Cakewalk Pro Audio 9
Industrial-strength
multitrack
recording and mixing
It's your music.
And it needs to be heard.
On CDs. Over the Internet. On the air. On stage.
Remixed in clubs. In films, videos and interactive games.
Now.
Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 is the new version of
the industry’s leading multitrack digital audio
and MIDI software. It’s the professional’s choice
for creating, mixing and delivering music and
sound in a wide range of media.
Wherever your next project takes you, you will
find that Pro Audio 9 gets you there faster.
Multitrack console for recording and mixing audio and MIDI
New in Version 9
- WavePipeTM technology
for faster audio effects processing,
mixing and track playback
on Windows audio cards.
- Export audio to MP3, RealSystem G2, and
Windows Media Advanced
Streaming Format
for delivering music and
sound on the Internet.
Includes the patented
Fraunhofer MP3
Encoder technology
- Advanced support for professional
audio cards using AudioX
technology AudioX-compatible cards
include the Yamaha DSP
Factory, Sonorous STUDI/O,
Digital Audio Labs CardDeluxe,
and others.
- Analog-tape style audio
scrubbing for smooth, accurate
queuing and auditioning
of audio tracks.
- Enhanced mixdown options
for bouncing audio tracks
and mastering to stereo,
mono, and dual mono wave
file formats at variable
bit depths.
- Guitar tablature editing
and printing with synchronized,
real-time fretboard display
- AmpSim Lite audio plug-in
for adding vintage amp
simulation to digital
audio tracks.
- Chromatic Tuner display
for tuning guitars or other
instruments through a
PC audio card.
- System meters provide
real-time visual feed- back
over CPU and disk activity
to monitor system capabilities.
- All-new, context-sensitive,
searchable online help
system.
- Over thirty other usability
enhancements, including
global mute/solo/record,
enhanced MIDI patch browsing
and organizing, drag-and- drop
enhancements, MIDI and
audio effects presets,
and others.
Produce the maximum.
New! Wave PipeTM Technology
Pro Audio 9 incorporates
new WavePipe audio technology
for breakthrough effects
processing, mixing, and
track playback performance
using standard Windows
audio cards. WavePipe eliminates
system latency by providing
direct communication
to wave-compatible sound cards.
Get professional-level
response to mixing, muting,
solo, record, effects
parameters, and other
real-time audio processing.
New! Advanced support
for AudioX hardware
Beyond the performance
gains achieved with WavePipe,
Pro Audio 9 supports
advanced audio capabilities
provided on hardware
sup- porting the new AudioX
industry standard. AudioX
delivers direct control
over advanced features
in audio hardware such
as DSP effects, SMPTE
options, low-latency
mixing, auxiliary basses,
and patching. AudioX-compatible
hardware includes the
Yamaha DSP Factory, Sonorus
STUDI/O, Digital Audio
Labs CardDeluxe, and
other audio cards.
AudioX console for Yamaha DSP Factory
New! Internet Delivery
Support for MP3, RealSystem
G2, and Windows Media
Advanced Streaming Fornat allows
you to mixdown and encode
to the most popular compression
formats for delivering music
and sound over the Internet.
In fact, Pro Audio 9
gives you the highest- quality
MP3 encoding available
with patented Fraunhofer
MP3 compression technology
built directly into the
application. The result
is professional encoding
at rates of up to 320 kbps,
with complete control
over all encoding parameters.
Support for 24-bit/
96 kHz audio
Enhance your audio quality
with 24-bit sound. Record
16-, 18-, 20-, 22-,
and 24-bit audio at variable
sampling rates of 11.025,
22.050, 44.1, 48 and
96 kHz. With 24-bit
audio at 96 kHz, Pro
Audio 9 supports the
highest resolution available
from today’s professional
audio hardware.
Recording and mixing console
Take control with Pro
Audio’s multitrack console
to record and mix your
digital audio arid Mll)I
projects. The console enables
you to ann, record and
mute tracks, apply processing
effects, create sub-mixes, and
automate volume and
panning levels—all in
real-time.
