Instruction Manual

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Working with Percussion
Notation and Lyrics
5. If you are entering a chord, continue clicking notes at the same Now
Time. To move ahead, press Shift-Right Arrow and click a new note
duration, if desired.
You can delete a note right after you enter it by pressing Ctrl+Z, or at any
time by clicking the Eraser tool and clicking the note in the notation or TAB
staffs.
Cakewalk gives you several options to play and hear the notes in your
track:
• Scrubbing enables you to click each note in the Fretboard and hear it
play. Select the Scrub tool and click the note.
• Scrub strumming enables you to “strum” chords by dragging the Scrub
tool through a chord. With the Scrub tool selected, drag through a chord
on the Fretboard from below it or above it and back and forth.
• Ctrl+Right Arrow/Ctrl+Left Arrow moves the cursor through the track,
playing each note as it reaches it.
Working with Percussion
The Staff view can display percussion tracks on a five-line percussion staff
or on a single percussion line. The staff usually displays notes for a drum
set or multiple percussion instruments; the line is used to display notes for a
single instrument (although it need not be so).
SONAR lets you control the appearance of percussion staffs in
considerable detail. You can display percussion notes using several
different types of noteheads and articulation symbols, and you can map any
percussion sound to any position on the percussion staff (in a percussion
track, each MIDI note value designates a different percussion instrument;
mapping lets you display any instrument in any position on the staff,
regardless of the underlying MIDI note value). You can save your settings
as a preset, and use them again on other tracks and in other projects.
SONAR supplies a standard preset based on the General MIDI percussion
standard and popularly accepted percussion staff positions and noteheads.
See:
Setting Up a Percussion Track
Setting Up a Percussion Staff or Line
Ghost Strokes