As above mentioned, explore your cut and paste options. Do you have SoundForge? What I do is, if I have any "extra" space at the beginning or even at the end of a project, I leave it alone in CakeWalk. Instead, I export the project audio as a wave file into SoundForge. SoundForge is much easier to use than any program I've seen, as far as editing goes. I simply highlight the sound I want, and I can choose to completely cut it (delete it) or even fade in or fade out. I'll do some snooping of my own in CakeWalk to see if I can help ya more, but, that's all I have to offer for now =]