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which you select by clicking the note icons in the Staff view toolbar. You may want to display the
Now Time by choosing
View-Big Time
.
4.
Enter a note by clicking the string and fret where you would play the note.
The note appears on the Fretboard, in the Staff, and in the TAB if you have generated one (you can
generate a Quick TAB by choosing
Quick TAB
from the tablature dropdown menu that you open
by clicking the dropdown arrow on the Staff View Layout button).
5.
If you are entering a chord, continue clicking notes at the same Now Time. To move ahead, press
Shift-Right Arrow and click a new note duration, if desired.
You can delete a note right after you enter it by pressing Ctrl+Z, or at any time by clicking the Eraser
tool and clicking the note in the notation or TAB staffs.
Cakewalk gives you several options to play and hear the notes in your track:
•
Scrubbing enables you to click each note in the Fretboard and hear it play. Select the Scrub tool
and click the note.
•
Scrub strumming enables you to “strum” chords by dragging the Scrub tool through a chord. With
the Scrub tool selected, drag through a chord on the Fretboard from below it or above it and back
and forth.
•
Ctrl+Right Arrow/Ctrl+Left Arrow moves the cursor through the track, playing each note as it
reaches it.
Working with Percussion
The Staff view can display percussion tracks on a five-line percussion staff or on a single percussion
line. The staff usually displays notes for a drum set or multiple percussion instruments; the line is used
to display notes for a single instrument (although it need not be so).
SONAR lets you control the appearance of percussion staffs in considerable detail. You can display
percussion notes using several different types of noteheads and articulation symbols, and you can map
any percussion sound to any position on the percussion staff (in a percussion track, each MIDI note
value designates a different percussion instrument; mapping lets you display any instrument in any
position on the staff, regardless of the underlying MIDI note value). You can save your settings as a
preset, and use them again on other tracks and in other projects. SONAR supplies a standard preset
based on the General MIDI percussion standard and popularly accepted percussion staff positions and
noteheads.
Setting Up a Percussion Track
Before you use the percussion capabilities of the Staff view, your percussion track should be set up
correctly. This will allow you to hear the proper sounds when placing notes and during playback, and
will allow you to see the correct percussion instrument names rather than generic note names in the
Piano Roll view, Event List view, and Percussion Notation dialog box.
To Set Up a Percussion Track
1.
Right-click on the track in the Track pane and choose
Track Properties
to open the Track
Properties dialog box.
2.
Assign the output and channel for your percussion instrument. For example, if the output is
assigned to a sound card that supports General MIDI, use channel 10.
3.
Click Instruments to open the Assign Instruments dialog box.
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