Quantizing clips length

Press 'Q' and Quantize as you wish!

The way you deal with this in SONAR is by setting the snap mode to Move By, instead of Move To. Then clips will main their offsets as they are dragged or drag-copied to a different measure.
 
For looping, you can turn a MIDI clip into a Groove Clip, and any space at the beginning or end of the clip will automatically be filled and preserved as you roll the loop out.
 
If the clips starts or ends very far from a measure line, you may have to help out the Groove-Clip algorithm by first dragging the ends of the clip to the nearest measure line before enabling Looping.
 
I'm not a loop-style composer for the most part so there may be better/faster ways of handling this in SONAR that I'm not aware of, and it does seem that the way SONAR handles MIDI clip boundaries is not ideal for this way of working, but this should address the problem in the short term.

prashan3253


Press 'Q' and Quantize as you wish!

That's not what the OP is asking for.  Quantizing clip length is not the same as quantizing clip data.
 
 

HumbleNoise


celius I know what you're talking about and it seems all my MIDI clips begin at 1.01.000 with the note showing at the time it's played. But the clip begins at 1.01.000. Not at my DAW now but could swear it behaves that way and don't know if I have set it up special that way or not.

As far as having a clip end at a specific now time, not sure how to do that unless there's a loop set up.

Check 'Options' to see if there's setting that will effect it?

There's no way, currently, in Sonar to do that.   At least none I've found.
 
  
 

djjhart@aol.com


I think you might be able to use copy and paste feature. I thought I done it that way years ago. I now just slip stretch back to the 1, 
But snap setting move by will definatley work.

The Move By setting mitigates the need to form specific clip boundaries for purposes of having "data" line up, but if someone also likes the visual feedback of having boundaries line up it still won't help.
 
I don't have Cubase anymore (though I'm seriously considering taking another look at it), but Live, Studio One and - from what I can tell Logic -  do not have this automatic boundary functionality.
 
 

djjhart@aol.com


cubase just released cubase 6 trial i think yesterday 30 day 100% functional. Was scoping that out..

I'm pretty sure I'm going to check it out.   I'm not crazy about the e-licenser (not because I'm generally against it, but because it's yet ANOTHER thing in the system to go wrong).
 
I already have a number of iLok licenses, it's too bad they didn't go with that system to keep my life simple :O 
  
It's interesting there's still no X1 demo.
 
 

celius


Thanks to all, friends!
It's not a big issue, it's only the matter of dragging the clips boundaries after recording.
I have recently switched to X1 from Cubase where all the clips ends are automatically snapped to measure. So maybe it's just a question of being used to that way of working. In any case, it still seems to me neater and simpler than having to choose between "snap by" or "snap to".
But, as I said before, it's not a big problem.
Thanks for help

Celius

I generally set my snap grid to "Whole" (not Measure) and "Move By".   And, while I, too, like to have neatly formed clip boundaries which makes it easy to line up clips, it is actually not that necessary.
By using the snap settings above, even clips without neat boundaries will copy/move correctly in MOST cases.  So for me, it's more about the visual feedback then actual need to have measure-boundary clips.
 
Hope that helps a bit.
 
 

ba_midi

djjhart@aol.com


cubase just released cubase 6 trial i think yesterday 30 day 100% functional. Was scoping that out..

I'm pretty sure I'm going to check it out.   I'm not crazy about the e-licenser (not because I'm generally against it, but because it's yet ANOTHER thing in the system to go wrong).
 
I already have a number of iLok licenses, it's too bad they didn't go with that system to keep my life simple :O 
  
It's interesting there's still no X1 demo.
 
  billy do what i did..for cubebase i made a soft liecnce...elicencer walked me through it..instead of an iloc their tech support showed me a way to store it on your computer..ive never had a problem with it...i did have a problem with elicencer..it was s o confusing i had to email them 4 times...i know to some this is easy...but it was my first time..

chuckebaby

ba_midi

djjhart@aol.com


cubase just released cubase 6 trial i think yesterday 30 day 100% functional. Was scoping that out..

I'm pretty sure I'm going to check it out.   I'm not crazy about the e-licenser (not because I'm generally against it, but because it's yet ANOTHER thing in the system to go wrong).
 
I already have a number of iLok licenses, it's too bad they didn't go with that system to keep my life simple :O 
  
It's interesting there's still no X1 demo.
 
  billy do what i did..for cubebase i made a soft liecnce...elicencer walked me through it..instead of an iloc their tech support showed me a way to store it on your computer..ive never had a problem with it...i did have a problem with elicencer..it was s o confusing i had to email them 4 times...i know to some this is easy...but it was my first time..

Charles ... thanks for that info.  When I do it, I'll probably try it that way - for the demo at least.
 
BTW, to avoid the quoting going inside the reply, just make sure to move your cursor to the very end of the post you're replying to until it goes to the far left boundary (as opposed to still indented);  I see a lot of people making that mistake.