Sonar stuff that you have never figured out

Hi,
 
I have been using sonar for a couple of years and there are things that i still struggle with, which i hope are just buried in menus somewhere, or have been staring me in the face for all that time. So if anyone can help with the following, id be grateful....
 
1) Legato in Midi?
2) Glueing midi clips together whilst playing (aka atari st cubase glue pen??)
3) Stopping a project not flipping the screen back to start marker . (stopping means i want to edit something where i stopped it, i dont want the bloody thing going back 40 bars). Drives me bonkers this one, especially lining audio up to the start of a bar.
4) A repeat clip function - eg repeat this clip ten times whilst playing a project.
5) auto zoom setting when opening up the piano roll editor to be just showing the clip, not 100 bars after it as well. Also zoom in on where the bloody notes are , not half way up the piggin page.
6) After recording a clip, can you get sonar to automatically select it?. Why is the older stuff still selected. I have processed/deleted many other clips instead of the one i have just recorded... wondering why my bass drum has gone missing or now has stereo delay on it etc. SUrely just recording something means that it should be selected?
 
I am hoping i am just a victim of bad default settings..
 
Thanks
 
S
 
 

Legato in MIDI? Get a keyboard and play the part into Sonar. You're not going to get good legato with staff or piano roll view without a lot of extra effort. 

I could never figure out how to enter in bends on midi notes.

Well, its easy with a MIDI keyboard, just use the pitch wheel.  


If you're entering it manually, then go into the event view and enter a pitch event. Note the value depends on what your synth has set as the pitch bend range.  

For legato there are at least three things you can do that I am aware of:
1) Take Daveny5's advice and play it yourself. This might just be the best option.
2) There is a Cal you can run. On the menu go to Process>Run Cal. There is one called Legato.cal. Tweak the setting a bit and see if you get the results you are after.
3) Quantize. On the menu, go to Process>Quantize. There is a check box for Note Durations. This may also work, although I haven't used it myself.
 
Good luck!

FastBikerBoy

Guitarpima


I could never figure out how to enter in bends on midi notes.

In the PRV...........

1. Show the controller lane
2. Click on the lane edit filter and select "New Value Type".
3. From the MIDI event type window select "Wheel" from the "TYpe" choices
4. Draw the controllers as required in the lane    

Karl's explanation here is the easiest way to do it IMO...and


from my experience with drawing pitch bends...it's easier if you expand the controller lanes by clicking on the top of the controller lanes and dragging it up.  It will give you more space to work with.

Also...remember to end your pitch bend back in the "center" of the lane or the rest of your notes will be de-tuned.  The value indicator will show up as a black dot while drawing when you reach "0" or the center of the lane.