Instruction Manual

1214 Beginner’s Guide to Cakewalk Software
Audio
Track-by-Track Playback
Connecting an Instrument, Home Stereo, or Microphone to your Sound
Card
Choosing Inputs
Audio Recording
Audio Hardware (Sound Cards) and Drivers
MIDI
Clips
A clip is a portion of the audio or MIDI data in a track that is bounded by a
vertical line on each end of the clip. You can click a clip to select it—a
selected clip becomes highlighted. After you select a clip, you can copy it,
drag it to a new location, delete it, or use any command in the Edit menu to
alter it. A clip can be any size. A clip that is an exact number of beats or
measures and is suitable for repetition, such as a drum pattern, is
frequently called a loop. Clips are also sometimes called events. A track
can have no clips (no data at all), one clip (all the track’s data is in one clip),
or many clips. Having lots of clips in a track increases processing time for
your computer.
In the following picture, the Scissors tool in the Track view toolbar was used
to separate the audio in Track 1 into three clips. You can activate the
Scissors tool by pressing c on your keyboard, at which time the cursor turns
into a small scissors icon. You can press c again to deactivate it, or press t
to activate the Select tool, which is the default Track view tool. After you
activate the Scissors tool you can click the track data at the points where
you want to split it into clips. If your Cakewalk version doesn’t have the
Scissors tool, you can use the Edit-Split command, or right-click a clip and
choose Split from the Clips pane popup menu.