HELP! Composing Drum Tracks Woes...
Hi,
I'm fairly experienced in making beats.
Brand new to Sonar. (Feels brand new anyway).
-I pick an 8 measure section of the song
-Lay down 8 measures of a kick-snare drum pattern
-Quantize it
-Select "sound on sound" recording parameter
-Lay down 8 measures of hi-hat on top of the previously recorded kick-snare pattern
-Quantize the hats
Now, when I try to cntrl-drag-copy it all to the next measure, I only get the last recorded thing ie; hi-hats only.
Why doesn't the copy function copy it all???
This makes it extremely tedious, if not impossible, to move the constructed beats around. For one thing, the kick and snare are still "underneath" the new hat pattern, but I can no longer access the kick pattern without deleting the hat sequence. It all plays fine when I run the sequence, but I cannot copy and move them around as a whole.
Am I going about it all wrong in Sonar? How do folks go about making beats?
Anyone know the answer?
Thanks
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