Add up to 256 real-time
effects to tracks with
included MIDI effects,
32-bit audio effects
or any other DirectX-compatible audio
plug-ins. Enhanced Mixdown
options provide additional
control for bouncing tracks,
or for the final mix,
such as the ability to
niixdown to stereo,
mono, or dual mono (independent
left and right) wave
files. In addition, you
can specify whether
or not to apply controller
automation, volume and
pan envelopes, track
effects, master effects,
and aux returns.
32-bit, real-time audio effects
processing
Use 32-bit, floating-point
processing for faster real-time
effects. Use effects
in real-time as channel
inserts, auxiliary sends
or master effects. Apply
real-time effects to
audio as off-line edits
if desired. Effects
include opti- mized 4-band
Parametric EQ, Chorus,
Reverb, Delay/Echo, Flange,
and Pitch Shifting.
4-band parametric EQ
Edit and arrange tracks fast
Pro Audio 9 gives you
the flexibility to be more
creative. Easily record
multiple takes on separate
tracks, then copy and
paste different sections
to create the ideal
performance. Use the
global Track view to
quickly arrange arid audition
tracks.
- Arrange and edit multitrack
sections of music using
flexible clips
- Ideal for loop-based
recordings and remixes
- Drag/drop, split, combine,
insert and delete clips
quickly
- Assign names and colors
to MIDI and audio clips
- Link clips for streamlined
editing of repeated loops
- Zoom in/out on tracks
and clips with a single
keystroke or mouse click
- Right-click clips to
open the appropriate editing
view
- Add markers to organize
sections and navigate
through projects quickly
Global track/clip editing
Real-time MIDI FX plug-ins
Apply real-time plug-ins
to your MIDI tracks
in the Console view.
Now you can non-destruc- tively
edit MIDI tracks and
change settings on the
fly. Real-time MIDI
plug-ins can be used
on input, applied in
the Console view as
track inserts, or used
as off-line commands.
Version 9 adds time MIDI
Session Drummer and Style
Enhancer” plug-ins, along
with Quantize, Delay/Echo,
MIDI Filter, Transpose, Velocity,
and Chord Analyzer.
New! Session DrummerTM
Compose and arrange drum
tracks on the fly with
the new Session Drummer
MIDI FX plug-in. Just
drag and drop to create
and arrange drum patterns
in real-time, or use
it otf-line to arrange
and save drum tracks
as part of your project
file.
Select from a library
of professionally-recorded MIDI
drum performances in
a range of styles like
Jazz, Country, Hip-Hop,
Latin, Dance, and more.
Each style includes
intros, fills, main beats
and endings. Just drag
and drop to quickly arrange
complete drum parts
for playback or further
editing.
Session Drummer MIDI FX plug-in
New! Style EnhancerTM
Use performance modeling
in real-time to give MIDI
recordings a more “human”
feel. The Style Enhancer
provides performance
models for over thirty
types of instruments
and styles, including
guitar leads and strumming,
slap and fretless bass
lines, saxophone leads,
horn sections, fiddles,
flutes, and more.
Style Enhancer MIDI FX plug-In
Add DirectX audio plug-ins
When you’re ready to expand
your suite of audio processing
effects, just add more DirectX-compatible
audio plug-ins. Professional-quality
DirectX plug-ins are
widely available from
the industry’s leading
software developers,
including Cakewalk's
own Audio FX plug-in
series (sold separately).
Audio FX 3 SoundStage (sold separately)
Waveform editing
Graphically edit any
combination of stereo
and mono waveform events
on single or multiple tracks.
View and edit audio
at sample-level; split/combine
audio events; draw non-destructive
volume and panning automation
data; remove silence;
normalize audio levels;
adjust discrete event
velocities; add fade
envelopes and crossfades;
perform time/pitch stretching; extract
audio timing; and perform
other advanced audio
editing operations.
Audio waveform editing
Synchronize digital video to
audio
Import AVI, MPEG, and
QuickTime videos directly
into Pro Audio 9. Features
a video playback window
display; frame-accurate
sync of video to audio
tracks; audio/video
scrubbing; and exporting
of video and audio back
to AVI. Creating digital
video sound tracks has
never been easier.
