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On 12/28/2019 at 3:07 PM, Craig Anderton said:

Cakewalk has the Matrix View, which is very much like Ableton Live's Session View. As an Ableton user, though, I have to say the programs are conceptually rather different. In my opinion (which probably no one else shares, LOL), Cakewalk is a recording studio disguised as software, while Live is a musical instrument disguised as software. 

I personally started in FL Studio years ago, then once I got into Ableton I was hooked. I’ve tried everything from bitwig, studio one, to logic and probably some others between.

Honestly, I’ll likely end up sticking with Ableton, just because my workflow in Ableton is unmatched by any other DAW so far, but I do want to put as much effort into this one as I can and see what happens.

If I could ever find a nice compromise between some of the features in Ableton & FL Studio, I’d be sold 100%

The price point and the looks of some of their stock plugins is what pushed me to try cakewalk lol.

On 12/28/2019 at 2:54 AM, martsave martin s said:

you can open a demo project(on start-screen) there you can experiment the basic options (add fx,solo track,..)

you can also go to preference (hitting p on the keybord)and see what's all settings are there)

just take your time to learn cakewalk..wich is really in fact easy tu use, both basic and advanced...

 

martin

This is a good idea, I will give that a try for sure, thanks!

9 hours ago, David Baay said:

- Enable 'Use Paste Special Options on Paste' under Preferences > Editing.

- Ctrl+Alt+V to make the first paste with Paste Special options.

- Select the radio button to Paste into Existing Clips, and OK.

- Regular Ctrl+V will now paste into existing clips, and will persist until you use Paste Special again to change it. 

Alternatively (preferred)

- Select the one-beat clip in the track view.

- Ctrl+L to enable Groove Clip Looping.

- Drag the end of the clip out to 5:01 with snap enabled at a quarter or measure.

Perfect, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

Hey guys,

This would be my second topic, but I am curious, have any of you here previously used Ableton Live 8/9/10?

If so, I'm wondering what kind of advice you guys could give me to help improve my workflow in Cakewalk. I just feel like maybe people with previous Ableton experience, and workflow methods created through Ableton, might be able to help explain things a little better to me.

Thanks in advanced for any help!

10 hours ago, David Baay said:

Drag-move/copy in the PRV should always automatically extend the clip boundary to encompass the moved/copied material in the existing clip.  Pasting will create a new clip if the start of the paste is more than about half a measure past the end of the existing clip. To avoid that, you can drag the end boundary of the clip further out in the track view before editing in the PRV. But be aware that if you move the clip in the track view, the boundaries will revert to note/controller start/end points.

I do not believe my selection is more than half a measure past the end of the existing clip. I have created a clip 4 bars long, and the measure of my notes is approximately 1/2 of a bar. I select my notes from last to first trying to copy them across the full length of the current clip, and considering my first/only 4 notes only take up the first half bar of a 4 bar clip, I think I can safely assume that I'm not selecting anything over the length of the current clip.

1 minute ago, RobertWS said:

Sometimes, when cutting and pasting acts up, I switch to the Selection Tool.   Then, it's left mouse click and drag.

I also tried that, but was still having the same issue sadly.

3 minutes ago, scook said:

When done filling out the 4 bars, select the clips in track view then use the Track View Clips menu bounce to clip(s) function to create one 4 bar clip.

 

Ah this should work, thanks!

Here's a picture example of what keeps happening vs what I want. I made the one I want by drawing all the notes manually, but there must be a way to copy them without the clip copying. 

1 minute ago, chuckebaby said:

Are you using the PRV to select these notes ?

Because its impossible to select individual notes trying to edit the clip itself. you can drag select to highlight only the portion of the clip you need. Then use CNTLR+V.

Yes, I am using PRV.

I right-click drag over the 4 notes, CTRL-C, then CTRL-V...but it copies the whole clip instead of just the selected notes inside the clip. I can manually draw out the rest of the notes in the clip, but it'd be much easier to fill the clip using copy/paste.

Hi everyone,

I just decided to download this DAW and give it a try the other day, so yes, very new to it. All good so far, but there's one annoying issue I'm having and I can't seem to find the appropriate answer to it after quite a bit of googling & reading.

I made a 4 bar midi clip for an arp, I have drawn in the first four notes of the clip and am trying to copy those 4 notes through the rest of the 4 bar clip. The problem I'm having is when I try to select those 4 notes it seems to select the whole clip, and instead of copying the notes it copies the clip over & over.

What am I doing wrong here?