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Hi 1. Is there a possibility that the Cakewalk program will show me the musical scale of a song written in a MIDI file (notes) ? 2. Is there another way to find the musical scale of an instrumental MIDI piece (notes ) ? Thank you
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On my old PC with the same version of Cakewalk, I used to be able to just right click the midi track here circled in red, and in this drop down menu, an option to "Replace Synth for All Tracks Using This Synth..." would appear. This MIDI icon on the track would also have a square outline instead of a flat icon. I don't know how to bring this option back. Also please don't suggest me to use the synth rack view to replace it. The place this option would be listed is shown below:
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So I decided to download an anime song midi to load into Cakewalk. However, there's no audio playback on any of the tracks, yet I have sound from *everything else* on my PC including the sample demo projects. (I want this project to output thru my headphones, so the default system Speakers/Realtek(R).) I checked Console View, and there's green moving bars on the set instrumental tracks. I also went to check each output of the track, and they're all set to my Master. I checked Devices, and it appears everything looks correct for Input and Audio drivers under the Audio category. Under Playback and Recording, I've set it to WASAPI Shared as instructed by responses and YouTube videos. Additionally, I also went to Driver Settings to change the Audio Driver Bit Depth to 24 and the Sampling Rate to 48K cuz that's the Default Format in my Speakers' Advanced Properties. The one last part I went to check is the MIDI category, itself. Under Devices for that category, the ENTIRE section is empty. I thought the Output box would have my Speakers by default. Is there something wrong with the midi or is there troubleshooting steps I haven't done yet? I hope to hear back from y'all. tyvm
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How do I get rid of this line that follows the mouse cursor. Its very distracting Another question, why the hell is this other line drawn over every element of Cakewalk
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On my old system, any MIDI imported could be immediately played with a built in (basic) piano vst. But now on my current system I need to do the whole adding another instrument track and doing that before I can hear anything. The MIDI tracks are now only MIDI where as one of them used to have a synth instrument already applied. I use Musescore 4 to export my MIDIs. Below is how Cakewalk would look when opening a MIDI file. However, now it looks like this: Is this because I haven't installed all the built-in instruments or something? Additionally, I'm sure it was this VST called "TTS-1" that would automatically load. But I no longer have it. How do I install this?????
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G'day. I am trying to sidechain a kick to a frequency band in TDR Nova (dynamic eq) - when a kick happens it will reduce the lower frequencies in my vocals to reduce muddiness. the issue i'm having is that TDR Nova will not detect any input. i've worked with sidechaining a lot before (with other vsts) and have never had this issue. i have a send going into the TDR Nova and I have TDR Nova on ext sc (external sidechain mode). been researching for ages and haven't found any solution. hopefully someone with more experience can help me out. other daws have no issues. it appears that you need to route the sidechain signal into inputs 3/4 of the track you add TDR Nova to. not sure how to do this in cakewalk. thanks in advance -
i use the reverb effect a lot, and the music player thingy always waits until all the reverb is done reverb-ing before moving on to the next song. how do i fix this? (hopefully y'all understand what i'm trying to say lol)
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Hi all, I've been using Cakewalk for some time now but there are still a lot of basic features that I have yet to figure out. QUESTION I have a drum track (SI Drum Kit) that I want to split up into a few separate channels, something like Kick, Snare, Toms, Hats, but I can't figure out how to do this in Cakewalk. This is mainly so I can process each group with different effects (such as separate equalizers per group). I also have a Drum Map because I use a midi drum pad as input to record notes. Ideally I would have a single midi track so I can record my drumming inputs with a single button, and the output from that is split up to the different channels like described above. It would probably be useful to also have some kind of container (bus?) for all drum tracks together, so I can for example mute or solo all the drums as a whole with a single click, or maybe to do some mixing/processing over all of them together as well. CURRENT ATTEMPT/SETUP I've watched some videos explaining how to split drum tracks or route them to a bus, but I got stuck figuring out how to keep the Drum Map with this. See screenshot below for my current setup: If nothing else works I guess I can just add a new drum instrument track for each group, but I feel like there are easier and better ways to handle this. I'm still not super familiar with buses and routing in Cakewalk, but before Cakewalk I worked with Reason and I remember using combinators a lot to solve similar problems. Often I'm struggling with Cakewalk's view to visualize how tracks and buses are routed, but maybe things will click after getting more familiar with it. -
How to reproduce: - select multiple notes - hold left click on one of them to attempt to change the note length of all selected - only one actually changes I don't know why this happens, it doesn't happen reliably, it just happens sometimes. Can someone please help me
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Hi, New to Cakewalk and loving it. I want to add music to a video. I have imported the video and I can deal with that... Cool! However, I need the music to start at 00:00:05:15. Therefore I want that to be the bar 1 beat 1. This means that the video plays for just over 5 seconds before the music starts. When I hit record it starts at 00:00:05:15 etc. I don't know how to do it and I haven't found any tutorials that shows me how to do this. Can anyone give me a starter for 10 or point me in the direction if some video tutorial? Thanks in advance...
