Reference Guide

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Scale Manager dialog

In the Track Inspector, click the Scale control in the Snap to Scale section and choose Scale

Manager to open the Scale Manager dialog box, which lets you create and edit scales to use with

the Snap to Scale feature.

This dialog box has the following fields and controls:

• Scale Family. This field lists all of the families of scales that in which an individual scale might

be stored.

• Scale. This field lists the scales that are stored in the selected Scale Family.

• Keyboard display. This keyboard display shows the notes that are in the selected scale by

displaying a blue dot over each note in the selected scale. You can include or exclude a note

clicking keys in the keyboard display.

• Scale Degrees. This field lists the different scale degrees that are in the selected scale.

• Scale Degree buttons. These buttons below the Scale Degree field show what scale degrees

are in the selected scale. Each depressed button shows that the button’s namesake is in the

selected field.

• Defaults. This button opens a dialog box that offers to restore factory-supplied scales to their

default values.

• New button. Click this button to create a new scale. When you click this button, the Scale

Manager displays a default name (New Scale “n”) for the new scale, and automatically selects C

as the root note of the scale.

• Delete button. Click this button to delete any scale that is highlighted in the Scale field.

Scale Velocity dialog

The Process > Scale Velocity command opens the Scale Velocity dialog box, which lets you edit

MIDI clips to create crescendos (volume swells) and decrescendos on those instruments that

respond to MIDI velocity. Most MIDI instruments map changes in velocity to changes in note

loudness. Many synthesizer patches alter the timbre of the sound as well, so that higher velocities

produce brighter, as well as louder, sounds.

This command lets you set a starting and ending velocity for the entire time range of the selection.

SONAR scales the velocity of each event to create a smooth linear change in velocity. As an option,

you can enter a starting and ending percentage; SONAR modifies existing velocity values by the

designated percentage.

Note: All scales in the Scale Manager dialog box use C as the root note.