Import and sync digital video
Produce film and video soundtracks
In addition to using
the digital video sync features
of Pro Audio 9, you
can also “chase- lock” tool
SMPTE timecode for frame-by-frame accuracy
to film and video. Pro
Audio 9 provides simultaneous
chase-lock synchronization
of both audio and MIDI
tracks to an external SMPTE
clock source.
Automate your studio
with Cakewalk StudioWareTM
Cakewalk StudioWare brings
a new level of studio
integration and automation
to the Windows 95/98/NT
workstation. StudioWare lets
you control studio hardware
from within Cakewalk
Pro Audio using a virtual
control panel that emulate
the hardware.
Pro Audio 9 provides
Studio Ware panels for popular
studio gear, and you
can even create your
own. Additional StudioWare
panels are provided free
on www.cakewalk.com
as they become available.
New StudioWare control panels
for version 9 include
the Roland GR-30 MIDI
guitar synthesizer and
the Line 6 POD multi-effects
unit.
StudioWare control panel for Line 6 POD
Create scores fast
View and edit your composition
in standard notation,
then print sheet music
complete arrangements
or individual parts in
sizable fonts. Print 24
staves per page, along
with lyrics, chord grids,
dynamic markings, and enharmonic
spellings.
Notation editing
New! Guitar tablature
and fretboard display
In addition to standard
notation, now edit and print
guitar tablature with
complete control over
guitar type, finger span,
and tuning. The customizable
fretboard display lets
you write songs by pointing
and clicking on the strings.
Or plug in a MIDI guitar
or other MIDI instrument
and the fretboard displays
the fingering while you
record.
For practicing and teaching,
just load and play any
MIDI file to view the
fingering and tablature
together in real-time.
Even slow down the tempo
to learn new parts. Includes
major, minor, and pentatonic
practice scales.
Guitar tablature and real-time fretboard display
New! Multitrack Piano Roll
With the most flexible
and intuitive multitrack
Piano Roll view available,
you have the ability
to display, select, and
edit multiple tracks
of MIDI notes and Controller
data simultaneously.
Take complete control
over which tracks should
be displayed, the order
in which they are layered,
and which tracks should
be active for selection,
editing, or playback.
Point and click to edit
notes, draw volume changes,
velocity levels, and
other MIDI data. Percussion
tracks are displayed
with instrument names.
Multitrack Piano Roll editing
Other editing views
- Multitrack Event List:
When you need to get down
to details, view and
edit a list of all selected
events occurring in all
selected tracks. Use the
new display filter to
view only the event types
you choose.
- Synchronized Lyrics: A
dedicated Lyrics view with
selectable font sizes
displays scrolling text
during record or playback.
Lyrics are automatically
synchronized to notes
on a track.
- Tempo Maps: Draw tempo
changes and view tempo
maps that affect audio
and MIDI in real-time.
- Tempo List: Display tempo
changes in a con- venient
list format. This makes
precise tempo editing
much faster.
