The Cakewalk Application Language (CAL) can save a lot of time to composers. The following programs may be used only with Cakewalk (Sonar creates some problems).
This group of routines will create cadences according to user's choice of tonality.
These programs will generate some of the chords known in the modern music. Their purpose is to allow the composer to work with no need to look for chords in other places. They will operate on already existing notes. Highlight the root of the chord and run the program.
General or diatonic counterpoint based on the user's selected notes and selected tonic will be created. The programs are divided into diatonic counterpoint (Counterpoint) and general counterpoint (Ucounter). The _1 programs will add the counterpoint above the note, while the_2 programs will add the inverse of the _1 counterpoint under the note.
Exclusive (containing the 12 chromatic notes) three-part chords.
These programs will generate several kinds of harmony: major chords, dominants and polytonal (alpha and eta). “Autoarpeggiator” will use the notes of a given progression to arpeggiate each one of them. “Harmolod” will write the recommended scale over the chord that you choose. “Autochordal Analysis” will write the chords that you may use over a given progression.
This group of routines will create invertible dodecaphonic progressions according to Nicolas Slonimsky's "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns". The “Inverse” programs will create the inverse of a given progression (the retrograde already exists in the Cakewalk menu).
An unusual way to make unexpected music. You just have to tell the computer what you want and it will do the job creating quantized progressions, series, slurs, staccatos and chords at variable time or in a successive order, according to your wish.
These programs will transpose a selected progression to a chosen or customized scale.