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Currently trying to use a sound font (megadrive) with Bandlab and it doesn't look like Bandlab supports SF2 files, any help?
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So I had the "not responding problem" that some people are also getting. I figured out it has to do with the audio input and output. I originally had it set to Fl studio, after unchecking everything the app worked as it should. Only problem is I don't know which audio input and output to choose so I can actually hear. Can someone lead me to the right direction please? thanks *edit: I just checked voicemeter aux for input and output and it seems to work fine now.
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So I used bandlab and other software to make a melody then I downloaded the melody as a midi file and then I just downloaded cakewalk and imported the midi file into there and I can't hear it I looked in preferences and made sure my audio drivers were set correctly and it look like they were based off a youtube video I watched made by a member in these forums a couple years back. I just need help setting it up I use razer headphones wireless idk if that's the issue. I had same issue with fl studio that's why I swapped to cakewalk also bc its free.
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Hey, I'm using Cakewalk for al while now and I'm all in all pretty happy with the software. But in the last days, I had two times the same problem: from one moment to another two of my projects didn't had any sound. So its still there and I can play it, but there wont be any deflection on the controllers, and if I want to export the project its an empty file. Also I cant play any instruments, I can click everything, but there wont be sound. Its not a problem with my device setup, its just two specific projects, if I open a new or another one with the same settings everything is as usual and I can hear everything. I tried to restart the software and use different devices, but nothing is working. Does anyone has an idea, what the issue could be or how to fix it? Or at least how I prevent it to happen again? Thanks!
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Hi everyone! I have a weird issue. When I load a instance of Poise and UVI workstation (Which had a free give away for 1 day) vst together in one session, it crashes CakeWalk when pressing play. Weirdly enough it doesn't crash when the play head is not at the beginning when pressing play. But when I save the project and want to start it up, Cakewalk crashes on startup. Using the both vst's sepperatly work just fine without any crashe, and am also able to save and re-open a project with no problem. I also updated CakeWalk to the latest version (apparently the last free version update), but stil crashes when loading both vst's. I found out that when I disable ASIO sound drivers it does not crash. I use Fl studio's ASIO driver btw sinds it enables you hear audio of multiple programs while mantaining the ASIO low latency capebilities. In FL studio and Studio One I can use both vst's in the same project without any problems. No crashes, saves and re-open without any problem. At the moment I'm trying out MPC beats as an alternative for poise in CakeWalk....which is AWESOME!...but...not possible to load more then 1 MPC Beats instance as a VST. Which is a mayor drawback for me. Can Serato studio free be used as a vst? Any suggestions anyone? -
I've been trying to setup a Guitar to USB cable for cakewalk, as I am in college and don't really have the option to bring an amplifier with me. Every time I launch a new project in Cakewalk, it freezes up and crashes after a couple seconds. Whenever I launch cakewalk it will also create audio rendering errors when I watch YouTube at the same time. Usually I'll find a tutorial on how to set one of these Guitar to USB cables on YouTube, but it'll be windows 10 instead of windows 11, and their drivers will show up in preferences completely different. As you can tell I've had zero luck on trying to figure this out, so if you can lend a hand, that'd be awesome. Below are photos of my audio driver settings, hopefully that helps.
