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To Delete a Groove
1. Choose Process-Groove Quantize to display the Groove Quantize dialog box.
2. Click the Define button to display the Define Groove dialog box.
3. Select the file containing the groove to delete.
4. Select the pattern name of the groove.
5. Click the Delete button, and confirm that you want to delete the groove
pattern.
6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for each groove you wish to delete.
7. Click Close when you are done to return to the Groove Quantize dialog box.
Groove Quantize Tips
Here are some tips to help you with groove quantizing:
Aligning sloppy tracks with a good one. Select the portion of the “good” track
that you want to apply to the “sloppy” tracks and copy it to the Clipboard. Select
the portion of the sloppy tracks you want to modify. Choose Process-Groove
Quantize, choose the Clipboard as the groove source, and click OK.
Accenting beats in each measure. Create a sample measure containing note
events at the desired accent points. Give the notes on the accented beats a greater
velocity and the others a lesser velocity. Select the measure, copy it to the
Clipboard, and then choose Process-Groove Quantize. Set the velocity strength
as high as necessary so that the notes get accented the way you want.
Stealing that feeling. Suppose you have a dry piece that was composed and
entered into SONAR with a rigid sense of timing (for example, using step
recording). You’ve recorded a bass line that has exactly the off-beat rhythmic
dynamic you want for the dry piece. You’d like to force your other tracks to share
that feel. Copy the bass track to the Clipboard; from the Groove Quantize dialog
box, select the Clipboard as the groove source; choose a resolution value roughly on
the order of the duration of the bass notes and a window of 100 percent. SONAR
aligns the melody note events with the nearest bass notes.
Synchronizing rhythm and solo tracks. If you want to preserve the unique
rhythm of each track but want to synchronize them together in time, try a larger
resolution value and a smaller window. For example, suppose you have one track
with a highly stylized drum beat and another track containing a jazz solo with
some very nice runs in it. The drum beats fall primarily on quarter notes, but the
solo consists of runs of fast notes that aren’t quite sixteenth triplets. Copy the
drum track to the Clipboard, and groove quantize using a quarter-note resolution
and a window of perhaps 10 percent. SONAR aligns the solo notes near the
quarter-note drum beats but maintains the feel of the solo during the fast runs of
notes in between.
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