• SONAR
  • A step input variation....is this in Sonar? (p.2)
2014/10/15 10:11:56
matt fresha
fwrend
I "think" what the OP is stating is that, after the fact, you can click a midi note (I assume in PRV), let's say a G3 and strike a note on the controller, let's say Bb3, and the note automatically is moved to the new pitch.  I'm not sure that's any more efficient than click drag.

 
This is exactly what I'm trying to describe. Thank you. I honestly found this to be a bit of a time saver. It's a very small, seemingly insignificant, feature, but it's actually quicker than having to drag the note(s) with my mouse.
 
2014/10/15 10:16:02
Kalle Rantaaho
fwrend
I "think" what the OP is stating is that, after the fact, you can click a midi note (I assume in PRV), let's say a G3 and strike a note on the controller, let's say Bb3, and the note automatically is moved to the new pitch.  I'm not sure that's any more efficient than click drag.
 
But, perhaps it is a step function whereby it advances automatically to the next note thereby avoiding continual click strike?  This would be similar to step recording but after the notes have already been input once.




That's how I understand it as well. So, like step record in overwrite recording mode (?), except for the convenience of not having to change the note lengths and other properties. That method, if I understand it correctly, just "re-pitches" the note without changing any of its other properties.
2014/10/15 10:49:48
John
No Sonar doesn't do that. You should submit a feature request for it. 
2014/10/15 15:56:38
bz2838
are you talking about the chord track in Cubase?  If you insert chord track, and set your track to follow chord track, then any wrong notes will be changed to follow chord track, could this be what you're referring to?
2014/10/15 19:37:21
Anderton
bz2838
are you talking about the chord track in Cubase?  If you insert chord track, and set your track to follow chord track, then any wrong notes will be changed to follow chord track, could this be what you're referring to?




If so, Sonar can snap to scale. Don't use that feature much but let me see what I can do with it.
2014/10/15 23:27:11
matt fresha
No, it's not the chord track. It's already been said that this isn't in Sonar. I guess this will make a great FR. :)
 
However, I'll read up on snap to scale. I never really used the chord track in Cubase, outside of a few times. It was helpful, though. Sonar has a snap to scale? I'll read up on that. I'm liking Sonar more than Cubase in a lot of areas that are important to me.
2014/10/16 01:24:32
Anderton
Vern C
No, it's not the chord track. It's already been said that this isn't in Sonar. 



John's probably right about it not being in sonar, but there are quite a few things people think aren't in Sonar, yet they are. Also Sonar is flexible enough you can sometimes devise workarounds that do something similar.
 
fwrend
I "think" what the OP is stating is that, after the fact, you can click a midi note (I assume in PRV), let's say a G3 and strike a note on the controller, let's say Bb3, and the note automatically is moved to the new pitch.  I'm not sure that's any more efficient than click drag.



I think I'm still missing something. If you want a Bb3 and you're going to need to hit a Bb3 anyway, why not just hit a Bb3 in step record mode? Why pick up another note with a different pitch first? Is there some ability to, say, select a chord and then it gets deposited on the root note? Or is the "secret sauce" that the note you play acquires the velocity, duration, length, etc. of the note you clicked on? In that case, if it's step recording, with Sonar you specify the note characteristics for the step and when you play a new step, that note has the same characteristics. So that's probably not what you're after.
 
Or is the special feature that it is not really like step mode in that it doesn't advance through steps, but you can pretty much click anywhere, play your keyboard key, and it deposits the note or notes you clicked on previously...sort of like a keyboard-driven copy and paste? Also curious...can you select pretty much any collection of MIDI notes, even chords or groups with offset attacks or whatever, and just plop them down as if they were pasted there?
 
My concern is that for a feature request to get traction, it's going to have to be spelled out pretty precisely or the bakers won't know exactly what it is you want. And now you've got me curious, too 
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