Displaying Clips - CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO User Manual

A MIDI clip shows
each event; by
looking at the clips,
you can "see" the
notes that are being
played
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Displaying Clips

Clips are displayed as rectangles in the Clips pane. Their position and
length show you at a glance their starting times and lengths. You can
control four aspects of their appearance:
¥ Color: By default, clips containing MIDI and audio information are
drawn in different colors, so that you can easily distinguish them.
You can change these default colors or customize the color of any
individual clip.
¥ Name: You can also assign each clip a descriptive name, which is
displayed in the upper-left corner of the clip.
¥ Contents: At your option, clips can be displayed with a graphical
representation of the events in the clip. The effect is slightly
different for MIDI and audio information, as shown below:
¥ Minimum Clip Width: You can specify a minimum clip size (in
ticks) so that even the smallest clips are visible for editing.
To inspect the clip contents more closely, use the zoom tools to increase
the size in which clips are displayed. Note that displaying the contents of
each clip makes your computer work a little harder. As a result, if your
computer has an older, slower CPU you may want to turn off the display
of clip contents.
Zoom command keyboard shortcuts:
To do this...
Zoom In
Zoom All the Way In
Controller or automation
data are also displayed
Use this shortcut...
Ctrl-Alt-I
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-I
An audio clip
shows the
actual waveform