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For those interested, here is a summary and description of the topics covered:
Sonar X2 Explained
Groove3
Eli Krantzberg
September 2012
The Basics - Get off to the right start with Sonar X2 by setting up your hardware and learning your way around the interface.
01. Lift Off!- Overview of basic audio and MIDI hardware setup and settings.
02. Language - Explore some of the basic terminology and concepts used in the Sonar X2 project hierarchy, and learn about the common file types available.
03. Look - Take a first look around the Sonar X2 interface and learn about the basic elements of the interface.
04. Listen - Explore the Browser, see how to manually set up a preview bus and audition audio loops at various tempo, and learn how to work with the various docking options.
05. Synth Rack Intro - See how to use the Browser's Synth tab to load soft synths, and then use the Media tab to audition MIDI Files as well as load clips and create tracks.
06. NOW's The Time! - Explore some of the ways of moving the NOW time to various playback positions.
07. Time Ruler and Transport Tips - Discover how to zoom directly from the time ruler, change and add time ruler formats, and how to use some additional transport commands to control playback.
Recording - Learn what you need to know to make your own audio and MIDI recordings.
08. Metronome Setup - Watch as we manually create a bus for the metronome output, and set the various parameters to customize the click and count off.
09. Basic MIDI Recording - Listen as a MIDI drum track is set up and recorded to a click, and see how to create additional MIDI tracks routed to a single software synth.
10. Input Quantize - Learn how to set up a custom quantize template and use it to quantize mIDI recordings immediately on input.
11. Recording With The Arpeggiator - Discover the rhythmic possibilities available with Sonar X2s arpeggiator, and how to load, save, and edit it's presets and parameters.
12. Basic Audio Recording - See how to set inputs, arm multiple tracks, set various recording preferences, check levels, and record an audio track.
13. Input Echo - See how to use the Input Echo function to monitor the audio signal from Sonar X2 while recording, and how to mute the sound card input in the Windows 7 Control Panel.
Working With The Display - Dig a bit deeper into Sonar X2 and discover ways of customizing your workflow.
14. Track Display Shortcuts - Learn several useful keyboard shortcuts for managing the view and sizing of the tracks in the Track View.
15. Zooming Techniques - Discover different ways of zooming and scrolling the disply using menu commands, keyboard shortcuts, the mouse and mouse wheel with various modifiers, and the new Sonar X2 Auto Zoom feature.
16. Track Display Options - Learn how to load and display custom icons, how to customize which elements are displayed in the different classes of channel strips using the Track Control Manager, how to modify the meter display; and how to export track templates.
17. Clips Pane Display Options - Control and modify the clip information displayed in the Clips Pane, and see how to set the double click behavior, rename clips and tracks, and change the clip colors.
Editing In Track View - Take your project to the next level by utilizing Sonar X2's powerful editing capabilities.
18. Editing Quick start - Explore Track Filter and edit filter settings; and learn how to call up the various tools using the Tool HUD.
19. Working With The Tools - Discover the functions of each of the main edit tools, how to make both clip based edits and time based edits, and how to use the hidden scrub and zoom tools.
20. The Smart Tool - The Smart Tool combines the most commonly used functions of the other edit tools. Learn how to use it's various functions based on it's position in Clips and different modifier key combinations.
21. Smart Snap - Discover the various absolute and relative snap based editing functions, and see how the new smart snap and secondary snap features work.
22. Using Markers - Markers are useful for jumping to preset locations, making time based selections, and simple visual organization. Watch as markers are created and edited within a project.
23. Split, Drag, Paste, and Link - Learn how some of the various options for splitting, copying, pasting, and linking clips work
24. The Track Inspector - Explore the anatomy of the various channel strip types, and learn more about the Track properties inspector controls.
25. Clip Properties - Discover some of the ways audio and MIDI clips are edited from the Clips Properties Inspector.
Advanced Editing - Make your content work at different tempos, and discover some alternate methods of MIDI part creation and editing.
26. Quantizing With AudioSnap - Watch as we put AudioSnap to work quantizing the shaker part non destructively, and then render it as a new clip.
27. Working With Groove Clips - See how easy it is to turn an audio file into a loop that will follow project pitch and tempo, using the Groove Clip Inspector properties.
28. The Piano Roll View Display - Learn how to customize which Piano Roll View window elements are displayed, how to work with multiple tracks simultaneously, and some simple selection techniques.
29. Note Editing in Piano Roll View pt 1 - Watch as notes are trimmed, transposed, glued, scrubbed, quantized,and erased.
30. Note Editing in Piano Roll View pt 2 - See how individual or multiple notes are created using either the Smart Tool or the Freehand Draw tool.
31. Nudge, Tab, and Inspect - Learn how to use the Event Inspector Module, combined with the Nudge and Tab commands to speed up your work flow.
Recording Techniques - Learn how to punch in, loop record, and manage multiple takes with Sonar X2's new Take Lanes.
32. Auto Punch Recording - Discover how to punch in and replace portions of live audio recordings unsing Sonar's Auto Punch functions.
33. Loop Recording - See how Loop playback and recording is set up and is used to capture multiple passes over a specified range either to take lanes or to newly created audio tracks.
34. Working With Take Lanes - Discover how take lanes are used to edit together composite tracks using a variety of techniques including muting, splitting, and clip isolation.
Mixing - Bring your sound together by customizing your signal routing, adding effects processing, and automating your mix.
35. Customizing The Console View - Learn how to hide or reveal various elements and track types in the Console View, and hwo to customize the look and response of the meters.
36. Using Multi Port Instruments and Track Folders - See how to assign multiple outputs in Session Drummer for effects processign of the individual elements, and then pack all of the newly created tracks together into a Track Folder.
37. Working With Real Time FX - Discover how effects processing is applied either to complete tracks or specific clips, and how to navigate the plug-in porpeties page controls.
38. FX Chains 2.0 - Yeah! - Learn how to consolidate multiple plug-ins into FX Chains, and how to assign customizable controls in the FX Chain Container window.
39. Sends and Busses - Watch as the Insert Send Assistant is used to create sends simultaneously on multiple tracks to a new Bus with a Breverb plug-in, and how busses are created and set up for use as sub groups.
40. ProChannel QuickStart - Learn how to load, sort, replace, manage, and work with the various ProChannel elements; how to insert FX Chains directly in between the ProChannel modules; and how to call up the new Console Emulation module as the first plug-in on all tracks simultaneously.
41. EQ and Compression - Look and listen to how EQ and compression are applied to the various elements in the mix.
42. Automation Modes and Automation Lanes - Learn how the different automation modes work, and see how to use the new automation lanes functions to organize multiple automation envelopes.
43. Drawing and Editing Automation - Discover how to edit exisitign automation nodes, as well as how to create new automation directly in the Clips Pane using the various pattern tools.
44. Working With MIDI Continuous Controller Messages - Learn how to assign MIDI CC messages to specific synth controls, and then animate their movement in the Piano Roll View's Controller Pane.
45. Final Mix and Fade Out - Watch as some final automation and limiting is applied; and then listen as the complete mix is exported to a CD quality audio file in real time.