Cakewalk Pro Audio 9

The award-winning multitrack digital audio and MIDI software for professionals.

It's your music. And it needs to be heard. On CD's. Over the Internet. On the air. On stage. Remixed in clubs. In films, videos, and interactive games. Now.

Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 is the latest version of the industry's leading multitrack digital audio and MIDI software. It's the professional's choice for creating, mixing and delivering music and sound in a wide range of media. Wherever your next project takes you, you will find that Pro Audio 9 gets you there faster!

In More Detail

Version 9 represents a new milestone in the evolution of Cakewalk Pro Audio. Through more than ten years of development and innovation, Pro Audio has continuously redefined itself and expanded its capabilities and applications.

With Version 9, Pro Audio has evolved to become an industrial strength multitrack audio workstation, which can be used for dedicated digital audio editing or seamlessly integrating multitrack audio with video, MIDI, and other media.

While many users will continue to use Pro Audio simply for its unparalleled sequencer capabilities, Pro Audio 9 is being praised by audio production engineers based solely on its digital audio capabilities. With that in mind, we invite you to take a tour of Pro Audio with a focus on its most recent evolution - as an industrial strength multitrack audio workstation.

Pro Audio provides the tools you need for making professional direct to disk recordings, with support for 24 bit/96 kHz audio and simultaneous record and playback of up to 128 tracks. Designed for high performance recording and playback, Pro Audio uses technologies such as WavePipe and asynchronous disk I/O to stream simultaneous audio without interruption to disk.

Real Time Monitoring and Marking
Pro Audio gives you a complete view of the recording process, from real time input level monitoring to CPU and disk metering. You can insert locator markers on the fly from the PC or by MIDI command while recording to quickly locate cue points when editing. For monitoring song position, Pro Audio provides a resizable, customisable display that shows measures/beats/ticks or SMPTE time.

Multiple Takes
Pro Audio provides the tools you need to get the perfect take. Simply set up Pro Audio to loop record multiple takes without interruption, with the option to store each consecutive take in the same track, or to send consecutive takes to different tracks for later auditioning.

Advanced punch-in capabilities allow you to exactly specify record points in a track, with options for recording over existing material in the track, or mixing the new take with the previously recorded.

Total Control
Control recording and playback through a floating transport control, or even control Pro Audio remotely through Cakewalk's Studio Mix controller. Through MIDI support, you can in fact control the transport and track arming from any external device that transmits MIDI messages.

Pro Audio's track view is unparalleled in its power and simplicity. Arranging clips and tracks is intuitive and instant, with seamless integration of audio and MIDI recordings. From drag and drop to advanced clip linking, Pro Audio's track view provides all the tools you need to arrange and edit your projects.

Drag, drop, cut, copy, slide, combine, paste...
Pro Audio automatically arranges recordings into clips that you can easily drag, copy, cut and paste. Designed from the ground up for Windows users, you can easily select multiple clips using standard Windows keyboard conventions or by dragging with the mouse. Once selected, rearrange clips by dragging or instantly create copied clips.

Pro Audio offers the most flexible design for working with stereo audio recordings, allowing you to place stereo clips on any track, and even combine mono and stereo clips within the same track. MIDI, mono, or stereo audio, Pro Audio lets you arrange without compromise.

While the concept of clips and drag/drop is not unique in professional audio workstations, Pro Audio's implementation goes a step beyond. An intuitive interface allows you to split and combine clips, or even select partial regions of clips. You can even link clips for streamlined editing, so that editing operations apply across all linked clips.

Arrange on the fly
Perhaps the most dynamic feature of Pro Audio's arranging and editing is the fact that it can all be done on the fly, in real time, during playback. Drag clips to new positions, copy and paste, mute, solo, and add FX while auditioning live.

For detailed editing of audio clips, Pro Audio includes a powerful multitrack audio editor, integrating all audio editing functions in a single view. Simply double click on an audio clip from the track view to open it for editing, or select multiple tracks to view and edit multiple tracks at once.

Zoom and Select
Zoom controls provide sample level viewing and editing with intelligent centering options.

Select, delete, cut, copy, paste, and trim audio waveforms using the mouse, with full control over snap grids and marker selections. Snap to zero crossing for "click free" editing and splicing, or toggle snap grids with a keystroke.

