CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual page 276

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Window Sensitivity
If Outside Window
Only Notes, Lyrics and Audio
Stretch Audio
Strength
6. Click Audition if you want to hear how the quantization will sound; press Stop to stop auditioning
the change.
7. Make adjustments as necessary.
8. Optionally, type a name in the preset field (located at the top of the dialog box) and click the Save
button to save your settings.
9. Click OK when you are done.
SONAR quantizes the selected MIDI information and audio clips. You can use Undo to restore the
material to its original state. If you saved your settings, you can apply them to any pattern you want by
selecting the pattern and choosing a preset from the preset field. To delete a group of settings, select the
group from the preset field and click the Delete button.
Defining a Groove
To use the groove quantize feature, you must create or choose a small snippet of music—the groove
pattern—for SONAR to use as the timing and accent reference. You can use either of the following:
• A track, clip, or portion of a clip stored on the Windows clipboard
• A groove stored in a SONAR groove file
Any MIDI data that you place onto the Windows clipboard can be used as a groove pattern. With a
carefully defined groove pattern, you can give an old project an entirely new feel. If you like the groove
pattern you have created, you can save it to a groove file.
Groove files can store one or more groove patterns. SONAR supports two types of groove files:
• DNA™ grooves, which contain only timing information but are compatible with some other MIDI
sequencer software products
• SONAR's native groove format, which stores timing, duration, and velocity information and can
handle longer patterns and longer gaps between quantization points
You can add groove patterns to these files from the Windows clipboard, edit existing patterns, or delete
patterns you do not want to keep. There is no limit to the number of groove patterns that can be stored
in a single file. You can organize your grooves into several files or keep them all together in a single file.
Groove files have an extension of .
A groove pattern can be as short or long as you like. If the groove pattern is shorter than the material to
be quantized, the pattern will be repeated as many times as necessary.
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Enter the window sensitivity value
(percentage)
Choose what should happen to events
outside the window
Check to prevent MIDI controller, aftertouch,
and xRPN data from being adjusted
Check to stretch audio clips to adjust their
duration
Use the sliders or enter values for Note
strength, Duration strength, and Velocity
strength
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