Cakewalk (sequencer)

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This article refers to the software product. For the identically-named company responsible for it, see Cakewalk (company).

Cakewalk Pro Audio

Cakewalk Home Studio 2002, a variant of Cakewalk Pro Audio
Developer:	Cakewalk
Latest release:	9.03 /
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Use:	Host/Digital audio workstation
Licence:	Proprietary
Website:	[1]

Produced by Cakewalk, (formerly known as Twelve Tone Systems, Inc.) Cakewalk was the name of their flagship MIDI sequencer, first for DOS and since 1991 for Windows 3.0. Early versions of Cakewalk for DOS (up to 3.0) required the intelligent mode of the MPU-401 card and could not be used with today's clones, while later versions (since 4.0) relied on dumb UART mode only. Cakewalk was renamed Cakewalk Pro at some point, and later into Cakewalk Pro Audio when support for digitized audio was added.

[edit] Features

The most recent version of the product features a piano roll editor, support for limited music notation and a built-in scripting language called CAL (Cakewalk Application Language)[2]. Cakewalk is a predecessor of SONAR which has nearly all of the same features, although support for CAL has apparently been discontinued.