Adjust anchor points to offset clips by any amount, making it easy to align events or set reference points

• Chorus
  
• Parametric EQ
  
• Delay
  
• Flanger
  
• Pitch Shift
  
• Time Stretch
  
• Reverb
  
• Amp Simulation
  
• Graphic EQ

Pan, fade and level adjustment
Pro Audio gives you complete over pan, volume and fades, from quick 3 dB adjustments to advanced envelopes, normalising, and cross fades.

Scrubbing
Smooth audio scrubbing makes it easy to locate specific events in audio clips by scrolling through the clip while monitoring playback, similar to rocking an analogue tape reel. You can scrub through an individual clip, or a selection of multiple tracks at once.

Intelligent Waveform Analysis
Use the Remove Silence function to automatically split audio clips into individual transients, or analyse pulses to extract timings.

Undo
Pro Audio offers the most flexible undo options available, from hotkey undo of the last event to a complete undo history that lets you undo edits back to any point.

External Tools
Pro Audio even makes it easy to edit waveforms in other sound editing programs. You can launch a clip in another editor from Pro Audio's tools menu, make your edits, and the clip is updated in Pro Audio when you return. You can even undo the changes, from within Pro Audio, to the editing you performed in the external editor.

Pro Audio provides complete access to a wide range of real-time effects, from DirectX software effects to DSP effects through AudioX integration.

DirectX Effects
128 simultaneous DirectX effects, with support for real time processing and 32-bit floating point accuracy.

Insert non-destructive real-time effects to individual tracks, with direct access to effects and parameters from either console or track views.

Optimise CPU processing by patching non-destructive real-time effects on main outputs as master inserts, or insert effects on up to 16 auxiliary busses.

Use destructive effects processing to apply effects off-line to reduce CPU processing, or to apply effects to individual audio clips within a track.

Audition effects and adjust parameters in real time, with selectable audition lengths.

Pro Audio includes the following effects, which can be expanded with additional DirectX from Cakewalk or other third party manufacturers.

• Chorus
• Parametric EQ
• Graphic EQ
• Limiter
• Pitch Shift
• Time Stretch
• Reverb
• Amp Simulation
• Flanger

Outboard Effects
Automate and synchronise external effects using Pro Audio's automation and MIDI sequencing capabilities. Pro Audio provides all the tools for interfacing with MIDI controllable effects, from recording MIDI data to graphical controller editing, all perfectly in synch with your audio tracks.

Whether you prefer a console mixer view, vector mixing, or mixing from an external controller, Pro Audio provides the flexibility to get the perfect mix.

Console View
The Console View provides complete control over the mixing process. You have the flexibility to submix audio tracks with reconfigurable auxiliary busses, and group faders and knobs with absolute, relative or custom configurations.

For mixes that combine audio tracks with tracks that contain MIDI data, the console provides a single interface to mixing both audio and MIDI.

Display
While mixing, the console displays clipping and peak hold indicators, as well as tool-tips that display exact settings when adjusting knobs or sliders.

Of course you have complete control over the configuration and display of the console, with the ability to view or hide tracks, busses, master sections, and audio meters.

Automation
Record automation while mixing for volume, pan, and effects send levels, or create static snapshots of mixer settings. You can copy and paste automation from one track to another, automate groups of tracks, and even graphically edit automation data.

Vector Mixing
For precision control over mixes, Pro Audio supports vector mixing, using lines or curves. Graphically control volume and pan by drawing envelopes over audio events. Tool-tips provide precise visual feedback while dragging envelopes by displaying level and pan settings next to the mouse pointer.

Final Mixdown
When mixing down to a file, you can selectively enable/disable controller automation, volume envelopes, pan envelopes, track FX, Aux returns, and master FX. You can also mix specific tracks to specific outputs, to create submixes for surround sound, for example.

Delivery Options
Pro Audio can mix to wave files, creating either mono files, stereo files, or separate files for left and right channels.

For Internet delivery, Pro Audio directly supports Real Audio G2, Microsoft Windows Media, and MP3 encoding. Pro Audio encodes to MP3 using the highly acclaimed Fraunhofer encoder, with support for bit rates up 320 kbps and advanced options for optimising the quality of stereo mixes.

Pro Audio provides complete integration in the studio environment with support for synchronisation to external hardware and digital video.

