Jack Ballard

I have used Cakewalk for live performances since it's early days (40+ years). I usually use a .cwt midi file that I have crafted for each song, I put the lyrics up in view and hit play. It sounds through the PA just like I hear it from my computer through headphones. I have recently wanted to have the midis come up quicker, so I tried Live Performance. First of all, Live Performance add window does not bring up .cwt files. So I resaved each song as a .mid file and then added those files to Live Performance. When I played the first two midi songs I found that the mix was off. Some parts were louder than I had mixed them to be. The midi sounds were tonally different. Not for the better. Is there a way to load my original .cwt files? Will that give me the same mix and tonality that I get when I just play each song from the standard play window? Any ideas?

Hey 905133, I just added TTS-1, which I had never done before, and after a little learning curve I was able to bring the drums back to life as well. This is my first time using a forum. My thanks to all who replied to my submission here! I can now repair about 40 midis I use where drums are not currently audible.

So if I hear you right, I drag the mid that I created in Notation Composer back into the original project (in its CWP version). I do this by opening the CWP version, then the new mid from Notation Composer and I copy the new mid and then go to the original version and paste the new files into the old project. Will that restore the proper assignments/TTS-1 instruments? Including the new instruments and lyric channels I created in Notation Composer? Are you doing each channel one by one or pasting all the files at one time?

Thanks Promidi and User 905133. Unfortunately Notation Composer cannot import a CWP, so I have to save it as .mid and import it into Notation Composer. Then I save it as a .mid and reimport into Cakewalk and then save it as CWP again. I see how not keeping the file as CWP is my problem. I still could use your help. I have used Cakewalk for 40 years, like I said before, but I am not very knowledgeable about it. How do I insert TTS-1?

This midi had drums that I could hear when originally played in Cakewalk. I put it into Notation Composer to add melody and lyrics. When I imported the resulting midi back to Cakewalk the drums can't be heard. I see them on playing on the VU meter but I cannot make them audible again. This is just a channel 10 problem. This happens every time I use this back and forth shuffling of midi files between these two programs. I have used Cakewalk for playing live performance midi backing tracks for over 40 years. I use Notation Composer to notate/create multi-track music that is much more complicated than the example below AND to publish sheet music of the resulting musical compositions. I REALLY need help making the drums audible again my live-performance midi tracks. HELP.....ANYONE? Born In Chicago(AddMelodyLyricsChords)FromNotationComposerNoDrums1.cwt