selecting portions of tracks to edit?

[Mountainmirrors]

How do I just highlight a portion of a wave to edit in Sonar 3.0 - besides editing it in Sound Forge?

 

[Qwerty]

To select a free chunk of stuff -

- Hit "N" to turn Snap To Grid off
- Zoom in
- Hold the ALT key and drag-select the bit you need with the mouse

To select a strict bar, don't turn off the snap to grid.

Q.

 

[Mountainmirrors]

Thanks Querty!
I'm trying to convert some room/prep noise to silence on the beginning of a track.
Is there actually an easy way to do that?
I'm so used to my retard-friendly CEP that Sonar is still all Greek to me! (Hell - even the manual is overwhelming to me right now!)

 

[Bulls Hit]

You can right click the track, Properties, then change the Start Time. This is what I do in GT Pro. I'm sure Sonar will let you do something similar

 

[Strryder]

Do you still have CEP?

I use CEP inside of Sonar for that type of editing all the time, I just select the track that needs editing, then click on "tools" on the top of Sonar, then click on Cool Edit Pro, and the selected track opens up in CEP, after editing, save the waveform, and when you close CEP, Sonar will say that the track has changed, and ask if you want to reload it, hit yes and you're done.

 

[Mountainmirrors]

Hey Stryyder -
That sounds like just what the doc ordered!
Right now, Sound Forge appears in "tools" but not CEP.
How can I set Sonar to recognize CEP?

 

[moskus]

You need to configure it yourself, but download SONAR Tools makes it much easier!

 

[Mountainmirrors]

Is there a way to configure it manually?

 

[moskus]

If you want to. Search for "registry" and "cool edit" in this forum...

 

[Mountainmirrors]

Sounds like something I shouldn't play with...
When installing that program, do you recommend full or custom installation?

 

[Strryder]

I don't know how to make it show up in the tools menu, I bought the boxed version of CEP, and it just shows up there automatically, I think it installs differently than the download version, sorry, I'd help out more if I could.

 

[Mountainmirrors]

Maybe if I re-install, it'll show up then.

 

[Strryder]

If you download the Sonar Utilities program that moskus linked to I'm pretty sure it's not too hard to get any other program into the tools menu.

 

[moskus]

When installing that program, do you recommend full or custom installation?

The full installation. I only use custom install when I know exactly what the program does, and I don't want a part of the program installed...