Scoring to video
Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 allows you to import AVI, MPEG, and QuickTime Video formats, and features video playback window display; frame-accurate sync of video to your audio; audio/video scrubbing; and export to AVI.

In addition to using the new digital video sync features of Pro Audio 9, you can also "chase-lock" to SMPTE timecode for frame-by-frame accuracy to external film and video. Pro Audio 9 provides simultaneous chase-lock synchronisation of both audio and MIDI tracks to an external video or hardware device. Or if you prefer, turn off chase- lock to conserve CPU power, and synchronise to your MIDI device, sound card, or system clock.

Studio Hardware Control
Pro Audio supports MIDI sync as a master or slave, allowing you to lock Pro Audio to external drum machines or MIDI devices. In addition, support for MIDI Machine Control (MMC) allows you to control an MMC-equipped remote device via MIDI. Pro Audio lets you use MMC to start and stop playback and recording on remote MIDI devices such as tape decks, video recorders, and even other software packages. For example, you can set up your equipment and software so that the transport controls in Pro Audio send messages to an MMC equipped tape deck, which in turn starts and stops playback in response to Pro Audio via SMPTE/MTC Sync.

StudioWare
Cakewalk StudioWare provides an additional level of studio integration and automation. StudioWare lets you control studio hardware from within Cakewalk Pro Audio using a virtual control panel that emulates the hardware. Pro Audio 9 provides StudioWare panels for popular studio gear including:

• Roland VS-880
• Roland GR-30
• Roland JV-2080
• Roland UA-100
• Roland GS sound modules and synthesiser
• Yamaha 03D
• Yamaha 01v
• Yamaha SW1000
• Yamaha ProMix 01
• Tascam RC-808
• Line 6 POD
• Novation Super Bass Station
• E-mu Orbit
• More

Beyond ready-to-use StudioWare panels, Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 lets you create custom StudioWare panels for any hardware that responds to MIDI. Create specialised StudioWare panels for your studio set-up, or even a single panel for your entire studio.

Real-time MIDI FX plug-ins
Apply real-time plug-ins to your MIDI tracks in the Console view. Now you can non-destructively edit MIDI tracks and change settings on the fly. Real-time MIDI plug-ins can be used on input, applied in the Console view as track inserts, or used as off-line commands.

Version 9 adds the MIDI Session Drummer™ and Style Enhancer™ plug-ins, along with Quantize, Delay/Echo, MIDI Filter, Transpose, Velocity, and Chord Analyser.

Session Drummer™
Compose and arrange drum tracks on the fly with the new Session Drummer MIDI FX plug-in. Just drag and drop to create and arrange drum patterns in real-time, or use it off-line to arrange and save drum tracks as part of your project file.

Select from a library of professionally-recorded MIDI drum performances in a range of styles like Jazz, Country, Hip-Hop, Latin, Dance, and more. Each style includes intros, fills, main beats and endings. Just drag and drop to quickly arrange complete drum parts for playback or further editing.

Style Enhancer™
Use performance modelling in real-time to give MIDI recordings a more "human" feel. The Style Enhancer provides performance models for over thirty types of instruments and styles, including guitar leads and strumming, slap and fretless bass lines, saxophone leads, horn sections, fiddles, flutes, and more.

Create scores fast
View and edit your composition in standard notation, then print sheet music of complete arrangements or individual parts in sizeable fonts. Print 24 staves per page, along with lyrics, chord grids, dynamic markings, and enharmonic spellings.

Guitar tablature and fretboard display
In addition to standard notation, now edit and print guitar tablature with complete control over guitar type, finger span, and tuning. The customisable fretboard display lets you write songs by pointing and clicking on the strings. Or plug in a MIDI guitar or other MIDI instrument and the fretboard displays the fingering while you record.

For practising and teaching, just load and play any MIDI file to view the fingering and tablature together in real-time. Even slow down the tempo to learn new parts. Includes, major, minor, and pentatonic practice scales.

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Other editing views

• Multitrack Event List: When you need to get down to details, view and edit a list of all selected events occurring in all selected tracks. Use the new display filter to view only the event types you choose.
• Synchronised Lyrics: A dedicated Lyrics view with selectable font sizes displays scrolling text during record or playback. Lyrics are automatically synchronised to notes on a track.
• Tempo Maps: Draw tempo changes and view tempo maps that affect audio and MIDI in real-time.
• Tempo List: Display tempo changes in a convenient list format. This makes precise tempo editing much

Pro Audio 9 - the sound solution.
If you're evaluating software products for multitrack audio production today, it's important to remember where you might need to go tomorrow. Why limit yourself to a tool with a limited scope of capabilities?

