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Welcome to the forum. This is among the most basic operations with MIDI. MIDI is just data. It needs a synthesizer to make sound, in this case the synth is in your keyboard. You should be able to connect headphones to it You can go to Insert at the top and you may be able to select a software synth. I am not exactly sure what ships with Cakewalk anymore. There have been a few changes . Once you have a soft synth, change the output of your piano MIDI track to that soft synth. The soft synth's output should be sent to your sound card. Then you should be able to hear it through the computer. Check out the Tutorials forum here for more basic lessons. Good luck!

Back in the aughts, when I was recording pretty regularly and posting the results on soundclick, folks in the old Songs forum said some nice things about some of my songs. I would copy some of those comments and put them on my SC 'comments' page. I got a big head from them and thought I was the "Next Big Thing" when actually I was just a thing. ? At some point, I copied that section from SC and put it in a document in one of my now-dead computers. At some point, I backed-up that computer, so here it is, direct from the dusty archives, reviews of some of my songs. "Never Going Home": Nice little tune. Rolifer I love the guitar, the tune, the thoughtful lyrics. Mamabear very thought provoking. Truckermusic very nice guitar work. CreatingNoise Wow, Greg. Very nice. It put a lump in my throat. RobertB This song definitely packs a wollap, (sic) Taylor_514C a very lovely piece. mstodge Beautiful sound on that acoustic and your voice fits this well. I'm downloading this baby!! This is the sound that I want to achieve. lhansen Wow! Simple yet very powerful. amateur Good atmosphere, nice tune. ascottdesign excellent, The guitar stlye (sic) you picked supported the story line very well. Nutty Wow! Such a lonely sound to the guitar and lyrics. Danley Very nice work. love the guitar on this. sound fx on this are really good. very nice indeed! Beagle This song is very powerful. I haven't been quite the same since I heard it. Its very sad, and evokes such contemplation as to be more akin to a classic of our time. BOBK Great stuff Greg - very powerful and very moving. SteveStrummerUK "The Girl Of My Dreams": Got a little beach boys vibe there. robby Wow! I really like this. Mamabear fun song. musiccontinuum Well written song with some sweet changes to make it sound like a fresh oldie. No How Wonderful harmonies on this doo-wop piece of music. Well done! lhansen Greg, you rock! Excellent song. tdye "Lost In You": This is a great song, Greg! Mamabear I like the tune. robby You have created a very stylized soundstage. No how Nice tune! nice easy sound. Beagle this is a great composition. Lyrics, melody, accompaniment, all done well. tdye Instruments, arrangement and soundstage sound pretty good. Paul Russell Some of the names might be familiar to old-timers. Hard to remember which song they're talking about if it's not mentioned.

Looks more like a levitation machine to me.

We are all traveling through time.

I don't know about the PRV, but in the Staff View, you just click the Pedal button and then click it in below the staff wherever you want it, depending on Snap values. You can also grab the Off message (asterisk) and drag it for either a longer or shorter sustain time.

Losing any friend is tough. Losing a long-time musical collaborator and friend must be especially hard. RIP.

Welcome to the forum. There is no audio with MIDI, only data. The meter movement you see is not audio, but activity. Assuming you're using a MIDI track and not a Simple Instrument Track. Does the track have an input selected? Yes, you have activity. Arm the track, then press record.

Well, they're simpler. Probably don't have as many geegaws as CbB, but I never use that stuff anyway. I write, arrange and record my simple songs, and they do that. I'm simple, too. I am certain chart-ready songs were recorded with older versions of Cakewalk software and I understand that many folks want all the latest... whatever. Of course, if you never bought any of those old programs, on disk, then you won't be able to use them, natch. As Glenn mentioned, there are other software available, which have different interfaces and functionality, and may require an outlay of cash, but it can be done. I also am (semi-) retired and on a fixed income, plus some part-time work to pad the wallet, and I probably will buy the new Sonar when it's ready. Anyway, good luck and happy recording, whatever you choose to use.

Easy. Just use one of your old programs, like Music Creator or Home Studio. I still use SONAR Home Studio 6.

Back to my original post; All I had to do is sign in.

Now I see the new update is available. I haven't tried that, so if that is the one you're having problems with, sorry. There are several posts about it in the stickies at the top of this forum.

All I had to do was sign in, it was refreshed.

"The Sit and ****". Try a dish from our Strummer's Curry and Vindaloo menu.

Did it come with a manual?

OHMG! I'm positive I smell trademark infringement. Or at least "Anode to a Copperhead" by The Serpent Killers.

Given the exclamation point, I'll assume that's a good thing.

craigb itihrn: OMG! Now I'm having flash-backs to those friends that had one of those odd combo organs! ? Like this? My oldest brother gave me one of these when I was 15. Much better than the Magnus Chord Organ we had before.

What is listed in the output section?

Ooh, ooh, I know the answer to that one! No.

Bapu, is that you?

Here is what is contained in this folder: DX7, CS1x,CS2x,CS6X/CS6R,CVP 103/105, CVP 107/109, DJx, DJx II, EXS, MU100, MU 90, PF P-100, PLG 1 and 2, PSR 280, PSR 340, PSR 540, PSR 640, PSR 740, PSR 8000, PSR 9000, QS 300, RS 7000, SO 3, S 80, SY 85, SY 22, SY 99, W 5/7, AN1x, DX11, EMT-10, FS2R, MU 50, PSR 300, PSR 500, PSR 520, PSR 530, PSR 6700, PSR 590, QY-10, SY-35, SY-55, SY-77, TG 100, TG 300, TG 33, TG 500, VL 70-M plus some others that don't make sense to me, like GRAK.DX7 .

Compare the preferences of SONAR to those of CbB and see if there are any differences.

Right. If you've imported the tracks, they're already there so you don't need inputs to record them into a track. In fact, I think you should set inputs to None unless you're recording into that track. Welcome to the forum.

On the wall at a local restaurant:

Did the VST scanner know the location of the plug-in? If not, enter the location into the Plug-in Manager's VST Scan Path box and try again. And welcome to the forum.