Roger E. LaPointe

Thanks guys found it and now playing around with it.

I created the instrument track, where do I find the Session Drummer? BTW thanks for your quick reply and willingness to help

Well I ran into my first wall. Just to try and test the waters I imported a track I had made of a song on Audacity. I wanted to try and add a drum track, after going to google I found how to add a drum kit. I was able to do that but found that what I really must have wanted must have been a Session drummer. So back to search and find what I thought was a straight forward way of adding one. However following step by step I run into a problem, instruction says" right click in the fx box in the track, and a pop up will say midi effects, slide the cursor to that, and another box will open called cakewalk effects, slide to that and a bigger box will open from that click on session drummer. Session drummer will open." I follow this only to find there after sliding (clicking) that there is no option to select Cakewalk effects. I get "insert Midi" or "bypass FX". Opening the insert midi tab I get drawn further down the rabbit hole. All I can think it that perhaps the suggested chain to get me to my session drummer has moved. Thoughts?

Thanks everyone, I'm digging in and finding this program is what I want but it definitely is gonna take some learning to get up to speed. I know you all are gonna laugh, I've come here after using Audacity as my main DAW. It's been good at what I use it for but doesn't have what I need to deliver the final product. I'm a singer/songwriter and have been and will probably continue using it in the capacity I've been using it for. I have it on my main desktop and use it now as a simple recorder as I start to write. This way if I do something I like I can return and expand on it, really don't need any bells or whistles for that. Since I am greener than grass I will have some guest ions from time to time

Is there a pdf or something I can download to help me get this bad boy set up? I opened it up and was scrolling through the different instruments, But I have no idea how to pull up an instrument without doing all that scrolling. I found the metronome and found how to adjust it and change it's voicings. I'd like to set it up so I can start exploring some recording with it. This thing would take forever just rummaging through to try and make it happen. Can one steer me in the right direction? Thanks in advance, Roger