Midi Legato and repeat

Hi, first of all let me tell you that I'm a brand new X2 user coming from Pro Tools. I'm just discovering a new world right now and for the moment I'm facing a couple of problems in Midi ( that I use a lot) : 1) is there a way to select some notes and do a force legato with or without overlapping? I mean selecting many notes and force the lenght to 1/8 or 1/16 etc 2) is there a way to select , let me say, all the notes in two bars and make them repeating N times with a one off command without doing control+c every time ? Thanks a lot for your help Ramp

If the part is quantized, and the time intervals are consistent, you can just use the Event Inspecter to set them all to a length that makes them legato. If the start timing and/or lengths are variable, you'll want to try using Process > Run CAL > Legato.CAL

For repeating measures, right-click on the clip, and choose Groove Clip Looping (or Ctrl-L). Then drag the right-end of the clip to roll out as many repetitions as needed.

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I've tried the legato script (And a bunch of others) but I can never get it to work on selected notes in the PRV. Sometimes a lonely note somewhere will get changed, but I can never get the scripts to work consistently.

If anyone has any tips on using CAL and get the scripts to actually do something it would be awesome.

You can use Process | Find/Change to set the lengths of the notes.  For example, if you are using 960 ticks per quarters (as set in Preferences), changing all the 480 will make everything eighth notes.

I have not had any problems getting legato passages by using Quantize, but NOTE that Sonar's default has duration set to OFF.  You want to check duration in the Quantize dialog box so that all the note lengths will quantize.

You can also do a Select by Filter to select notes that are within a certain duration before you use Quantize.

Not sure if that helps but maybe it will be useful as some point.

Sonar, like most DAWs, is pretty deep, but you should get going pretty quickly given that you have the concepts already and just need to know the mechanics.  Sonar started as a MIDI sequencer so I would be surprised if you need anything it doesn't have somewhere.

Select the notes, click in the Duration field in the Event Inspector (add toolbar module if it's not already showing), and enter one of:

1. A fixed amount that will be added/subtracted to each event by entering a value in ticks or M:B:T format with a "+" or "-" in front of it.
2. A single value in ticks or M:B:T format to which all events will be set.
3. A  percentage (with "%" symbol) by which you would like to increase or decrease existing durations proportionally.