Reference Guide

1554 Beginner’s guide to Cakewalk software
Audio
You can rearrange the sound in both audio and MIDI tracks by dragging and/or copying clips. The
precision of the clips’ movement is governed by the Snap to Grid button , which you can
configure in the Control Bar’s Snap module. Additional snap settings are available in Edit >
Preferences > Customization - Snap to Grid. In the following picture, the clips in Track 1 have
been moved around to reverse their order, so instead of the first three notes of Three Blind Mice, we
now have Mice Blind Three.
A. Mice B. Blind C. Three
For more information, see:
“Track-by-track playback” on page 1554
“Connecting an instrument, home stereo, or microphone to your sound card” on page 1556
“Choosing inputs” on page 1561
“Audio recording” on page 1556
“Audio hardware (sound cards) and drivers” on page 1564
“MIDI” on page 1541
Track-by-track playback
You can change a track’s volume by dragging its volume fader (see the following figure). You can
silence a track by clicking its Mute button (any button you click lights up when it’s enabled). You
can also silence all other tracks besides one if you click a track’s Solo button . You can click
either of these buttons while a project is playing, and you can mute or solo as many tracks as you
want. You can also silence a track by archiving it, but you have to stop playback to archive or un-
archive a track. To archive or un-archive a track, click the track’s Archive button . Archiving a
track removes its data from your computer’s memory (RAM), freeing up more memory for other
tracks that you may be working on.
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