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8. Open the Tutorials folder located in the directory where SONAR is installed.
9. Select
ORGAN.WAV and click Open.
A new clip appears in the selected track at the specified Now Time—measure
18.
10. Double-click the track name, and type in a new name: “Organ,” and press
Enter.
11. Move the Now time to the beginning, insert another audio track, import the
file
MARACAS.WAV, and name the track.
After you import MARACAS.WAV, notice that the clip has beveled or rounded
corners instead of sharp ones. That means it’s a Groove clip, and contains
tempo and pitch information. We’ll learn more about Groove clips in the next
tutorial.
12. Insert another audio track, import the file CONGAS.WAV (which is also a Groove
clip) and name the track.
Moving and Looping the Clips
When you drag and drop clips in the Clips pane, the Snap to Grid setting
determines the resolution to which the clips “snap to.” If your Snap to Grid setting
is Measures and you drop a clip between two measures, the clip appears aligned to
the closest measure.
We have just dropped two percussion clips into our project, and we could have
dropped them where we wanted, but then we wouldn’t get a lesson on how to move
clips in SONAR.
Let’s move both clips to the 18th measure of the project.
1. Click and drag the maracas clip to measure 18 (the Snap Grid is still set to
Measure).
2. The Drag and Drop Options dialog appears. The Drag and Drop Options dialog
box has options for how the clip you are dragging affects existing clips. Since
the clip we are dragging is not being moved onto an existing clip, we can just
accept the default setting. Click OK to accept the default settings.
The clip now appears at the 18th measure.
3. Now move the congas clip to the 18th measure by using the same method.
Now let’s loop the two percussion clips to make copies of them by using their
Groove clip characteristics:
1. Move the cursor over the end of the maracas clip until the cursor looks like
this .
2. When the cursor changes, click the end of the clip and drag it to the right until
you have created repetitions of the clip through the end of measure 28.
3. Copy the congas clip the same way until it reaches the end of measure 28.
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