David Debertin

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My Photo Story 3 program likes mp3 files to accompant the video. I step entered the background music from sheet music in Cakewalk maybe 30 years ago  see the current results here 

 

 

I figured it out I think.

Here is what appears to work

1. use the File command to open the old WRK file

2. Immediately do a "Save As on that file using the File command

in the options choose file type MID type 1 and save the file

3. Close the file you were working on

4. Reopen a new copy of the MID file you just saved

Plays fine now. The softsynth TTS-1 pops right up

I DID actually find an old laptop running Cakewalk 8.0 that plays the WRK track directr;ly and stores as MID as well

But I will not need that now.

Thanks for all the help. I'm just starting to get back into this after quitting 20 years ago. But a lot of stuff has changed. For starters, my WRK files instruments are all set up for a Yamaha keyboard before the Roland scheme was generally adopted, and they had a totally different idea on drums.  But other voices are different as well...

Now I am using some of the tracks I made to accompany photo videos, and I have to convert the mid files into mp3.  But there is a free on line program that does a good job on that.

I figured it out I think.

Here is what appears to work

1. use the File command to open the old WRK file

2. Immediately do a "Save As on that file using the File command

in the options choose file type MID type 1 and save the file

3. Close the file you were working on

4. Reopen a new copy of the MID file you just saved

Plays fine now. The softsynth TTS-1 pops right up

I DID actually find an old laptop running Cakewalk 8.0 that plays the WRK track directr;ly and stores as MID as well

But I will not need that now.

I'm still stumped. can anyone  get a track like the attached file to actually play sounds? And if so how?  

TOCFINE.WRK

I have a big pile of music that I step entered using various old versions of Cakewalk over a 10 year period of my life. Many of these files I made into MID files years ago using an old disk version of Cakewalk, but many never got converted.

I am just getting back to this after years of simply storing the old files.

I can load a file into the new Bandlab version of Cakewalk with a MID extension and the file plays fine as a new Cakewalk project.

But when I try to load a file with a WRK extension, Cakewalk seems fine and the file appears to load and play and even notes an instrument it is using, but no sound comes out.

There must be a trick to this of some sort to get a WRK track to play sound.  I have Cakewalk by Bandlab installed on my Win 10 laptop and I also installed the 4 add-on programs

Can anyone help me? Where did I mess up?

BLCKBIR2.WRK