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Copying Clips with Drag and Drop
The first clip in the bass track is two measures long; we can easily drag-copy it to
make it eight measures long. When we drag-copy some of the clips, we can make
them into linked clips. When you edit a linked clip, SONAR performs the exact
same edits on all other clips that the clip is linked to.
To Copy Clips Using Drag and Drop
1. In the Track view toolbar, click the Snap to Grid button’s down arrow to open
the Snap to Grid dialog box.
2. Make sure that the Musical Time radio button is selected, and in the list to
the right of it, select Measure.
3. In the Mode field, select Move By and click OK. Now we can only move clips in
the Clips pane by distances of an exact measure or measures.
4. While holding down the Ctrl key, drag the first clip in the bass track to the
right and release the mouse when the start of the clip is at measure three. The
Drag and Drop Options dialog box appears. Click OK—SONAR places a copy
of the clip in measures three through four. Ctrl-dragging a clip copies and
moves it, while dragging without holding down any extra keys moves a clip
without making a copy of it.
5. Now let’s make a linked clip copy of the new clip in measure three: Ctrl-drag
the clip from measure three to measure five. When the Drag and Drop Options
dialog box appears, click the Copy Entire Clips as Linked Clips checkbox and
click OK. SONAR places a linked clip copy into measures five and six. The two
linked clips have dotted outlines to show they are linked.
6. Make another linked copy of one of the linked clips and place it in measures
seven and eight. Because this copy overlaps the clip that’s in measure 9, make
sure that the Blend Old and New option is checked in the Drag and Drop
dialog box. Because none of the notes in the two clips overlap, blending the
two clips does not change any of their data.
Now you have linked clip copies in measures three through eight: when you edit
any of these three clips, SONAR performs the exact same edits on the other two.
Editing Notes in the Piano Roll View
SONAR’s Piano Roll view gives you complete control of individual note properties.
Let’s edit a couple of notes.
To Edit Notes in the Piano Roll View
1. Open the Piano Roll view of the first bass clip by double-clicking the clip. In
the Piano Roll view, you may have to use the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys
on your computer keyboard to display the note data (the Right and Left Arrow
keys scroll the display in the horizontal direction).
2. Drag the Piano Roll’s Horizontal Zoom control that’s at the lower right corner
of the Notes pane to make the note data large enough for easy editing.
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