PRO AUDIO 9 HIGHLIGHTS
Global Features
- 256 tracks of digital audio and MID
- Play back up to 128 simultaneous
audio tracks
- Unlimited level of undo/redo
- Dockable toolbars
- Custom screen layouts arid presets
- loop- pattern- and linear-based recording
and editing
- Right-click Clips to open any view
- Cut, copy, paste split combine audio
and MIDI clips
- Drag & drop editing of audio and
MIDI clips
- Real time non-destructive and
destructive editing
- Global track looping (recording and playback)
- Display, edit, and navigate with text
markers in almost all editing windows
- Create templates to use as a foundation
when starting new projects
- Automate volume panning, and other
effects during mixdowri
- Supports the following MIDI event types:
Note, Key Aftertouch, Controller,
Patch/Bank Change, Channel
Aftertouch, Pitch Wheel, RPN, NRPN,
Sysx Bank, Sysx Data, Text, Lyric, MCI
Command, Wave Audio, Expression,
Hairpin, Chord
- Cakewalk Application Language (CAL)
for custom- editing commands and
hotkey macros (assign various commands
to keyboard or MIDI hotkeys)
- Edit multiple files simultaneously
- Insert series of controllers or tempos
- Big Time view to display the song's current
time in any font and size
- Playlist of up to 128 songs (optional
delay before playing each song)
- Instrument Definitions to see and select
patches, banks, controllers, and notes
by name
- Support for downloadable SoundFonts
- Mute, Solo and Record/Arm buttons for
each track
- Context sensitive searchable online help
- Tempo offset buttons
- User presets tor most editing
commands
- Clone tracks
- Transpose, time-shift, and scale veloci
ties of individual MIDI tracks on-the-fly
- Track sorting
- Step Record, Sound on Sound (blend),
Overwrite (replace), Loop, Auto Punch
modes
- Unlimited custom screen layouts
- Assign screen layouts to hotkeys for
instant recall
- Drag-and drop audio and MIDI drum
loops included
Editing Views
- Track/Clips
- Audio waveforms (stereo and mono)
- Multitrack Piano Roll/Controller
- Console view for arming, recording muting,
mixing audio and MIDI tracks and
adding real-time effects (supports
automation and remote centroll
- Staff view with percussion notation
- Guitar tablature display with synchronized
fretboard
- Tempo view for graphical editing of
tempo changes (with option to stretch
audio data when changing tempos)
Now includes tempo list
- Multitrack Event List
- Lyrics view
- System Exclusive (Sysx) bank
Integrated Audio/MIDI Editing
- Quantize, Swing Quantize, Groove
Quantize
- Draw tempo changes to audio and MIDI
in Tempo view
- Length charge the start time and dura-
tion of all selected events by a certain
percentage (now with stretch audio
option)
- Transpose: chromatically pitch-shift
audio & MIDI (with diatonic option
for MIDI)
- Fit-to-Time, Fit Improvisation
- Interpolate, Retrograde, Scale Velocity
Audio Features
- WavePipe audio technology for high-per-
formance effects processing, mixing and
track playback
- Advanced support for on-board DSP,
mixing, aux busses and patching with
AudioX-compatible audio cards (includ-
ing Yamaha DSP Factory, Sonorus
STUDI/O Digital Audio Labs CardDeluxe,
and others)
- Real-time, 32-bit, Stereo effects process-
ing and mixing
- Up to 24-bit audio resolution, with vari-
able sampling rates of 11.025, 22.05,
44.1, 48, and 96 kHz
- Vector-based automation of panning and
volume (envelope mixing for audio)
- Anchor points for defining audio sync
and edits
- Layered loop record and playback
- Mixdown multitrack audio to stereo
- Gain Change (3dB Louder, 3dB Quieter)
- Normalize
- Reverse
- Pre-programmed & custom effects
presets
- Fade/Envelope and Cross-fade
- Extract audio timing for quantizing and
tempo maps
- Time/Pitch stretch (with formant-
preserving option)
- Monophonic audio-to-MIDI conversion
- Export audio to WAV format
- Display audio waveform amplitude by
percentage, dB. or samples
Real-time Audio Effects
Processing
- Up to 256 real-time effects during
playback
- Apply effects as track inserts, to aux
busses, or as master inserts
- Optimized 4-band parametric EQ
available on all audio tracks
- Support for third-party DirectX audio
plug-ins for additional real-time effects
- Pre-programmed & custom presets
- Pitch Shifter EQ Chorus, Delay/Echo,
Flanger, Reverb
- AmpSim Lite for vintage amp Simulation
Cakewalk MIDI FX
- Real-time MIDI effects for input and
playback
- Includes Arpeggiator, Quantize,
Delay/Echo, MIDI Filter. Transpose,
Velocity, and Chord Analyzer
- Session Drummer MIDI FX plug in for
creating and arranging drum tracks
in resl-time
- Style Enhancer MIDI FX plug-in for
applying performance models to
MIDI tracks
Console View
- Console View for mixing recording and
editing audio and MIDI
- Mute, Solo and Record buttons for
each track
- Audio input and output meters with
adjustable scale, peak hold and clipping
indicators
- User-definable Auxiliary Sends for sub-
mixing audio tracks
- Master Output for each audio device
- Add audio effects as track inserts, to aux
busses, or as master inserts
- Add MIDI effects as track inserts
- Access and edit effect parameters
- Color-coded fader grouping
- Control volume and pan for individual
tracks, aux sends, and master outputs
- Apply Reverb and Chorus to MIDI tracks
- Control faders and knobs remotely
via MIDI
- Take “snapshots” of mixer settings
Staff Notation
- Display/print 24 staves per page
- Print scores complete with lyrics, chord
symbols, guitar chords, TAB and other
symbols
- Percussion notation (5-line stave and sin-
gle-line stave)
- Extensive guitar chord library
- Create custom guitar chord fingerings
- Expression, pedal hairpin markings
- Enharmonic spellings
- Use any font and size for text (lyrics, staff
name, expression text, etc.)
