Midi editing - old school

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new_note_nick
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2015/01/12 14:56:15 (permalink)

Midi editing - old school

I've recently returned to writing music after a 20 year hiatus. I used to use Cakewalk for DOS and I now have Sonar, and I am completely lost. I only want to do some really basic things, MIDI ONLY, the first one is to select notes on multiple tracks, cut them, and paste them somewhere else on the timeline. If there is a snap function, like there used to be, that fills the hole left by the cut and paste, I want to enable this. I also would like to be able to paste things into the timeline and have them 'shove over' the existing events. That's it, that's all I want to do.
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    Paul P
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    Re: Midi editing - old school 2015/01/12 21:54:08 (permalink)
     
    new_note_nick
    ... I now have Sonar, and I am completely lost.

     
    Cakewalk has a bunch of tutorial videos that may be of help :
     
    Sonar University
     
    There are also many hours of commercial tutorial videos available in the Cakewalk Store.
     
    And there's always the X3 manual.
     
     

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    lawajava
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    Re: Midi editing - old school 2015/01/12 22:14:47 (permalink)
    Two brief suggestions pointedly to help answer your specific question.

    Scott Garrigus generously provided this tip:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixb8gIcGM-U

    And a similar post to yours just down a bit further on the page:
    http://forum.cakewalk.com...-Special-m3143875.aspx

    Two internal 2TB SSDs laptop stuffed with Larry's deals and awesome tools. Studio One is the cat's meow as a DAW now that I've migrated off of Sonar. Using BandLab Cakewalk just to grab old files when migrating songs.
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