Documentation for legacy features CAL and StudioWare

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2015/03/20 02:46:00 (permalink)

Documentation for legacy features CAL and StudioWare

Where do I find detailed documentation for legacy features CAL and StudioWare??? There is very little left in the current manuals and there must have been more in the pre-Sonar X series versions ...
 
I know both features are legacy but some are still using it and I think it might be worth knowing more about it ... and giving some of it a try at my own risk ;-)

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    williamcopper
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    Re: Documentation for legacy features CAL and StudioWare 2015/03/20 09:52:05 (permalink)
    CAL has never been adequately documented, (at least since Sonar 2) though a good cal program can accomplish in a fraction of a second what it would take days or hours to do by hand.    I learned by trial and error, based on some of the antiques still offered in the Cal scripts installation.   If they'd only add tempo events to cal it would be almighty.   Of course it might be better if they didn't touch it: they'd surely add "features" and screw up the extraordinarily fast operation that exists now.
     
    Don't know anything about studioware, sorry.
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    Re: Documentation for legacy features CAL and StudioWare 2015/03/20 10:08:41 (permalink)
    The PDF manual for Pro Audio 9 has chapters on StudioWare and CAL.  I can make the PDF available to you with permission from someone at Cakewalk

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    Re: Documentation for legacy features CAL and StudioWare 2015/03/20 10:51:54 (permalink)
     
    The manual in question, page 16-5 :
     
    http://www.synthmanuals.com/manuals/cakewalk/pro_audio_9/users_guide/pro_audio_9_userguide.pdf
     
    Short doc from the Cakewalk DevXchange :
     
    http://web.archive.org/web/20070920113239/http://www.cakewalk.com/DevXchange/writingCAL.asp

     
    A bunch more CAL stuff :
     
    http://web.archive.org/web/20090707221235/http://www.cakewalk.com/DevXchange/CAL.asp

     
    CAL scripts :  ftp://ftp.cakewalk.com/pub/CAL/
     
    And :  http://home.swipnet.se/~w-26913/awe/cal.htm
     
    A thread with a bunch of links (some broken) :  http://forum.cakewalk.com/Cal-script-for-dummies-m1452558.aspx
     
    A CAL editor which I haven't tried :  http://www.collusioninc.net/index.php/soundware/utilities/25-cal-editor
     
    post edited by Paul P - 2015/03/20 11:04:04

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    Re: Documentation for legacy features CAL and StudioWare 2015/03/20 11:00:55 (permalink)
    CAL was very good documented in the PRE-Audio times of Cakwalk in 1995.
    As audio was added to Cakewalk, CAL was never updatet to audio events.
    That's too bad. The processing of audio with CAL-scripts would be great.

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