Pro Audio 9 delivers the most extensive set of multitrack audio production tools available for the Windows workstation. Whether you need sample-level audio waveform editing, real-time effects processing and mixing, or audio mastering for CDs, film, video or the Internet-- Pro Audio provides a complete suite of high-performance digital audio capabilities that take you from creation to delivery.

Beyond that, Pro Audio also provides you with innovative tools for MIDI recording, composition, multimedia control and studio automation. All this, seamlessly integrated into the multitrack digital audio environment.

Best of all, Pro Audio is an expandable, upgradable tool that grows along with your professional demands. Backed by the industry's most successful developer of music and sound software.

Wherever your next multitrack project may take you, Pro Audio 9 gets you there faster.

New Features in V9

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• WavePipe™ technology for faster audio effects processing, mixing and track playback on Windows audio cards.
• Export audio to MP3, RealSystem G2, and Windows Media Advanced Streaming Format for delivering music and sound on the Internet. Includes the patented Fraunhofer MP3 Encoder technology.
• Advanced support for professional audio cards using AudioX technology. AudioX-compatible cards include the Yamaha DSP Factory, Sonorous STUDI/O, Digital Audio Labs CardDeluxe, and others.
• Analogue-tape style audio scrubbing for smooth, accurate queuing and auditioning of audio tracks.
• Enhanced mixdown options for bouncing audio tracks and mastering to stereo, mono, and dual mono wave file formats at variable bit depths.
• Guitar tablature editing and printing with synchronised, real-time fretboard display.
• AmpSim Lite audio plug-in for adding vintage amp simulation to digital audio tracks.
• Chromatic Tuner display for tuning guitars or other instruments through a PC audio card.
• System meters provide real-time visual feedback over CPU and disk activity to monitor system capabilities.
• All-new, context-sensitive, searchable online help system.
• Over thirty other usability enhancements, including global mute/solo/record, enhanced MIDI patch browsing and organising, drag-and-drop enhancements, MIDI and audio effects presets, and others

• Platforms supported: Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT
• Maximum simultaneous audio tracks: 128
• Total MIDI and audio tracks: 256
• Unlimited level of undo/redo
• Undo History, which lets you restore previous versions of a file within the same editing session
• Multiple dockable toolbars
• Familiar tape recorder-like transport controls (Rewind, Stop, Play, Record)
• Linked clips for improved pattern-based sequencing (edit one clip, and automatically update all other sibling clips)
• Double-click clips to open any view
• Split and combine clips
• Real-time processing of editing commands
• SMPTE/MTC support for syncing to film/video
• MIDI Sync (smart FSK) support (master and slave)
• MIDI Machine Control (MMC) support
• Key Macros (assign various commands to keyboard or MIDI hotkeys)
• Looping (recording and playback)
• Display and manipulation of loop points and punch in/out points in views
• Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete
• Display time in measures, beats, and ticks, or in SMPTE time
• Flexible methods to select events (select by filter, by time, select discontiguous events, etc.)
• Create templates to use as foundation when starting new songs
• Automate volume, panning, and other controllers during mixdown
• Supports the following event types: Note, Key Aftertouch, Controller, Patch/Bank Change, Channel Aftertouch, Pitch Wheel, RPN, NRPN, Sysx Bank, Sysx Data, Text, Lyric, MCI Command, Wave Audio, Expression, Hairpin, Chord
• Cakewalk Application Language (CAL) for custom editing commands and macros
• Keep multiple files open simultaneously
• Drag and drop events between simultaneously open files
• Drag and drop project files, MIDI files and wave files from Windows Explorer, Windows Desktop, Virtual Jukebox and Musician's Toolbox III into Cakewalk
• Insert Time/Measures
• Insert Series of Controllers: insert a series of controller events based on a starting and ending value (create fade ins/outs, etc.)
• Insert Series of Tempos: insert a series of tempo changes based on a starting and ending tempo (create accelerandos and ritardandos, etc.)
• Flexible Drag & Drop and Paste options (blend new and existing material, replace old material with new material, move old material over to make room for new material)
• Lasso Zoom
• Zoom Faders
• Create new clips from selected events (quickly separate musical phrases for easier editing, etc.)
• Big Time view to display the songs current time in any font and size
• Playlist of up to 128 songs (optional delay before playing each song)
• Instrument Definitions to see and select patches, banks, controllers, and notes by name
• Support for SoundFonts
• Mute, Solo and Record/Arm buttons for each track
• Context-sensitive online Help
• Tempo Ratio buttons (customisable; temporarily change the tempo during playback/recording with the touch of a button)
• Flexible navigation tools (jump to markers, next/previous markers, measures, specific times, beginning, end)
• Extensive use of inspector pop-up menus to access commonly used commands
• Unlimited number of user presets for most editing commands
• Clone tracks
• Temporarily transpose, time-shift, and scale velocities of individual MIDI tracks on-the-fly
• Snap To and Move By Snap Resolution feature to move, cut, split and insert events at definable time intervals
• Track Sorting (by criteria)
• Manual Track Sorting (drag and drop)
• Scrub both MIDI and audio data (audio scrubbing simulates the smooth rocking of an analogue reel-to-reel tape)
• Reset command to automatically shut off stuck notes
• Tip of the Day at start-up (optional)
• Compatible with earlier version of Cakewalk software (load old WRK files, and save as Cakewalk 3.0 for Windows files)
• Mute, Solo, and Arm buttons in Piano Roll and Audio views
• Specify minimum clip duration
• CPU and Disk meters

