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Bruno 


I'm not a programmer ... but CAL sounds a lot like the Logical Editor in Cubase. Have you ever taken a look at that?

DF

 
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From: Bruno <brunorc@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: drum kit maps


  
2011/11/12 D F Tweedie <bienpegaito@...>
> @Gary. Thanks for the info about CAL. I've come across it, but having never used Cakewalk/ Sonar, didn't have any idea what it was. I suspect many of those functions are now incorporated into most DAWs.

CAL is the Cakewalk Application Language. It's the most important
feature of Cakewalk and the most underestimated one, both by users and
by the company (no improvement was made to CAL for the last 20 years).
The problem is, that it has few drawbacks:
- that's the only programming language I know which has literally NO
floating point numbers, and you cannot go above 255 with integers;
- you cannot use it in realtime;
- you cannot easily modularize your code.

The importance of CAL goes beyond splitting into tracks by channels.
Given enough time, patience and perseverance, one can enchant into a
macro any chain of MIDI operations available in Cakewalk.

I used CAL years ago to write macros which would allow to "humanize"
the score. Nowadays I'd rather use Reaper and its JS language or Perl
(on top of ALSA) - I tried doing stuff in JS and it's amazing, it's
just making circles around CAL. I recall uploading some of my macros
to the P2K list Files section...

Bruno