making a .wav or MP3 in cakewalk9

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so far I have just been doing simply, single guitar solo recordings. I can just export these as .wav or mp3 without having to worry about mixing anything down, other than the left and right channel pans and levels.

I am about to venture into real multi tracks with like 4 guitars and a stereo vocal and all that.

So I can read up on this in the help sections, what do you call it in cakewalk when you make a mix of a song where track levels are raised and lowered in the song, and ultimately fade out, etc. - leaving the original multi track project intact.

Is that the steps? 1) set up an automated mix so the levels go up and down without my having to push all the levels all over the place manually. 2) bump that to somekind of mix that contains all that stuff. 3) bump that mix to .wav

Also, anyway to link two sliders together (particularly the left and right master?) so they will rise and fall in unison rather than having to move one and then the other for a lopsided effect?
 
My recommended approach would be to use volume envelopes on the individual tracks (although you could also do it using Track automation).

The volume envelope will allow you to raise or lower the volume of each track at any point you wish. You should first get a "rough mix" using the track volume setting (or fader), and then apply the envelopes to tweak up and down from there.

Once you have the mix sounding to your liking, there is no need for an intermediate step. You can just export directly to a .wav or .mp3 (just be sure that "automation" is checked off in the mixdown dialog box).

You link faders together by right clicking on the fader and choosing "group" and picking a color. Then chose the next fader and do the same thing (using the same color, of course). I don't recall if it works on the Master, but try it.
 
Click on tools and then mixdown audio and choose export to files, save to your prefered location, it will save as a .wav file, or a .mp3. This is on the proaudio 9, and they all work similarly the same. I do that and then pick it up in Soundforge to Master a little.
 
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