Can you transpose this? ...if that is even the right term...??

You can open any MIDI clip in the step sequencer. Just click in the top right corner of the clip. 

Sharke is correct. Just click the top-right corner of the MIDI clip in the Track view and choose Step Sequencer from the menu. SONAR will automatically convert the clip into a Step Sequencer clip and open it in the SS window. 

And Beepster is correct too. From then on out, if you double-click the clip it will automatically open in the Step Sequencer.   

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Ah, I thought it was a Right Click to get at that menu. I always just use the Views menu to open that stuff but I should get into the habit of using the Clip pop out button menu thingie.

I doubt it...I'm SOOOO lost and simply pressing things to see what they do...lol!

Ya, man. You'll be fine. It's less complicated than it seems at first. I was really intimidated when I first started trying to figure it all out but putting my head down for a couple weeks it all started coming together and I'm rockin' now. It's just the initial learning curve of juggling the concepts of notes, velocity and "controllers" (not hardware... the MIDI CC messages) all at once. I kind of look at it like this on a guitar: Notes, pretty straightforward... just what note you left hand is fretting, Velocity, how hard you are hitting the strings with your right hand, Controllers, variable effects like the tone pots on the guitar or effects pedals.

The more in depth stuff like channels still eludes me somewhat but that seems to not be as crucial to get stuff done within Sonar.

It's a bit scattered but the best help I got in regards to MIDI was directly from the X2 manual. I just went through the various entries on MIDI in the manual as they appeared and performed the tasks/functions they described step by step.

The other tricky thing is setting up a hardware controller which tends to be specific to a lot of devices unless you've got something that syncs up to Sonar automagically. My M-Audio just played notes as soon as I plugged it in and for the faders/knobs right clicking on parameters in Sonar then using the MIDI learn feature maps most stuff (but not all for some reason). With my padKontrol though I found it was a lot easier to just find the notes, controllers, etc that represented what I wanted to do then used the programming features on the pK to switch the pads and stuff to that and then saving it as a Scene. I haven't messed with the pK since I've gone all in with my MIDI studying though so I'll probably be able to figure out easier ways to do all that now. 

Good luck.

Frosty,

how else you gonna learn, man.  Just start turning knobs and pressing buttons. Then read up to understand what you'd done.  And remember, you don't learn anything from doing things right.

Where was that tour Paul P.? Can you maybe fund the thread and post it here? ....and typically that is what I do myself, as far as going through the forum on one computer and working through things on m7 DAW that I find to be useful to me...I'll be back at it again tonight!

Frostysnake, Beep's right, I was taggin' along in your thread.

Going off on a tangent from there (thanks Charlie, and mike) I discovered the very useful "change a whole column of drum map values at once" shortcut.
Make a selection of rows then Ctl+Shift+click the value you want to change.

..and yes, that was a very excellent tip, Paul...I was not liking the whole making changes line by line!