Okay, here's my problem with this entire thread. People are asking a perfectly reasonable question (albeit, over and over) and getting berated for it. That's because the answer(s) aren't clear and in some cases are incomprehensible or don't address the ultimate aim of the question. It's my guess that at least some of the very frustrated people asking this question have gone to YouTube and viewed this tutorial: How to use cakewalk for beginners. Now, if someone can explain to us how Mr. Simple Green Tech managed to make it work, I'm sure we'll all go away happy. The problem is, we've followed his directions exactly and it seems to work for him but not for us. Yeah, we're a bunch of nubes, but we're not stupid. What's probably misleading about that video is that he doesn't show the mechanism for adding the various drums. You see the drums being hit on the plugin display, but you don't see how he's doing it. My guess is he's using the keyboard on his computer or the virtual keyboard you get by hitting Alt-0. It would certainly be nice if you could actually use the plugin to put down the notes, but maybe that's not possible. Have to assume that the way Cakewalk works someone would have done it if it were.
