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8. Open the Tutorials folder located in the directory where SONAR is installed.
9. Select
ORGAN
.
WAV
and click Open.
A new clip appears in the selected track at the specified Now Time—measure 18.
10. Double-click the track name, and type in a new name: “Organ,” and press Enter.
11. Move the Now time to the beginning, insert another audio track, import the file
MARACAS
.
WAV
, and
name the track.
After you import
MARACAS
.
WAV
, notice that the clip has beveled or rounded corners instead of sharp
ones. That means it’s a Groove clip, and contains tempo and pitch information. We’ll learn more
about Groove clips in the next tutorial.
12. Insert another audio track, import the file
CONGAS
.
WAV
(which is also a Groove clip) and name the
track.
Moving and Looping the Clips
When you drag and drop clips in the Clips pane, the Snap to Grid setting determines the resolution to
which the clips “snap to.” If your Snap to Grid setting is Measures and you drop a clip between two
measures, the clip appears aligned to the closest measure.
We have just dropped two percussion clips into our project, and we could have dropped them where we
wanted, but then we wouldn’t get a lesson on how to move clips in SONAR.
Let’s move both clips to the 18th measure of the project.
1. Click and drag the maracas clip to measure 18 (the Snap Grid is still set to Measure).
2. The Drag and Drop Options dialog appears. The Drag and Drop Options dialog box has options for
how the clip you are dragging affects existing clips. Since the clip we are dragging is not being
moved onto an existing clip, we can just accept the default setting. Click OK to accept the default
settings.
The clip now appears at the 18th measure.
3. Now move the congas clip to the 18th measure by using the same method.
Now let’s loop the two percussion clips to make copies of them by using their Groove clip characteristics:
1. Move the cursor over the end of the maracas clip until the cursor looks like this .
2. When the cursor changes, click the end of the clip and drag it to the right until you have created
repetitions of the clip through the end of measure 28.
3. Copy the congas clip the same way until it reaches the end of measure 28.
Slip Editing a Clip
Solo the two guitar tracks and listen to the project. We are going to combine these two tracks and create
an automatic crossfade between them. Before we do, we have to hide the beginning of the second guitar
part so it doesn’t affect the crossfade. We’ll do this using slip editing.
1. Click the Snap to Grid button to turn off Snap to Grid. The Snap to Grid settings control slip
editing as well as drag and drop.
2. Move the cursor over the beginning of the second guitar clip.