CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO, User Manual

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mouse button, you see a pop-up menu that provides quick access to
many common operations.
The project is the center of your work in Pro Audio. If youÕre a
musician, a project might contain a song, a jingle, or a movement of a
symphony. If youÕre a post-production engineer, a project might contain a
30-second radio commercial or a lengthy soundtrack for a Þlm or
videotape production. By default, every project is stored in a Þle (known
as a
work Þle ). The normal Þle extension for a work Þle is. wrk .
Pro Audio organizes the sound and music in your project into tracks,
clips, and events.
Tracks are used to store the sound or music made by each instrument or
voice in a project. For example, a song that is arranged for four
instruments and one vocalist would normally have 5 tracksÑone for
each instrument and one for the vocals. Each project can have up to 256
tracks. Some of these tracks may be used in your Þnished project, while
others can hold alternate takes, backup tracks, and variations that you
might want to keep for future use. Each track is made up of one or many
clips.
Clips are the pieces of sound and music that make up your tracks. A clip
might contain a horn solo, a drum break, a bass or guitar riff, a voice-
over, a sound effect like the hoot of an owl, or an entire keyboard
performance. A track can contain a single clip or dozens of different clips,
and you can easily move clips from one track to another.
Events are the individual bits of sound and music that make up a clip. A
note played on a piano or bass is an event, as is the pressing of a sustain
pedal on a keyboard or the turn of a pitch wheel. Each continuous piece
of digital audio in your project is an event.
Views
Pro Audio displays your project in windows on the screen that are known
as
views . You can have many views open at once, all showing the same
project. When you edit a project in one view, the other related views are
updated automatically.
The Track View
The Track view is the main window that you use to create, display, and
work with a project. When you open a project Þle, Pro Audio displays the
Track view for the project. When you close the Track view for a project,
Pro Audio closes the Þle.