Mike Ve

midi is pretty translateable thankfully. I've got years of recordings going back to cakewalk bundles... but I'm more interested in moving fwd. excited to play w it this weekend! thank you john. I was actually feeling pretty comfy w it last night. got some tracks setup, made some track templates... got ezdrummer going to dif console channels... played around with a midi loop... set some loop points. I will play a bit this weekend and see if I can get the hang of copy/paste tracks and such. organize my vst/vsti. thank you for the warm welcomes everyone! look fwd to bugging you with stupid questions!!!!

hehe, love it. sure... throw insider jokes at the new guy. reminds me the time they sent me looking for the 'board stretcher' at the cabinet shop when I was 16! Tis all good. yes, lets not get anyone's feathers ruffled on my first day! cheers

thanks I will give that a shot tonight. I like stringing together and repeating clips at the start of a project. Later I almost always go back and individualize the clips into a big long linear midi track for realism... but at the start it's nice to just get something in there and get on with the form of a song. just thinking out loud here I guess but I hope the matrix might offer that. will go do some research. thanks for the replys everyone!

well... from the perpective of someone who doesn't write a lot on the staff and when he does he writes rhythm notation... and in the context of comparing to "no staff editor at all"... I bet it's going to exceed my expectations. Can't you use sibellius as a plugin anyway?

right on. I don't use any outboard gear these days as kontakt pretty much does everything i'd ever need but from time to time kind of regret selling it. some great sounds in there for sure and with the 4 dif sysex libraries it could cover a lot of ground! I hear ya. I know it will do all that fl will do(and more)... but workflow differences will get in the way for a while. that said... I think ultimately cw has more things going for it overall and hence i'm here. as I recall the staff editor is amazing too... and fl doesn't have that at all so... will have to re-familiarize myself with it. thanks for the replies gentlemen!

Hello all! New to this forum, just wanted to introduce myself. I am a guitar player, bass player, singer. I started out on a win95pc running cakewalk 3.0? Cakewalk and my korg 05rw was my introduction to the world of computers + music. I do a lot of midi: write all my own drum, bass, key, guitar parts - in midi in the piano roll. (I record my guitar and bass in audio). Years ago I strayed over to flstudio as I liked the piano roll better. A few days ago I read about gibson/bandlab/cakewalk/free! Couldn't be more excited. I have so been missing sysex and ability to save/recall my guitar presets instead of keeping notes! Setting up my template I'm encouraged by seeing a LOT of functionality that I did not have in fl... track templates, the mixing buss is more intuitive, etc. Haven't figured out how to easily copy/paste midi clips... I know cw is geared more toward a linear midi track while one of fl's strengths is it's ability to easily create small sections and string them together. Any advice there would be welcomed! Bandlab: thank you thank you thank you for saving cw and making it "great again"?! I'll assume the end game is to go back to something paid and I'm onboard with that assuming "the operation is successful ie my transplant"