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
Developed by	Cakewalk
Latest release	9.03
OS	Microsoft Windows
Genre	Host/Digital audio workstation
Licence	Proprietary
Website	cakewalk.com

Cakewalk by Roland is produced by Cakewalk, (formerly known as Twelve Tone Systems, Inc.) Cakewalk is a MIDI sequencer, developed first for DOS and since 1991 for Windows. 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 UART mode only. Cakewalk was delivered in 2 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. Up until this point, Cakewalk was a purely MIDI based sequencer, although it could trigger WAV files at certain points, audio support was not seriously supported until the advent of Cakewalk Pro Audio when true support for digitized audio was added.

1 Features
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[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).^[1] Cakewalk is a predecessor of SONAR which has nearly all of the same features, including support for CAL, currently being the only major DAW on the market supporting a scripting language.

Cakewalk has had piano roll and CAL support since the Win16 Version 3.01.