CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual page 90

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The Loop Construction view appears. You see that there is silence at both the beginning and end of
the clip. We are going to slip edit the clip so that the clip begins with the attack of the first note and
ends as the last note tails off.
9. Move you cursor to the beginning of the clip.
10. When the cursor changes to look like this
edge of the first rise in the waveform and release the mouse.
11. Slip edit the end of the clip until you reach the end of the last note's decay. You may need to scroll
the scrollbar at the bottom of the Loop Construction view a little to the right to see the end of the
loop.
Note: You can not slip edit a clip that has its Groove clip characteristics enabled. You can turn a
clip's Groove clip characteristics on or off either in the Loop Construction view, or in the Clips pane.
In the Clips pane, right-click the clip and choose Groove-Clip Looping from the popup menu.
Your clip should look something like this:
12. Click the Enable Looping button
Groove clip characteristics.
SONAR automatically slices the clip and assigns in a number of beats. Notice that SONAR has
sliced this clip at eighth note intervals. This is a clip with a waveform that does not have dramatic
transients (sharp rises in volume). For clips like this, markers at beat intervals work best.
The clip is now a Groove clip, and it looks like this:
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, drag the beginning of the clip until you reach the
on the Loop Construction view toolbar to enable the clip's