editing in SD3

I was watching a video about how to edit in SD3, and I'm not getting it.
It's this video  (at about 5:20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnkl_BrbrHQ&feature=related
 
(I'm using X1 Producer).   In the video he says he's dragging a loop into the Step Sequencer.    But it doesn't show how he's doing it.  How do you do that?
 
Also, on his piano roll for the drums in the video, they're little squares.  On mine, they're squiggly lines.   Again, no idea how to program drums with that.
 
Any help would be much appreciated.   Thanks.

are you using a drum map on the prv for sd3

sykodelic -
That was a foreign language to me.  Drum map on the 'prv'??  I don't know what that means.

Thanks.

I am not sure what your problem is either without seeing your screen. In PRV (piano roll view), like in the video, the midi notes (trigger commands) should look like squares. In Staff View they will look like notes.

Remember to use Zoom in and Zoom out when editing.

Rob

greg54


MoodyB -
Do I just drop the loop and place it onto the sequencer?    (I'm new to this stuff.)
I have not tried 'fit to content.'   Didn't know there was such a thing  (Soooo much to learn.)

Yes. Just drop the midi part from the browser into the step sequencer view.


Here's a few images which might help explain what I was trying to suggest in my previous post.


In the first image, if you put the mouse cursor where I've highlighted with the red outline, and click the right mouse button, a popup menu appears where you can select ' fit content ' :





The 2nd image shows how the midi sequence now looks in the tracks display after this :






And the 3rd image shows how the midi sequence looks after increasing the tracks' height by grabbing & dragging down the grey seperator bar at the bottom of the track :




Like yourself I'm fairly new to X1, having bought it back in December, and I personally found the Groove3 tutorial videos to be excellent for showing you around the interface & the basics of Sonar's inner workings.

Either those, or the 'X1 Power' book by Scott R. Garrigus, already suggested by sykodelic, would help bring you up to speed on X1.

Or both if you are feeling flush :)

MoodyB -
I looked for the 'Groove 3' tutorial videos and couldn't find them on youtube.   Do they have a specific name?

Thanks.

Thanks, MoodyB.  I appreciate it!