Reference Guide

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Arranging and editing
Arranging Tracks
To Restore the Default Order
• Right-click the kind of track that you want to restore to the default order, and choose Restore
Default Widget Order from the pop-up menu. If you want to restore buses to the default order,
right-click a bus. Surround buses are separate from stereo buses.
To Configure Track and Bus Tabs
1. Right-click a tab, and choose Widget Tab Manager from the pop-up menu.
The Widget Tab Manager dialog appears.
2. In the Tab Name field, choose the tab that you want to configure, or choose <new>, and type a
name to create a new tab.
3. In each of the four Strip columns (Audio Strip, MIDI Strip, etc.), check all the controls you want to
see on this type of tab in each track or bus type (Audio track, MIDI track, Bus, Surround Bus).
4. To select all available controls, click Select All Widgets; to select the default controls, select
Restore Tab Defaults (this will delete any new tabs you’ve created).
5. To configure a different tab, select it in the Tab Name field.
6. Click OK to implement your changes, or Cancel to delete them.
The order that a control (also called a widget) appears in is the same for all tabs in the same strip
type. For example, if the pan control appears first on the Mix tab of audio tracks, it also appears first
on any other tabs for audio tracks that display the pan control.
To Change the VU Meter to Horizontal or Vertical Display
• Click the drop-down arrow next to the Show/Hide Meters button , and choose either
Horizontal Meters or Vertical Meters from the menu.
Track view control size and layout
It is possible to alter the default size and layout of the controls in the Track view. This requires
adding entries to the Cakewalk.ini file.
This variable should be set in the [WinCake] section. For example:
[WinCake]
TVBoldStripNames=0
Below are the variables that affect the control appearance:
TVControlHeight=<number of pixels>, default = 17
Specifies the height of controls. The default height is 17 pixels. This value shouldn't be changed
more than 1 or 2 from the default value, or you may experience unexpected results.
TVControlWidth=<number of pixels>, default = 41
Specifies the width of controls. The default width is 41 pixels.
TVControlSpacingX=<number of pixels>, default = 3
Specifies the horizontal space, in pixels, between controls. The default spacing is 3 pixels.