Hi, guys. Pretty straightforward. I just want to read up on CAL. Particularly the scripts included with Sonar then to a lesser extent about the scripting language itself and other useful scripts that may be floating around out there. The Reference Guide is a little sparse on details and it's hard to really nail down the best research materials on it all using the googley moogleys.
 
I'm assuming someone somewhere has put together an easy to digest guide on the topic for CAL n00bs. Wasn't quite ready to dig into it until now.
 
Thanks.

I just looked at the pdf manual for PA9 and it only has a few pages and refers to online help for a complete function reference.  I don't recall seeing anything more complete in any of the later manuals.
 
That section does refer to a CAL tutorial by "Clockwork Music"
 

 
Searching for 'Clockwork Music CAL tutorial' turned up:
 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Cakewalk/conversations/topics/4784
 

Quick before it disappears!!!
 
http://members.ziggo.nl/t...rogramming%20Guide.pdf

Thanks, Bob. There seems to be a site going by "hexichord" that boasts a bunch of CAL stuff but I'm always wary of clicking willy nilly. Anyone know what that sites about?
 
And then there's the devexchange I've seen referenced around here usually in older threads. Never checked it out if it's even still a thing. That struck me as maybe more official?
 
CAL Script searches does bring up a lot of odd stuff but none of it seems released/put together by Cake themselves. I'm getting the impression this all really old school... thus my confusion.
 
Just don't want to go on a wild goose chase unless absolutely necessary and I know there are folks around here who know/use/write this stuff.
 
I think scook posted some stuff ages ago on the topic (and I'm pretty sure writes in the language) but damned if I know where that all is.
 
Not an emergency... just want to do some reading on it since I will be playing around some of it soon and always like to understand things beyond the basics.
 
Cheers.

The best site I found is this one, which also has a link to a CAL Programming Guide (dated 24FEB2010) on it. There is actually a bunch of cool stuff on that site, but the CAL Programming Guide may be the specific thing you are after (and more than you wanted to know!).
 

There used to be a Cakewalk hosted page on the developer's exchange. I have spent way too much time trying to find it. It looks like Cakewalk is more than tired of supporting this and wishes it would just go away. After all, if you have a step sequencer what more do you need to make music?

 
There is also this thread that has a lot of info :  CAL files. Enjoy!
 
Mudgel has compiled a huge collection of CAL scripts contained in "cal.rar"
 
The link in his first message to this file has apparently changed to :
 
https://onedrive.live.com/?id=DF413F5445183B18!7769&cid=DF413F5445183B18&group=0
 
(and click on the CAL icon on the far right to download)
 
 

I have a folder of Cal scripts and resources on my Onedrive. See my signature.

Thanks muchly, doods. Starting to make sense now why info is so elusive. Not sure exactly why Cake would pull away from such a seemingly well known and useful (if not rather nerdy/complex) feature. I guess they want things to be more modern/user friendly but they could probably make some kind of "CAL Tool" or something to acheive that. Then again maybe that's what some of those MIDI FX things are supposed to be. As far as I can tell though some of the CAL stuff is the more effective (or ONLY) way to accomplish certain things. The idea of hacking up our own tools is pretty appealing as well even though I'm sure every possible useful function has already been written.
 
Maybe keeping the wormhole/backdoor the scripts use is preventing other development from happening.
 
Anyhoo... thanks again. Hopefully I'll be able to actually help others in the future with what I learn.
 
Cheers.

If and when they end CAL they'll never get another dollar from me.