Reference Guide

734 Editing MIDI events and continuous controllers (CC)

Searching for events

The events in a project have many different parameters. For example, all MIDI notes have a

channel, starting time, pitch, velocity, and duration. Controllers have a controller number and value.

SONAR makes it simple to find, select, and modify events that have certain values for specific

attributes.

Here are some of the things you can do and the commands that you would use to do them:

These capabilities can help you find problem spots or errors in a project or make systematic

changes to events that have particular attributes. All of these capabilities rely on the use of an event

filter, which lets you choose the types of events you want to work with and the range of values in

which you are interested.

See:

“Event filters” on page 734

Event filters

When you select individual clips, or select portions of clips by dragging the Time Ruler, you

automatically select all the events that fall within the designated time range. Sometimes you need

finer control over which events are selected. For example, you might want to:

• Select the notes that are played in a certain octave, so you can copy them to another track

• Select and boost the velocity of notes that have a velocity below a certain threshold

• Find the first patch change event on a particular track

• Select and change the duration of all notes that occur on the third beat of any measure

The Event Filter dialog box looks like this:

Action Command

Select all the events in a project that have the specified attributes Edit > Select > By Filter

Modify an existing selection to keep only those events that have the

specified attributes

Edit > Select > By Filter

Replace all events that meet specified attributes with modified versions of

the events

Process > Find/Change

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