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Hey all I have been using Cakewalk for a year or so now and thought I had things flowing pretty smoothly with my workflow.. I have used it to produce 2 albums in rapid succession, however I have taken a break from recording this summer and just rebooted cakewalk for the first time in a while today. I loaded up one of my tracks I was working on and for some reason the Midi keyboard tracks I have recorded are playing through the SI-Drumkit instead of back through my synth....I am very confused as when I try to redirect the output back to Midi Out or to Master there is no option to do so. Only SI drumkits 1&2.... I am very perplexed by this new Issue and would love a few words of wisdom from the people.! and yes my projects have 2 midi drumkits in them , I just dont understand why its effecting my ability to create a normal midi track.. Thanks -- R-TEN IMG_0608.HEIC -
Trying to use Cakewalk as a virtual amp for practicing, have this audio interface with it's drivers, have ASIO4ALL, and these settings (have tried all 3 inputs within Cakewalk - none work). I don't get any action in the gain monitor from either input, but hear both in my headphones (with no effects, hearing the raw output from the mic and guitar plus pre-amp gain). Watched a ton of youtube videos and read forum posts but haven't found a solution.
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Alright so I just got this DAW and have been fiddling with it for several hours overnight following every forum post and youtube video related to "no audio in cakewalk" but I still just cant seem to get it working. The audio drivers are all correct, master bus, sound card, inputs and outputs, you name it I have done it. Yet there is still nothing from playback. There is audio when I am recording, I can here my guitar and the tone is changing through the amp sims, but playback gives nothing. I am at a loss at this point and IDK what to do. Are there any other things I could have missed? I can provide screenshots of specifics if needed.
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Hi I use bandlab sonar and play a control keyboard with vst kontakt. I want to divide the midi section into 3 parts. and play each section on a different instrument. For example I setup konkak piano on channel 1, Guitar on channel 2, Saxophone on channel 3. I want to make sonar change channels automatically, so that I can play each section with a different instrument, and I won't have to remember to switch between channels while playing (if there are several songs, I won't be able to remember when to switch channels in each song) Thanks
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When ever I record in cakewalk and then play the track the sound is inaudible most of the time occasionally play a crackly muffled sound. I have my guitar going into my audio interface into my laptop, I know the problem is not with my audio interface (Focusrite 2i2) because if I use another program such as audacity, the sound is clear and plays back as expected, the wave also looks normal on the track, its only when playing it back or using imput echo, there is also no clipping happening either.
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So, i've browsed around for a fix and nothing has done the job. My metronome will simply not work. I set the outputs to my speakers, checked everything I needed to and yet I can't hear it. If ANYONE can please help me out you'd be a life saver. (i am still a noob to this software)
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Hi all! I discovered Cakewalk this summer and what an amazing tool it is! I had to take a break due to life but I am back to experimenting. One thing I loved that I figured out over the summer was being able to create a melody in the piano roll, usually with Vital, and then enable the arpeggiator in the midi side panel (not the "insert effect" one) and then use "bounce to clip(s)" to essentially edit the individual notes in the piano roll to reflect what I heard with the arpeggiator enabled, automatically disabling the arpeggiator after but keeping its effect embedded in the actual notes themselves. Yesterday I was fooling around with a melody and created something I love, however, when I bounce it to clips, what's produced is considerably different than what I hear with the arpeggiator enabled. It's similar but not nearly as good and changes the flow and rhythm far too much. I searched like crazy since then but have not been able to find anything regarding this specific issue. Can someone help me understand what I'm not grasping? Or another method to achieve the same result? Thank you for reading and for any wisdom you can dispense!
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I'm trying to make a MIDI track output either to the master or my Scarlet 4i4 headphone output, but I can't. I'm using ASIO as it's the only one that works for me with low enough latency on Cakewalk. The only outputs are "Digital Piano", which just outputs to the keyboard I'm using, "Microsoft GS Wavetable synth", which only outputs to my Realtek speakers (which would be fine, but those only work on non-ASIO, which makes the latency too high to record audio along to a MIDI track), and "Focusrite USB MIDI" which doesn't seem to output anywhere I can find. No problems at all on audio tracks, they output to the master which outputs into my Scarlet headphone output. I'm a total idiot with this stuff so any help is appreciated!
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hello, I was using cakewalk for the first time and I clicked on fit midi content by accident and I have no idea to turn it off. Is there a way to turn It off? thanks!
