool display a

tuning fork icon when you create or modify notes to show that Snap to Scale is enabled.

You can create custom scales, modify existing ones, and choose how SONAR handles non-scale

notes.

To enable or disable Snap to Scale for a single track

• Open the Track Inspector

Figure 230. Snap to Scale settings in the Track Inspector

A. Root Note menu B. Scale Snap button C. Scale menu

• In the Piano Roll view, in the Track List pane, right-click the track that you want to affect, and

choose Enable/Disable Snap to Scale from the pop-up menu.

To momentarily bypass the Snap to Scale feature

• Hold down both mouse buttons while you edit.

To choose a root note for a single track

• Do either of the following:

• In the Track Inspector, click the drop-down arrow in a track’s Root Note control, and choose a

root note from the menu that appears.

• In the Piano Roll view, right-click a track’s name in the Track List pane, and choose Root

Note > (name of root note) from the pop-up menu.