Reference Guide

1227
Audio
Beginner’s Guide to Cakewalk Software
For more information, see:
Tracks
Clips
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
Tracks
A track is represented by a horizontal strip in the Track view that has a name and number on the left
side (each track is also represented by a vertical module in the Console view). A track is a container
you usually use to keep the sound from each instrument separate from the others—you usually keep
the sound from each instrument on a separate track.
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.
A. Name of Track 1 B. Three C. Blind C. Mice
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
A
DCB
DCB