Cakewalk Instrument Definition File

The Cakewalk Instrument Definition File was used by the Cakewalk audio software to provide settings for specific musical hardware. It is an obsolete format no longer supported.

It is made up of plain text lines. Comment lines begin with. There is usually a comment line that identifies the file format, like.

Other Cakewalk file formats:
 * Cakewalk Bundle (BUN) (.bun)
 * Cakewalk Bundle (CWB) (.cwb)
 * Cakewalk Dump Request Macro (.drm)
 * Cakewalk Project (CWP) (.cwp)
 * Cakewalk Project (WRK) (.wrk)
 * Cakewalk Sample Definition File (.sfz)

Sample files

 * Some are downloadable here.

Links

 * Official Cakewalk site
 * Some discussion and links here