On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:46:51 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote:
> Cubase has (had?) an option Set to Value (or Set Length? I don't
> remember exactly the name), which did exactly what you are looking for.
> If your own sequencer has something like this, you wouldn't have to
> screw around with articulations.

Dennis:

Since you'r on Sonar, could you get the Interpolate function to work
for you in this case? You could set "search" for all duration values
and "replace" for the number of EDUs you want.

Unfortunately, I've found in a few tests that it's very hard to get
Finale to inmport short notes with lots of space between them. In a
MIDI file with 24-EDU notes spaced 1000 EDUs apart (so they're right
on the beat), Finale still calls them all quarter notes despite their
brevity. It can call them grace notes, but that's not what you want in
this situation.

My idea, therefore, is to use Mass Edit to expand all note values out
to a point where the "small" value you want is, by relation, a quarter
note. For instance, if you want to eventually have them be 16th notes,
multiply the entire passage by 400%. Then, save as MIDI and use
Sonar's Interpolate to change all durations to 1024 EDUs (a full
quarter note). After importing this MIDI file into Finale, use Mass
Edit to change the durations to 25% so that the quarter notes become
sixteenths.

I haven't tested this solution in its entirety, but it seems like it
should work out.

-- 
Brad Beyenhof
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