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determines what beat boundaries (if any) you can roll to.
• You can edit individual repetitions without altering any other copies ( unlike audio Groove clips).
Note : If you then roll the edge of your MIDI Groove clip back over the area you edited, you will lose
your edits.
• All new repetitions are based on the first clip (just like audio Groove clips). However, if you split a
repetition from its original source clip, the repetition becomes independent: if you copy this clip,
SONAR treats it as an original clip.
• You can import MIDI Groove clips from the Import MIDI dialog, the Loop Explorer view, and by
dragging and dropping from the Windows Explorer.
• You can preview MIDI Groove clips in the Import MIDI dialog.
• You can edit MIDI Groove clips wherever you can edit regular MIDI clips.
For step-by-step information, see the following procedures, and also “Exporting, and Importing MIDI
Groove Clips” on page 241.
To Enable or Disable a MIDI Clip’s Groove Clip Function
• Select the clip and press Ctrl+L.
Or
• Select the clip and use the Edit-Groove Clip Looping command.
Or
• Right-click the clip and choose Groove Clip Looping from the popup menu.
A MIDI clip that has its Groove clip feature activated appears with beveled edges in the Clips pane.
To Create Repetitions of a MIDI Groove Clip
1. Set the Snap value if you want the clip to repeat at precise time boundaries.
2. Move the cursor over the end or beginning of the clip until the cursor looks like this .When the
cursor changes, click the end or beginning of the clip and drag it to the right (if you are dragging
out from the end) or left (if you are dragging from the beginning).
The clip repeats itself until you stop dragging.
To Transpose a MIDI Groove Clip
1. Select the MIDI Groove clip.
2. Hold down the Alt key, and press the + or - key on your computer keyboard to raise or lower the
clip’s pitches a half-step at a time. You don’t have to stop playback.
Or
1. Right-click the clip and choose Clip Properties from the popup menu.
The Clip Properties dialog appears.
2. On the Groove Clips tab, in the Pitch (semitones) field, choose the number of half-steps you want to
transpose the clip by: choose negative numbers to transpose down, or positive numbers to
transpose up.
Either method transposes the original clip and all repetitions. The original clip displays a positive or
negative number in parentheses showing any transposition value you’ve added to the clip.
If you use pitch markers to transpose a clip, any transposition value you add to the clip by the above two
methods changes the final pitch by whatever transposition value you’ve added.