If you're ween enough, you can use this language to write your own scripts and perform any sort of edit you can imagine. With so many accumulated features, there's always a danger of the screen becoming too cluttered, but Cakewalk has done a good job with the user interface, which is reasonably intuitive, flexible and customizable. Unlike some other programs I could name, Cakewalk avoids superfluous dialog boxes and mouse-only operations. To play a selection, simply hit the spacebar. Hit it again to stop, then a third time to play again.
Recording is as simple as selecting a track and pressing record.
Cakewalk provides several different ways to view musical data. The main window is the Track View, which displays an overview of your piece. The left pane of this window shows your music as linear tracks, like on a tape recorder. Individual tracks can be muted or soloed in real time, and any track can be routed to any input or output, including multiple ports. Clips, which may contain either MIDI or audio data, may be dragged around with the mouse, combined, split, cut, copied and pasted.