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cakewalk professional 2.0 for windows 3.1 (Oct 1992) *download*

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--- Quote from: ultramars on December 24, 2020, 04:20:40 AM ---After reading further about it, i'm not sure anymore if this is true for the DOS version or for the windows version of cakewalk :p
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That would be DOS, IMHO.

https://cdm.link/2007/11/interview-cakewalk-founder-greg-hendershott-20-years-on/


--- Quote ---I think [Cakewalk 4.0] might have been the first version that would work with other MIDI interfaces. In the beginning there was the Roland MPU-401, and it had kind of a smart mode and a dumb mode. Ed.: that’s in fact just what they were called, though not necessarily accurately! The smart mode, you’d give it for example a note and a timestamp and it would transfer that MIDI message at that time. And it had some other features. So in a way it made it easier, but you got locked into certain things, like I think it had 8 tracks I think that it could handle. So Cakewalk for DOS had 256 tracks, and I had to come up with some scheme to take each eight and combine them. And then there started to be other MIDI interfaces that were simply UARTs, simply a serial port without the smart mode chip. And I wanted to try and support those. I think it was version 3 or 4 that I had to go back and rewrite [the software.]
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There were extra drivers for the DOS versions to support new MIDI hardware, which were designed for the Windows 3.1 drivers model (e.g. Midiman Winman ISA cards series).

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