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Hi, I'm considering using VSTi's in live performances with Cakewalk. I don't know how to begin. I'm familiar with using Cakewalk for home studio recording, but it's totally unclear how I should use it live. Basically, my idea is to have 1 cakewalk project for each song. I think I can benefit from the Playlist feature, Cakewalk's documentation will help, that's totally fine. However, there are several requirements that I have no idea how to achieve: I might need to have multiple sounds (either from the same VSTi or from several VSTi's) controlled from one unique keyboard at the same time, either layered, or split, with sound A at the bottom of the keyboard, sound B in the middle, sound C on top, or maybe sound D on just one key, etc. I might need to have multiple keyboards or controllers connected to Cakewalk, and each keyboard should be able to control its very own sound setup. I might need to switch from one sound to another, from a specific keyboard, during a song (rather than between songs), and in this case, I'd need to be able to do that without loading another project, rather by using some key or click instead. Are these expectations realistic? Any tips to begin?

👍 Great indeed! I wasn't aware of this PDF documentation, and I usually got lost in an online help with broken pictures.

Great tip. 👍 Is there some way to globally, temporarily disable all effects? Or do you have to go through all tracks to disable effects one by one, and then again to enable them?

This seems to work fine, indeed! 👍🙂 I have no idea why. The original purpose of this ripple editing is to automatically remove holes when you delete parts of a track, isn't it?

Sometimes, you work on a long project (I mean the song's duration, as measured in minutes or bars), and then for some reason, the project gets shorter, say reduced from 100 bars to only 75 bars. The trouble is: when you use Ctrl+A (Select All), this will still select 100 bars, although the last 25 are empty (or at least seem empty). I cannot seem to find a way to completely remove these last 25 bars, or tell Cakewalk that my project actually ends at bar 75 rather than 100. Any idea?

You're 100% right! Actually, my very problem at the moment is rather about RAM. My musical partner loaded 60GB of audio into one single Cakewalk project, and the file cannot be rendered anymore, due to the huge amount of data. So the plan is to keep all original source files indeed, but nevertheless work with separate projects and make sure that each of them won't load all the data.

Hi there, I noticed that, when you remove parts of audio clips, the source audio file remains intact – which is usually fine, because it allows to retrieve the deleted parts later if needed, e.g. by extending the clip's boundaries again. However, there are times when you'd rather have the unused audio data completely removed, in order to save disk space. Is there a way to do that? I'm aware of the "Utilities > Clean Audio Folder" feature, but as far as I understand, it removes audio files that have become totally unlinked to any project, as a whole. In my case, the files are still linked: I would like to remove only parts of these files that are no longer used, so that (e.g.) a 10MB file becomes a 2MB file. I have tried the functions from the clips' drop-down menu, but it doesn't seem to help. To be more specific, my use case is the following: I have a huge audio Cakewalk project that has become too big to handle, and I'd like to split it into smaller files by keeping only one song in each Cakewalk project, rather than keeping all multitrack songs in the same Cakewalk project. However, I'm afraid that splitting the project won't help if each smaller project resulting from the split still includes all the original audio data.

Hi, My son (15) has spent a lot of time composing on keyboard for several years now. When we have time, we move from keyboard to Cakewalk to build a complete arrangement for one of his songs. Here is a sample of his instrumental works. It's a composition in the style of a Super Mario videogame. My son wrote the melody a couple of years ago, and I wrote the harmonies and arrangements, 100% on Cakewalk. https://www.bandlab.com/remi_rionnet/overground-8e8162d5 Long live Cakewalk 😀

Thank you very much @Wookiee for taking time to listen and give your feedback! 🙂 To give you some hint on the lyrics: It's about a young person stumbling upon a mysterious house in the woods. He meets its strange inhabitants, who happen to be the multiple sides of his own personality. As strange as they are, he'll have to learn to welcome them as they are, and live with them. OK sorry about that. Here is the link to the very first song then, for those who were scared to confront the whole album: 😄 https://www.jackard.fr/ecouter/lhistoire-du-petit-jackard/

Thank you very much for your kind feedback @PhonoBrainer 🙂 I appreciate very much. I think a lot of things could have been improved indeed, if we'd had a real sound engineer, but we had none unfortunately, so we did our best within our constraints & limitations.

Thank you so much! 👍😃 I should have asked sooner, because it's soooo useful, and I had no idea of the name.

In the score view, I remember in older versions using a tool that allowed reading the score by moving the mouse around. There's this vertical line that indicates the current reading position. This tool I'm speaking of allowed to just move this line along the score, and every time the line would meet notes, you would hear the notes playing. I can't seem to find this tool anymore. I'm sure it must be somewhere... ?

Hi there, Here is a complete album that we've made using 100% Cakewalk by Bandlab: https://www.jackard.fr/ecouter/ (16 original songs in French) This is an amateur project, since none of us is in the music industry. All voices and most guitars are audio tracks, as well as a tin whistle solo. All other instruments are midi tracks with VSTs. Long Live Cakewalk! 😍 Cakewalk has been a genuine member of the project since the beginning.

Dragging a clip from a track to another works fine. However, I noticed that when I select only a part of a clip and try to drag it to another track, so that it may become an independent clip, Cakewalk crashes right away. Version 2021.12 build 102, 64 bits / Windows 10

Thank you so much @msmcleod 👍 That's perfect. It's not so complicated in the end. It's going to be a huge time saver for me! I don't think I would have figured it out by myself.