Editing Views

• Track/Clips view for graphical editing of song structure
• Audio view for graphical editing of audio events
• Piano Roll view (multitrack) for graphical editing of MIDI note and controller events
• Console view for mixing audio and MIDI tracks and adding effects (supports automation and remote control)
• Staff view (music notation, percussion notation, and guitar tablature; can be printed)
• Tempo view for graphical editing of tempo changes (with option to stretch audio data when changing tempos)
• Tempo list
• Event List view (can be printed)
• Lyrics view (can be printed)
• Markers view (can be printed)
• Meter/Key view
• System Exclusive (Sysx) view (8192 banks per file)
• StudioWare view to control external MIDI gear

Integrated MIDI & Digital Audio Editing

• Slide MIDI and audio events as well as markers by: measures, ticks, seconds, and frames
• Quantize (with stretch audio and audition option)
• Swing Quantize (with stretch audio and audition option)
• Groove Quantize (with stretch audio and audition option)
• Draw Tempo Changes to audio and MIDI in Tempo View
• Length: change the start time and duration of all selected events by a certain percentage (now with stretch audio option)
• Transpose: chromatically pitch shift audio & MIDI (with diatonic option for MIDI)
• Fit to Time: make the current selection fit a specific duration (with stretch audio option)
• Fit Improvisation: create a new tempo map based on the number of events in a specific track (with stretch audio option)
• Interpolate: search for events that meet certain criteria, and change their properties
• Retrograde: reverse the order
  of selected events
• Scale Velocity: scale the velocities of selected events
• Deglitch filter

Audio Features

• 32-bit Audio Mix Engine
• Real-time 32-bit, floating-point, stereo effects processing
• 16-, 18-, 20-, 22- and 24-bit audio at variable sampling rates: 11.025, 22.05, 44.1, 48, 96 kHz
• WavePipe technology for ultra-low latency when mixing and adjusting affects parameters in real-time
• AudioX support for complete control of advanced audio hardware with AudioX driver
• True interleaved stereo support
• Vector-based mixing ("envelope" mixing for audio volume and pan)
• "Anchor" points for audio events
• Intelligent and automatic file management to conserve disk space (no need to name files; simply press record and let Cakewalk software take care of organising the audio files)
• Audio layered loop record and playback
• Mixdown multitrack audio to stereo ("bounce" audio tracks in order to add more audio tracks than your system can normally handle)
• Graphic EQ
• Parametric EQ
• Gain Change (3dB Louder, 3dB Quieter)
• Normalise
• Reverse
• Pre-programmed & custom effects presets
• Fade/Envelope
• Crossfade With customised fade curves
• Remove Silence
• Extract audio timing
• Time/Pitch stretch (w/Formant Preserving Option)
• Create Tempo Maps from audio
• Pitch Detection
• Monophonic audio-to-MIDI conversion
• Audition audio effects prior to processing
• Launch third-party wave editors from the Tools menu for additional editing of selected audio events
• Compact Audio Data for more efficient use of disk space and better performance
• Clean Audio Disk (free up disk space by deleting audio data no longer in use by Cakewalk)
• Export music and sound to RealMedia format for Internet streaming
• Cut, split, and snap audio events to zero-crossing points for click-free editing
• Import WAV files
• Export audio to WAV, Windows Media Advanced Streaming Format, RealSystem G2, and MP3
• Display audio waveform amplitude by percentage, dB, or sample
• Bounce tracks with option to include/exclude controller automation, volume envelopes, pan envelopes, track insert effects, aux return effects, and master effects
• 4-band parametric EQ hardwired to all audio tracks (optional)
• Chromatic tuner

