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Creating Your Own Groove Clips
Any audio clip (of a reasonable size) can be a Groove clip.
We are going to take a clip, slip-edit it so that it contains just the parts we want,
and open it in the Loop Construction view to add tempo and pitch information to it.
To Create a Groove Clip (example 1)
In this example we will import a short clip of a bass guitar, slip-edit it and convert
it to a Groove clip.
1. Select File-New to create a new project.
2. Right-click the Snap to Grid button to open its dialog box, set the Musical
Time duration to Measure, and click OK to close the dialog box.
3. Click in the Views toolbar to open the Loop Explorer view.
4. In the Explorer view, navigate to the Tutorials folder in the directory where
you installed SONAR.
5. Drag and drop the
BASS.WAV file into the new project at measure 1.
6. Double-click the clip.
The Loop Construction view appears. You see that there is silence at both the
beginning and end of the clip. We are going to slip-edit the clip so that the clip
begins with the attack of the first note and ends as the last note tails off.
7. Move you cursor to the beginning of the clip.
8. When the cursor changes to look like this , drag the beginning of the clip
until you reach the edge of the first rise in the waveform.
9. Slip-edit the end of the clip until you reach the end of the last notes decay.
Note: You can not slip edit a clip that has its Groove clip characteristics
enabled. You can turn a clip’s Groove clip characteristics on or off either in the
Loop Construction view, or in the Clips pane. In the Clips pane, right-click the
clip and choose Groove-Clip Looping from the popup menu.
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