Alan Megna

Thank you for the responses. I have watched numerous YT videos, none of which specifically address my simple task. I have also consulted the manual...all 1,942 pages of it. I did figure out how to move the tracks - very easy to do once you know how. I also found that I have to export the entire mix to get 1 file out - exporting tracks creates multiple files which is not my goal. When I listen to the output file played through headphones plugged into my laptop, it sounds the same as it does when I listen to the tracks in Cakewalk, so all good there. When I listen to the output through headphones plugged into my Scarlett audio interface, I lose the fx. Not sure why, but not a big deal. I'm good....thanks for your time, I really appreciate it.

OK, yes I see that now. I didn't understand the term "stagger", but after further review, I see examples where the tracks don't "line up" but are rather "offset" from each other. I think that's what it means. How is that done?

Thank you for the follow up responses. I tried the bounce option and lost all audio in cakewalk as a result. Don't know why, but I had to go all the way back to restarting my pc to get it to recover. However, the the freeze/copy option appears to have worked fine. I will have to test some more, but the exported result sounds as I would want it. I am not aware of an export option that merges two files together back to back (consecutively).....that is why I do not believe I could just use the export feature. Adobe Audition appears to have that option (append) as does Audacity, but I'm trying to keep this process to one DAW and not overcomplicate it. I think the freeze option works......thanks again everyone.

Thank you for the responses. The cut and paste worked fine and I am able to separate each track as I want. However, I think I over simplified what I want to do - my bad. Track 1 is a guitar track using some TH3 amplifier fx. Track 2 is just spoken word describing what track 1 is (haha, no my playing isn't that bad) without any fx. Anyway, depending on how I cut and paste, I either keep the effect or lose the effect when I export the combined tracks for one file output. I want the effect on the guitar part and not on the spoken part. Can I do that within a single track?

Got it....sounds easy enough. Thank you.

Hello, I am new to using Cakewalk. I have two tracks I recorded in a project and I want to export them back to back into one mp3 file. I see various tools like Audio Joiner (online) or VLC or I could probably just figure out something in Windows to do it, but seems like it should be easy enough to do right in Cakewalk. I tried to search through the online manual, but didn't find anything that provided a clear, easy answer. Can I use Cakewalk to put the two tracks back to back into one output file and if so, how? Thanks.