Reference Guide

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Snap to Scale
Editing MIDI events and continuous controllers (CC)
A. Keyboard display B. Scale degree buttons
5. When you’re through choosing scale degrees, click the Close button to save your changes.
To restore a scale or scales to factory settings
1. Open the Scale Manager dialog box.
2. If you want to restore a particular scale to factory settings, select it in the Scale field, click the
Defaults button, and in the Scale Defaults dialog box, select Restore Current Scale (if
factory), and click OK.
3. If you have deleted a factory-supplied scale and want to replace it with the original version, click
the Defaults button, and in the Scale Defaults dialog box, select Restore Any Missing Scales,
and click OK.
4. If you want to restore all factory-supplied scales to factory settings, click the Defaults button, and
in the Scale Defaults dialog box, select Restore All Factory Scales, and click OK.
To choose how SONAR handles non-scale notes
1. Open the Snap Settings dialog by clicking the drop-down arrow in the Scale menu, and
choosing Snap Settings from the menu that appears.
2. Choose one of the following options:
• Adjust to Next, Higher Note. If you choose this option, SONAR moves any non-scale note
that you move to the next higher note in the selected scale.
• Adjust to Previous, Lower Note. If you choose this option, SONAR moves any non-scale
note that you move to the previous, lower note in the selected scale.
• Adjust to Nearest Note. If you choose this option, SONAR moves any non-scale note that
you move to the note that is closest in pitch in the selected scale.
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