• Maximum simultaneous real-time MIDI effects: 256
• Apply effects as track inserts
• Pre-programmed & custom effects presets
• Arpeggiator
• Quantize
• Delay/Echo
• MIDI Filter
• Transpose
• Velocity
• Chord Analyser
• Session Drummer
• Style Enhancer (performance modelling)

Record Modes

• Step Record (optional pattern-based step record)
• Sound on Sound (blend)
• Overwrite (replace)
• Loop Recording (stack takes in the same track, or store each take in a separate track)
• Auto Punch Recording (replace)
• Manually insert MIDI notes with the mouse, keyboard, or Virtual Piano

Console View

• Console View for mixing, recording and editing audio and MIDI
• Mute, Solo and Record buttons for each track
• Audio input and output meters with adjustable scale, peak hold and clipping indicators
• User-definable Auxiliary Sends for submixing audio tracks
• Master Output for each audio device
• Add audio effects as track inserts, to aux busses, or as master inserts
• Add MIDI effects as track inserts
• Access and edit effect parameters
• Apply patched effects to edit audio off-line
• Apply patched effects to edit MIDI off-line
• Select MIDI and audio inputs and outputs for individual tracks
• Select MIDI channel, bank and patch for individual MIDI tracks
• Colour-coded fader grouping (Absolute, Relative, and Custom groups)
• Control volume and pan for individual tracks, aux sends, and master outputs
• Module Manager to temporarily hide individual tracks, aux busses, and master sections
• Apply Reverb and Chorus to MIDI tracks (if your MIDI instrument supports reverb and chorus)
• Automate your mixes
• Control faders and knobs remotely via MIDI (custom support for Peavey StudioMix)
• Take "snapshots" of mixer settings
• Unnamed tracks are automatically numbered
  

Staff Notation

• Display and print up to 24 staves per page
• Print score complete with lyrics, chord symbols, guitar chord diagrams and other symbols
• Percussion notation (5-line stave and single-line stave)
• Lyrics
• Chord symbols
• Guitar tablature
• Export guitar tablature to ASCII TAB
• Guitar Fretboard pane
• Guitar chord diagrams with preview
• Extensive guitar chord library
• Create custom guitar chord fingerings
• Expression markings
• Pedal symbols
• Hairpins (crescendo and diminuendo)
• Different clefs (treble, bass, treble/bass, alto, tenor, octave-treble, percussion)
• Support for different key signature for each track
• Beam rests (optional)
• Enharmonic spellings
• Use any font and size for text (lyrics, staff name, expression text, etc.)
• Zoom in and out in the Staff view
• Choose between 9 custom notation sizes when printing

Lyrics

• Cut, copy, and paste text to and from the Lyrics view
• Automatically hyphenate syllables (optional)
• Current line is centred during playback
• Current word is highlighted during playback
• Lyrics entered in the Lyrics view are automatically displayed in the Staff view
• Display lyrics in any font and size (in both the Staff view and Lyrics view)

Video

• Open AVI, MPEG, and QuickTime Video formats.
• Video playback window display
• Frame-accurate sync of video to your audio tracks
• Audio/Video Scrubbing
• Import and Export audio from and to videos
• Export to AVI

Markers

• Display, move, edit, add and remove markers in the Track/Clips view, Piano Roll view, Audio view, Staff view, Markers view, and Markers toolbar
• Add markers on-the-fly (markers are automatically named and numbered by "takes")
• Jump to any marker
• Go to next/previous marker
• Click between two markers to automatically select all events between the markers
• Lock markers to SMPTE time
• Print a list of all markers

