Instruction Manual

1204 Beginner’s Guide to Cakewalk Software
MIDI
highlight the names of all the outputs. The order of the outputs in the list
determines what output numbers Cakewalk gives to each output. So even if
an output on your interface has a label that says 1 or A, if it is not first in the
list in the MIDI Devices dialog, it will not be labeled 1 in Cakewalk. You can
change the order in the list by temporarily deselecting all the outputs except
the one you want to move to the top, and then clicking the Move Selected
Devices To Top button that’s at the bottom of the dialog. Then make sure
you reselect the other outputs you want to use.
For more information, see:
MIDI Files, Projects, Tracks, and Clips
Controlling Which Sounds You Hear
MIDI
Audio
Audio Hardware (Sound Cards) and Drivers
MIDI Channels, Interfaces, Inputs, and Outputs
MIDI Drivers
MIDI Files, Projects, Tracks, and Clips
In Cakewalk programs, the file that you use to store usually a single song’s
data is called a project. This is the file you use to record, play back, and
edit your song. The file extension for a project is .
WRK in older Cakewalk
programs and .
CWP in newer ones. Projects that use only the MIDI format
(no digital audio) can be saved in a format called a Standard MIDI File, and
can then be played back in any program or machine that plays MIDI files.
These files have the extension .
MID.
The MIDI messages within a project are usually separated into smaller
containers called tracks, and even smaller containers called clips, which
are sections of a track. You usually use tracks to separate the MIDI
messages that are intended to play one kind of sound from the MIDI
messages that play other sounds. You usually assign each track to its own
MIDI channel. A typical MIDI project might have separate tracks for drums,
bass, and piano. In this example, you might assign the bass track to
Channel 2, and the piano track to Channel 5. Then you would set your MIDI
sound module to play a bass sound on Channel 2, and a piano sound on
Channel 5. Instead of manually setting your MIDI modules to play these
sounds, you can send Program Change messages to tell your sound
module what sounds to play on what channels (see Controlling Which
Sounds You Hear). You usually assign drum tracks to Channel 10.