CAKEWALK SONAR - Tutorial 6-Using Groove Clips

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Tutorial 6—Using Groove Clips
Groove clips are audio clips that “know” their tempo and root note pitch. SONAR
uses this information to stretch the clips to match changes in tempo and to
transpose the root note pitch to match the project’s pitch and pitch changes.
SONAR also has MIDI Groove clips (see “MIDI Groove Clips” on page 267 for more
information) that work much the same as audio Groove clips.
You can create repetitions, or loops of Groove clips simply by dragging their ends in
the Track view, creating as many repetitions as you want.
You can change the pitch of your Groove clips by inserting pitch markers in the
Time Ruler. The default project pitch for Groove clips in a new project is C. The
root note of your Groove clips is transposed to the default for any part of the
Groove clips that come before the first pitch marker, or if you do not have pitch
markers in your project. You can change the default pitch of the current project in
the Markers toolbar.
You can create and edit Groove clips in the Loop Construction view.
This tutorial covers the following:
• Adding Groove clips to a project
• Looping Groove clips
• Changing the pitch of Groove clips
• Making Groove clips follow the project tempo