Hi folks

Can someone please tell me how I can reroute the E3 note to play as D3? The REST of the notes should stay as they are - so if I play D3, it should play D3... the only note that should be rerouted should be E3 -> D3. Obviously transposition on a grand scale doesn't work, as the rest need to stay where they are. Any ideas, midi plugs or such. Never had to do this before so excuse my stupidity if this is simple to do... Many thanks.

There are two ways to do this:

1. Set Now Time to the beginning of the piece (assuming you want to make this change for the entire piece)
    Go into Piano Roll view for the track or tracks you want to change (you can select more than one track)
    Find E3 in the Scale pane (the part that looks like a piano keyboard on the far left).  Click it once.  This selects every E3 in the track or tracks you're editing.
    Then click any E3 note in the roll view (they are all selected) and drag it down to D3.  All the selected notes will move to wherever you drag the note you've grabbed.  There might be some lag if there are a lot of notes being moved, but they will move.

or use the function that used to be called Interpolate but is now called Process|Find/Change...  This is a little more complicated but is very powerful for many tasks.

2. Drag select the area you want to change (or use Ctrl-A to select the entire piece)
    Go to Process|Find/Change...  the Event Filter - Search dialog will open
    At the very bottom right of the dialog you'll see two buttons, All and None.  Click None.  This lets you start completely fresh.
    At the upper left in the Include section, the first type of thing to select is Note.  Check that box.  Next to that, you can enter the key note/octave you want to select.  Leave "exc" unchecked; in Min, enter C 3 and in Max also enter C 3 then click OK.  This will select only the note C3 in the range of time/tracks you initially set for changing.
    When you click OK, the Event Filter - Replace dialog opens.  It's the same dialog, but now you set what you want your note selection to be changed to.  In Key Min, enter D 3; in Max, enter D3.  Click OK.

The dialog will close and now every C3 in the range you selected will have been changed to D3.  You see how this function can be used to do much more extensive search/replace and other transformations.  If you need more information, read about Event Filters in the Sonar manual or in-program help.

'Hope that solves your issue.

mag

Edit:  Looks like Arachnaut found another way, which you also could have done with Process|Transpose...  Lots of ways to do things in Sonar.

In the Piano Roll View click the note on the Keyboard that you want to change it will highlight all of those notes, then (with number lock on) press #2 Twice. That will nudge it down 2 half steps (whole step) Another easy way. :)

Thats how I do it except I use the mouse to grab hold of one note with shift pressed and move up or down as I please. The piano notes on the left are a way to select all notes of the same pitch and they stay selected when one clicks on one to move the entire lot.

Blogman


In the Piano Roll View click the note on the Keyboard that you want to change it will highlight all of those notes, then (with number lock on) press #2 Twice. That will nudge it down 2 half steps (whole step) Another easy way. :)

'Don't know that one.  I just tried it, but weird things happened; the notes I selected moved up and down, but notes next to them disappeared completely.  Very strange (and dangerous).

What's really dangerous is the way doing the exact same thing gets so many completely different results from different users.

If OP really wants to *reroute* rather than *move* (which seems to be what these other techniques would do), the transpose midi plugin can do it. Click on "custom map" and (with pitch selected) set that single pitch to the desired value in the "To" column. (There seem to be two map entries for each pitch, so change both of them.) This will preserve the original data, but play back as you want. Tested in X1d expanded. HTH -Ron

Seems to me a drum map will do this easily enough.
 
Brian

rkl122


 (There seem to be two map entries for each pitch, so change both of them.)  

I think the sharps or flats don't display! You can switch to Notes instead of Pitch and select the MIDI numbers.

Yes, and sorry Arachnaut, I see you did propose the same thing above. -Ron (image challenged today :( )