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Hello community, First of all, completely noob about MIDI and hoping to learn MIDI with it's vast potential to create audio files from all kinds of instruments :) I've been watching some Youtube guides about using MIDI in Cakewalk and it is really interesting to learn after my 20+ years of guitar playing and how much info and potential skills I am missing out on what it can offer to make my audio recordings move to the next level. I just like to ask if someone would know where I can download some midipack files where I can see how a composer/writer wrote a midi for those instruments and how those notes relates to one another. It's like listening to a song where you have no clue how certain riffs or melodies are played until you've seen it from a guitar tab / piano lead sheet and only then you will understand how/why certain notes/chords works for that particular song. Thought this will help me accelerate my knowledge how to use MIDI for my future recordings. Hope that makes sense. Many thanks.

Many thanks for the suggestion 😄. It turns out I just need to collapse the whole folder first before I can drag it to re arrange it.

Hi peepz, Any idea how I can re arrange the track folders I created? As you can see from the screenshot, I want to move the track folder "Guides" where the "Instruments" folder is but it is not letting me to do so. Many thanks.

Do you have a pic/video example that you can share to me as I tried Youtube but most contents are not what I am looking for? Many thanks.

Hi Jack, I would recommend you watch this one as it helped me tremendously understanding what needs to be done with a mix on a simple setup. Hope this helps you as it did to me.

Hello fellow Cakewalk users, Noob here and want some help pls with looping a groove clip. I set my project tempo at 115bpm 4/4 time signature and I got a bass drum loop that has got 128bpm. I've tried using audiosnap to match the project tempo but it is way off so had to adjust the audio transients to make sure it follows the tempo. Want to loop it, but when it I tried it via Loop construction, everything is grayed out☹️. Any advice pls what I am doing wrong. Many thanks.

Hello peepz, Just like to ask your advice pls on how can I create a loop with a one shot wave file (see screenshot) I'm planning to match it with my current project tempo and time signature but no such luck using Audio snaps and Loop construction Tempo is 51bpm with time 6/8 time signature. Many thanks.

Thank you very much for this link. Just what I was looking for and full of useful info 😀

Hi, Not sure if this topic has already been discussed before here in forum. My question, is there a function in Cakewalk that I can transpose an audio file to a key that suits my audio mix? I was browsing on some loop packs in the Bandlab websites (see attached pic) and thought if there will be a way I can change the key of a sample loop which I will be able to fit it on the music project. Or perhaps other software you can recommend (free preferably). Many thanks.

Will give it a go Many thanks.

Hello, Any ideas how I can change the default sound of the metronome as it starts to get too much for me after hours listening from my projects? Anyone got a softer metronome sound pls? Many thanks.

Thank you very much for all of your wonderful support here. I wouldn't have learned it if it wasn't from all your suggestions and advice. Really appreciate for your time helping out a newbie like me. Many thanks all

Wow thank you very much for this wonderful Youtube tutorial Just watching and learning how a simple EQ setting can make a lot of difference. Many thanks

Hi Treesha, Gsnap is a free VST for pitch correction for vocals that I learned from one of the Youtube videos I watched and can't remember who was it from. Anyway the link is, https://www.gvst.co.uk/gsnap.htm Don't want to pay commercial stuff first until I get the hang of what each VSTs capabilities are till I fully understood how it can help with the mixing process Many thanks for the support

Many thanks for that John :)

Hi Treesha, Many thanks for your encouraging word To be honest, I am still at the stage where I don't know if my understanding is correct so I am hoping to see other people's project on how they mix from voices, instrument, fx, and etc just to give me more ideas on how to improve my knowledge. I think making it sound professional at this time sounds far fetch at my current level so just thinking of making it sound clear and crisp to begin with. So that's my target first before moving to the next stuff Do you have in depth tutorial or blog I can learn from you?

Hi John, From your example above, sounds like I will send my drums to a bus that will be panned hard left and the other instruments into another bus that will be panned hard right. If that what is I am thinking, is it safe to say that I should insert a bus for my click tracks and guides that will be panned hard left, and the rest of the instruments will be on another stereo bus that will be panned hard right? Many thanks

Hello peepz, Just starting to mix a song that I have tediously fixed for almost 2 days to get all vocals in sync and in time with the beat. Complete newbie if you are wondering why it took me a long time so if anyone has got advice how to get a group of vocals in sync in less time, I'm all ears Anyway, as you can see from the pic attached, not sure if what I am doing is correct. I've setup some VX-64 and Gsnap to make the vocals sound dynamic and make it clean. But going through some tutorial via Youtube and in here, I am not getting enough info on what to do with vocals cleanup and making them sound professional. One thing I picked up from watching Youtube is that I need to create busses for FX so that it will be shared for the group I want to apply it to. Is that correct? Kinda stuck now really after spending for almost a week just trying to figure what I'm suppose to do so can anyone kindly share your ideas and FX setup on how to achieve this pls. Many thanks for your patience and effort as I slowly build up my mixing skills and knowledge.

Hi John, Many thanks for your advice. In regards with setting up 2 busses, would you have an example how will you do it pls?

Thank you for that very useful info. I'll try that settings this week and will come back to you. Many thanks once again

Hi, Newbie guy here. Simple question, when saving a song track that will allow me to play with a backing track and hear the click track, what must I do to ensure I will get those results once I connected it to my mixer? Basically, I only want my click tracks and guides to be played via ear monitors but the backing track goes out to the main speakers. I'm trying to follow this kind of setup and wondering if there is something I must do first when saving a song track using Cakewalk, Hope that makes sense.

Right, finally solved it. Had to uninstall everything up to deleting the previous registry and re-install it again. I can finally hear what I want and it is playing everything I want to play. So finally manage to past this hurdle So baby steps for me at the moment but will eventually get this all familiar hopefully soon enough. Many thanks for all your support.

Hi Charles, I've downloaded a midi song from Google just like what suggested but sadly I don't hear any sound coming out from laptop speakers. I've attached some screenshots of my settings and not sure if any of these are causing a havoc. Many thanks.

Hi, I've been trying to export an audio either as a .wav/mp3 file but all I keep getting is an error message "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file". It is a test click track guide that I made as I am only starting to get familiar with the software. I've selected all the tracks from my project and choose "Entire mix" when I am about to save the file. Tested with other audio programs but no sound coming out at all. Any ideas pls? Many thanks.