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- $Header: /SRC32/WCW/TipOfTheDay.txt 10 4/23/97 5:16p Phil $
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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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- Beer and pizza go well together.
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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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