One of the best things about version 9 is that, refreshingly, Cakewalk seem to have listened to their existing customers. Tab and fretboard views will win friends among the guitarists out there. So, is there anything new that version 9 can offer our jaded, pre‑millenial tastes? Oh yes. Recent versions have seen some notable features and firsts: version 6 was the first Windows sequencer to support real‑time DirectX plug‑ins, version 7 introduced an enhanced, floating‑point mix engine which massively improves mixing headroom and a 'proper' mixing console (of which more later), while version 8 came with real‑time MIDI plug‑ins and mixing envelopes (aka vectors). The history of the Cakewalk family of sequencers on the PC goes back all the way to the dim and distant days of DOS. If Cakewalk was a cat, it'd be on its last life by now - but, as Kevin Perry discovers, the long‑established PC sequencing package shows no sign of turning up its paws just yet. At last! The multitrack piano‑roll view - note that Cakewalk intelligently handles both drums and normal instruments in the same view.
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