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This is perfect for now! I'll check out some filtering stuff in future as the only other thing I can imagine needing in the near future is a sustain pedal which won't work with this going on I imagine, thanks as usual guys!

I'm really not bothered about my keyboard doing anything other than note, duration and velocity. But I presume there's no way of making it ignore this info when record then? That's a bit rubbish but at least I only paid 20 quid for it! I'll find a way of living with it as I'm well skint atm. Thanks for the info though good to know!

That doesn't seem to be what's happening for me, sorry I should have been clearer before - it doesn't seem to be affecting the note VELOCITY, but CC 7 keeps triggering some sort of VOLUME parameter which makes the track quieter. It seems to be the output value of the soft synth I'm using? Either way I've disconnected the volume control on my MIDI keyboard but that's not changed anything, it seems to kick in just by playing notes?! Very irritating when trying to track stuff as you can imagine!

Hi there, I've got a bit of a dodgy MIDI interface that keeps sending random velocity CCs, the note info is fine (aside from a few keys that need cleaning and aren't working) so is there any way of getting cakewalk to not record/ignore stuff like this? Ta!!!

Using snap "by" has really made life lots easier! A couple of the other tricks have helped too (btw sloppy is exactly what we're going for, I'm tapping drums in and using midi keys etc then massaging them gently with a bit of quantisation) only thing is its also,sort of, loop based music too, hence the want to be able to very precisely replicate my imprecise playing haha. Thanks everyone!

Crikey that 2nd suggestion sounds hard work if you're doing it alot! Think I'll just stick to drag copying!!! I was having the most fun with this when copying/pasting a clip, where it seen seemed to drag the 1st note to the grid regardless of the clip fitting neatly within a set of measures? I'm hoping you can also do drag copying with clips also? It's there a way of drag copying that causes it to repeat? Or if I ask for repetitions of a clip should they fall into their grid position nicely? Setting snap to "by" sounds like the revelation I needed, I was curious what it was for but hadn't tried it yet! That tip for constraint of horizontal movement is useful too because that already ends up slowing stuff down when I need to do that! Cheers guys!

Has anyone got any pointers for copy & pasting stuff that starts just before/after a measure etc? Say a bar of drums, how do you get it to be in the same location in another bar? When I do it currently the first note gets snapped to the time marker, I'm hoping it's not a case of finding where the value is before/after the grid and getting the time marker to the same place every time!!! I imagine there's a way. Thanks as usual!

Sweet, ta much appreciated!!!

Hi guys, I was wondering if there was an easy way of mixing down/rendering/whatever is the pretty much universally accepted terminology for this to a track without having to do a real time recording? Is there any really easy user friendly way of doing this sort of thing straight to a track as opposed to exporting & importing? If you have a MIDI track feeding an audio track with a synth loaded is there any was of just processing the audio so it doesn't have the sound of my potato frying whilst it happens?

Worked it out, just needed to uncheck the box saying I wanted the VST versions, thought it would just install both?! It's all good anyway ta guys! *** aaaand I can't get it to work because there's no longer an option to register it on the website! Will try something else!

Cheers guys much appreciated - I'll have a look elsewhere for the problem then if it doesn't run on the VST versions, it is indeed the FX you mentioned!

I've restarted Cakewalk, and the folder they're in is on the VST list (and also includes recognised plugins) any help?! Ta!

Yeah I'll probably give it a go, just with the nature of the stuff I'm doing it's pretty fast at times, and there's no way I can play tightly enough never mind getting decent dynamics with it! I might just play it in with some quantisation and then mess on with it. I'm also doing another recording project (at some point) which is very much the opposite, and everything is pretty slow & messy which I really enjoy playing myself & layering patterns up, then editing after if needs be - but double time stuff at high tempos with fast snare rolls and techy ride patterns isn't something I'm up to!!! Ta for all the advice btw!

Pretty much whatever is closest to step sequencing would be ideal, I like the work flow of programming something, then copy & pasting it, then making little alterations to it afterwards and building on it with some variations. I think if I get more comfortable with copying & pasting and making little markers for various sections then I'll be a little more comfortable, but for now I find it all a bit of a pain in the *****! The DR isn't the best though you're right haha, I had a drumbrute and loved that as a sequencer for a while (despite not making any sort of EDM style music, I'm currently working on a surf/hardcore punk thing atm) just because of it being really tactile tapping in sequ3nces and stuff, but that was when I was just doing hardware only stuff for something totally different. Maybe I just need to stop being lazy and just tap stuff in and work from there, because I quite enjoy a bit of finger drumming! I just wanted to know if there was any 3rd party plugins for MIDI programming etc.

Thanks for all the help, it is indeed the actual notating of drums that I'm finding a little cumbersome. I'd tried the step sequencer however it's had a limit of 64 steps when I've used it, and chopping songs into smaller sections doesn't seem to have rectified this, so not sure if something is missing there? I kinda wanted to just have everything to the grid, and have some vague control over velocity expression by painting in notes at lower/higher values, then humanising it all when I'm done to make things feel a little less robotic. I thought the step sequencer would be ideal for that, as keeping stuff to the grid is very very easy, and it has things like adding repetitions etc so can easily bang in a load of 1/4 notes and then put some lesser emphasis on the off beats with a different articulation etc. At the moment I'm half tempted to go back to the god awful UI of my Boss DR880 for the purpose of programming, then recording the MIDI and then fine tuning stuff in cakewalk. I'm not sure if I'm maybe just being a little inpatient and need to get used to various shortcuts for different snap settings/cutting & pasting etc, and I have set up a few keyboard shortcuts to try to make it a little easier, but it seems a real chore doing it the way I am atm!