Glossary - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

Glossary

Aftertouch
MIDI property controlling how much pressure is applied after sending a Note On message. See
"Channel aftertouch (ChanAft)" on page 160 and "Key aftertouch (KeyAft)" on page 164.
AIFF
Short for Audio Interchange File Format, the audio file format on the Macintosh platform. Files in this
format have the extension .aif or .aiff.
Archive
Silence and suppress the processing of a track. Archived tracks are not loaded into RAM, so they
can't be unmuted in real time. Use the archive command to reduce the demand on your CPU. See
"Mute" on page 166.
Arm
Enable a track for recording.
See the online Help topic .
Audio clip
A visual reference to a portion of, or an entire, recorded audio file. This is represented graphically as
a wave form which can be edited and manipulated in a variety of manners.
Audio track
An audio track is a reference point for playing and recording a single digital audio file stored on your
computer's hard drive. The inputs of the audio track are where you would like to record a signal from
and the outputs are where you would like to send this signal to monitor.
Audition
Preview audio effects before applying them to a track.
See the online Help topic Basic Audio Processing.