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In the clips pane (right half) of the Track view, you can select tracks and
regions of time -- regardless of clip boundaries.
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To do so, hold the ALT key while clicking and dragging to select.
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You can easily enter the time of a Marker in fields where you are prompted
to enter an actual time value.
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To do so, press F5 while the cursor is positioned in the time field.  A
dialog will appear showing all the Markers in your workfile.  Select the
desired Marker and press OK.  The time of the marker will be inserted into
the field.
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You can choose to enable or disable the display of vertical lines in the
Clips pane of the Track view.
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To do so, click the right mouse button, and choose View Options.
Then check or uncheck Display Vertical Rules as desired.
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You can move from one location to another.
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To do so: Rise to a standing position. Move your LEFT foot forward
and shift your weight onto it. Move your RIGHT foot forward and shift
your weight onto that foot.
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Repeat these steps until you arrive at your desired location.
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You can visit our web site, which includes news, technical information, free
downloads, and lots more cool stuff.
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To do so, choose Help | Cakewalk Web Site. This will automatically
launch most browsers. If yours doesn't, then start it manually and
go to "http://www.cakewalk.com/".
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You can quickly create a Marker during playback or recording, even if
you're not in the Markers view.
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To do so, press F11. This is a shortcut for the Insert | Marker command.
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You can insert Markers whenever a MIDI pedal or key combination is pressed.
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To do so, choose Settings | Key Bindings, and create a MIDI key binding
for the Insert | Marker command.
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You can jump to any Marker by pressing F5 twice.  
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Pressing F5 the first time opens the GoTo | Time dialog. Pressing F5 the
second time opens a list of Markers you can pick from. The list includes
Markers you have created, plus various predefined Markers (Now, Beginning,
End, From and Thru).
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In any Cakewalk dialog which has a time field, you can quickly enter
the value of a Marker.
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To do so, press F5. This opens a list of Markers you can pick from.
The list includes Markers you have created, plus various predefined Markers
(Now, Beginning, End, From and Thru).
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You can quickly set up a time selection in any of the graphical views by dragging
the mouse cursor over the horizontal ruler.  
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If you first press the Snap button, the time selection will be evenly incremented 
by the Snap duration.
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For persistent time selections, you can insert a pair of markers in any graphical 
view: one at the beginning time and another at the end time.  
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Clicking between the markers will now select the time range.
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In the Panel/StudioWare view, you can create customized "floating" toolbars by
assigning a widget's Kind property to Binding.
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If you want to tell Cakewalk what kind of audio material an audio track contains,
use the Patch column in the Track view.
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It is not necessary to specify the audio material for each individual audio event.
The Patch column lets you specify the material for all audio events in a track.
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If you want to enter a track name in the Track view that starts with the letter
"R" or "W", press Enter or F2 first before you type the name.
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The reason is because "R" is the hotkey for Record, and "W" is the hotkey for
Rewind.  Other characters are not special, and will automatically start inserting
text.
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Cakewalk determines its MIDI port numbers by the order (top to bottom) of the
highlighted Output devices in Settings | MIDI Devices.
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If you often zoom views in and out, you might want to save different view layouts
using the View | Layouts command.  You can then assign those layouts to hotkeys
with the Key Bindings feature.
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This allows you to quickly jump to specific zoom levels, without repeatedly
clicking the zoom buttons.
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You can combine audio events to free up some of the available audio polyphony.
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This is similar to bouncing tracks on a multi-track tape recorder, and will
enable you to play more parts than your system would normally be capable of if
there were a lot of individual, overlapping, audio events.  You combine audio
events in the Audio view, not in the Clips pane.
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If you keep adding audio tracks, eventually the overall volume will get too high,
causing clipping distortion.
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One simple solution is to make use of the Vel+ velocity offset in each audio track.
Enter a negative number to decrease the track's playback level.
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