- Choose between 9 custom notation
sizes when printing Guitar Tablature and
Fretboard Display (major, minor, pentatonic
practice scale files included)
Sync to Film and Video
- SMPTE/MTC support for synchronizing to
film/video and external tape machines
- MIDI Sync (smart FSK) support
(master and slave)
- MIDI Machine Control (MMC) support
Import digital video
- Open AVI, MPEG and QuickTime video formats.
- Video playback windown display
- Frame-accurate sync of video to
audio tracks
- Audio/video scrubbing
- Import and export audio from and to
videos
- Export audio and video back to AVI
-
System Exclusive Support
- Record/playback/edit Sysx events
- MIDI Syss echo
- 256 Bark Sysx Librarian
- Receive Sysx dumps automatically by
transmitting custom Dump Request
Macros
StudioWare Control Panels
- Design custom StudioWare panels for
your studio, or use the included panels:
GM and GS Editor, Creative Labs AWE
Editor, Yamaha O3D, Yamaha ProMix 01,
Roland VS-880, Mackie OTTO 1604,
Novation Bass Station, and Super Bass
Station, Novation Drum Station, E-MU
Orbit, Tascam, RC-80B, Line 6 POD.
Roland GR-30 and many others
Internet Delivery
- Export audio to MP3, RealSystem G2,
and Windows Media Advanced
Streaming Format for delivering audio on
the Internet.
- Includes patented Fraunhoter MP3
Encoder for highest-quality MP3 com-
pression available
Audio Hardware Support
- Supports Windows-compatible sound
cards, including Yamaha DSP Factory
DS 2416 audio card; Sonorus STUDI/O;
Event Gina, Darla, and Layla; Frontier
Design WaveCenter; Lexicon Studio;
MOTU 2408; Midiman DMAN 2044;
Korg 1212 I/O; AdB Multi.Wav; Antex
StudioCard; and other multi-channel
sound cards.
Advanced DSP and mixing features sup-
ported on AudioX-compatible audio
cards, including the Yamaha DSP Factory
Sonorus STUDI/O, Digital Audio Labs
CardDeluxe, and other professional audio
hardware.
The Musician’s Toolbox III
(Deluxe version only)
- Sonic Implants SoundFont banks and MIDI files
- DNA Groove Templates with audio files
- DrumTrax library of MIDI drum tiles
- Big Fish Audio stereo wave loops
- Oddball Film + Video MPEG clips
- CINENET AVI clips from QuickStock library
- CanvasMan 32 CE
- Cakewalk Audio Browser Tool
- 12 Advanced Cakewalk Tutorials
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS -
WindowsTM 95/98:
Minimum Requirements
Pentium 200 MHz or higher 64MB RAM
Recommended Requirements
Pentium 300 MHz or higher, 128 MB RAM
Windows NT 4.0 SPS:
Pentium 300 MHz or higher; 128 MB RAM
Windows compatible MIDI intertace and/or sound card required
Sound card required for digital audio
record/playback
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