Instruction Manual

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Audio

Beginner’s Guide to Cakewalk Software

In the following picture, you can see the visual results of recording the first 3

notes of “Three Blind Mice” as audio in Track 1, and as MIDI in Track 2.

Notice that the graph (or picture, Cakewalk stores these picture files in the

Picture Cache folder in the Cakewalk Projects folder) of the audio data

follows the natural decay in loudness of a sound after each note is struck.

This is as expected since the pictures represent the actual sound that is

recorded. The MIDI track’s graph is much simpler, since it only represents

commands to turn a certain note on for a certain time period, then turn

another note on, etc. We zoomed in on these two tracks far enough to

expose all the track property fields, such as Volume, Pan, Input, Output,

etc. Notice the different logos left of the track names that distinguish audio

tracks from MIDI tracks. Notice the data in the audio track’s Out field: A.

This is the name of the output driver that this particular sound card uses. If

your sound card only has one pair of outputs (or one stereo output), you

don’t have to change anything in the Out field. Cakewalk fills it in

automatically as soon as Cakewalk finishes running the Wave Profiler. If

your sound card has more than one pair of outputs, or you have more than

one sound card installed and enabled on your computer, you can use this

field to choose what pair of outputs you want to hear a specific track played

back through.

For more information, see:

Clips

Name of Track 1

MiceBlindThree