CAKEWALK Cakewalk SONAR, User Manual

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4. While holding down the Ctrl key, drag the first clip in the bass track to the right and release the
mouse when the start of the clip is at measure three. The Drag and Drop Options dialog box
appears. Click OK—SONAR places a copy of the clip in measures three through four. Ctrl-dragging
a clip copies and moves it, while dragging without holding down any extra keys moves a clip
without making a copy of it.
5. Now let’s make a linked clip copy of the new clip in measure three: Ctrl-drag the clip from measure
three to measure five. When the Drag and Drop Options dialog box appears, click the Copy Entire
Clips as Linked Clips checkbox and click OK. SONAR places a linked clip copy into measures five
and six. The two linked clips have dotted outlines to show they are linked.
6. Make another linked copy of one of the linked clips and place it in measures seven and eight.
Because this copy overlaps the clip that’s in measure 9, make sure that the Blend Old and New
option is checked in the Drag and Drop dialog box. Because none of the notes in the two clips
overlap, blending the two clips does not change any of their data.
Now you have linked clip copies in measures three through eight: when you edit any of these three clips,
SONAR performs the exact same edits on the other two.
Editing Notes in the Piano Roll View
SONAR’s Piano Roll view gives you complete control of individual note properties. Let’s edit a couple of
notes.
To Edit Notes in the Piano Roll View
1. Open the Piano Roll view of the first bass clip by double-clicking the clip. In the Piano Roll view,
you may have to use the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys on your computer keyboard to display the
note data (the Right and Left Arrow keys scroll the display in the horizontal direction).
2. Drag the Piano Roll’s Horizontal Zoom control in the lower right corner of the Notes pane to make
the note data large enough for easy editing (see following picture).
3. In the Piano Roll toolbar, right-click the Snap to Grid button to open the Snap to Grid dialog
box (Snap to Grid settings in each view are independent of each other).
4. Make sure the Musical Time radio button is selected, and in the window to the right of it, select
Eighth.
5. In the Mode field, make sure that the Move By radio button is selected and click OK. Now we can
only move data in the Piano Roll view by exact distances of one or more eighth notes.
6. In the Piano Roll toolbar, click the Draw tool to activate it.