System Exclusive

• Playback of Sysx
• Recording of Sysx
• Editing of Sysx
• Real-time record & playback of Sysx data as events in tracks
• MIDI Sysx echo
• 8192 Bank Sysx Librarian
• Receive Sysx dumps automatically by transmitting custom Dump Request Macros

Display Options

• Unlimited custom screen layouts
• Assign screen layouts to hotkeys for instant recall
• Assign custom colours to MIDI events, text, window background, markers, clips, etc.
• Display audio by percentage, dB, or sample
• Assign custom wallpaper to the main program window
• Status bar (optional)
• Tooltips (optional)

StudioWare

• Basic StudioWare panels: General MIDI editor, Roland GS Editor, Creative Labs AWE Editor
• Advanced StudioWare panels: Yamaha O3D, Yamaha ProMix 01, Yamaha SW1000, Roland VS-880, Roland JV-2080, Roland GR-30, Roland UA-100, Roland SC-88, Mackie OTTO 1604, MMC, Novation Bass Station, Novation Super Bass Station, Novation Drum Station, E-MU Orbit, Tascam RC-808, Line 6 POD, more
• StudioWare view Design Mode to create your own custom StudioWare panels

Hardware Support

• Instrument Definitions for over 200 popular MIDI instruments
• Patch Browser (quickly find any patch/instrument in any bank)
• Support for individual Windows-compatible sound cards 16-bit to 24-bit/11kHz to 96kHz)
• Support for Multi-channel sound cards
• Simultaneous use of multiple-installed sound cards
• Yamaha DSP Factory (DS2416 audio card) support

Additional Content and Applications

• On-screen Cakewalk TECHniques Tutorials
• Over 30 demo files from Yes keyboardist Igor Khoroshev, LA film scoring team Shawn Clement & Sean Murray
• Virtual Piano on screen MIDI instrument
• Virtual Jukebox
• Creative Labs SoundFont Manager
• JAMMER Hit Session
• Drag and Drop Drummer
• VAMTECH Drumtrax drum files (used by Session Drummer MIDI plug-in)

Real-time Audio Effects Processing

• Maximum simultaneous real-time audio effects: 256
• Apply effects as track inserts, to aux busses, or as master inserts
• Support for third-party DirectX audio plug-ins
• Pre-programmed & custom effects presets
• Pitch Shifter (off-line and real-time)
• FX Audio Effects Pack (reverb & chorus)
• CFX 2 Band EQ (32-bit, mono)
• CFX Chorus (32-bit, mono)
• CFX Delay/Echo (32-bit, mono)
• CFX Flanger (32-bit, mono)
• CFX Reverb (32-bit, mono)
• FX Parametric EQ (32-bit, stereo)
• FX Stereo Chorus (32-bit, stereo)
• FX Stereo Delay (32-bit, stereo)
• FX Stereo Flanger (32-bit, stereo)
• FX Stereo Reverb (32-bit, stereo)
• AmpSim Lite (amplifier simulation)
• Audition effects before processing

The Musician’s Toolbox III (Deluxe version only)

• Sonic Implants SoundFont banks and MIDI files
• DNA groove files with audio files
• Drumtrax library of MIDI drum files
• Big Fish Audio stereo wave audio loops
• Oddball Film + Video AVI clips
• CINENET® AVI clips from QuickStock library
• CanvasMan 32 CE
• Cakewalk Audio Browser
• 12 Advanced Cakewalk TECHniques Tutorials

System Requirements

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Windows 95/98:

Minimum Requirements
Pentium 200 MHz or higher; 64 MB RAM

Recommended Requirements
Pentium 300 MHz or higher; 128 MB RAM

Windows NT 4.0 SP5:

Minimum Requirements
Pentium 300 MHz or higher; 128 MB RAM

Windows-compatible MIDI interface and/or sound card required. Sound card required for digital audio record/playback, Full duplex sound card (Montego, Montego II, Fortissimo, SB Live etc.) required for simultaneous record and playback, Sound Card with Multi I/O or Multiple Sound Cards required for multiple recording on separate tracks. Number of simultaneous Audio tracks and effects are system dependant including Hard Disk performance. CD-ROM required for installation.