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To Select Events Using the Event Filter
1. First, select an initial set of tracks, clips, or events.
2. Choose Edit-Select-By Filter to display the Event Filter dialog box.
3. Set up the event filter to find the events you want.
4. Click OK.
SONAR searches the currently selected events and weeds out those that do not
meet the requirements of the event filter.
Example: Splitting Left-Hand and Right-Hand Parts
Suppose you recorded a keyboard riff on Track 1 but want to split the left and right
hands apart into separate tracks so you can edit them separately. Suppose that all
the right-hand notes are above C4. Here’s how to proceed:
1. Select all of Track 1 by clicking on the track number in the Track view.
2. Choose Edit-Select-By Filter to display the Event Filter dialog box.
3. Click the None button to clear the dialog box.
4. Check the Note checkbox, and enter a minimum value of C4. The maximum
should already be set to C9.
5. Click OK. SONAR selects all the notes from C4 up.
6. Choose Edit-Cut to move the selected notes to the clipboard.
7. Choose Edit-Paste and paste the events to a different track.
Process-Interpolate
The Process-Interpolate command is an extremely flexible way of manipulating
the data parameters of events. It works something like the search-and-replace
function in a word processor but with scaling rather than simple replacement.
This command uses two event filters. The first event filter lets you set up your
search criteria. The second event filter is used to define the replacement value
ranges. When an event satisfies the search criteria, its parameters are scaled
between the search ranges and the replacement ranges. This permits
transposition, inversion, key signature changes, and other operations to be
accomplished with this one simple command.
In the second Event Filter dialog box, the checkboxes and value ranges for beats
and ticks are ignored. Only the replacement value ranges for the selected event
types are used.
The Process-Interpolate command understands a wild card octave number in the
second event filter to mean, “replace the original note with a different note in the
original octave.” Using octave wild cards for both the search and replacement
event filters lets you, for instance, change all E-flats to E-naturals, preserving the
octave of each note.
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