Cakewalk was a

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first developed by Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. (the company later known as Cakewalk, Inc.). Originally for

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, starting with version Cakewalk 1.0 in 1987, and, beginning in 1991, for

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. Cakewalk, until version 4.0 required an

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interface card operating in intelligent mode, while 4.0 and later versions relied on the dumb

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mode only. Cakewalk was delivered in two versions, Cakewalk Pro and Cakewalk Express. The latter was a lite version limited to 25 tracks and 1 MIDI output port. The Express version was sometimes bundled with hardware such as a sound card. Cakewalk was a purely MIDI based

: Although it could trigger

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files at certain points, more comprehensive audio support was not incorporated until the advent of Cakewalk Pro Audio when true support for digitized audio was added. Cakewalk Professional 1

Features

The last version of the product featured a piano roll editor, support for limited

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and a built-in

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called CAL (Cakewalk Application Language).Cakewalk DevXchange
- CAL Cakewalk was a predecessor of

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which had nearly all of the same features, including support for CAL, and was the only major DAW on the market supporting a scripting language. Cakewalk had piano roll and CAL support since the Windows 16-bit Version 3.01. Image:Cakewalk 3.01 staff views WAV.gif, Cakewalk 3.01 showing limited WAV file support. Image:Cakewalk3-display.gif, Cakewalk 3.01 showing Piano Roll, Staff and CAL windows.

References

External links

Official websiteCakewalk Forum - independent forums for Cakewalk users
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