Reference Guide

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Glossary
Slip editing
Non-destructive editing process that allows the start and/or end time of an audio or MIDI clip to be
trimmed by simply dragging the front or back end of the clip.
SMPTE
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. SMPTE format measures time in hours,
minutes, seconds, and frames.
Snapshot
Collection of automation settings that become active at a specific time. When the Now Time reaches
that time, all of those particular settings take effect.
Solo
Silences all tracks except for those that are soloed during playback and recording. Multiple tracks
can be soloed at once.
Split point
In the Staff view, the point at which you split a track into treble and bass staves. Notes at or above
the split point go into the treble staff, those below into the bass staff.
Staff
A set of horizontal lines developed for music notation.
Striping
Recording an analog time code signal onto a track.
Submix
A grouping of specific tracks with similar qualities and/or effects (such as a submix of guitars or
vocals). Creating submixes, by sending groups of tracks to a group specific buses for example,
allows for quick adjustments when it comes to mixing, such as muting or applying reverb to all the
vocals.
See “Routing and mixing digital audio” on page 841.
Swing
Systematic uneven spacing of notes on a timing grid, to give music a swing feel.
Sysx
Short for System Exclusive, refers to MIDI messages that only a specific device can use and
understand. Cakewalk's System Exclusive library, which can store, record, and display for viewing or
editing 256 banks, each holding any number of patches.
See “System exclusive data” on page 1139.
Sysx bank
A Sysx bank is a storage area plus some associated parameters such as a destination output and
an optional description. Each bank can hold any number of messages; the amount of data it can