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Beautiful. Where is that? I want to make sure I don't go there.

Cool song, again. Keep it up!

Cakewalk by Bandlab?

Welcome to the forum. Most of us have been in your situation. When I got started in 2002 with Cakewalk Music Creator 2003, I was also a new computer user. I knew none of the terms used in the DAW or Windows, so I was doubly lost. I didn't even discover the Cakewalk Forums until 2004 or 5, but I still managed to learn enough from the manual and Help files and tutorials to record several songs. For what you say you want to do, record songs, you don't need to know everything, and this forum will be your greatest asset. There are lots of folks here willing to help, with links and direct assistance, and searching the reference guide for unfamiliar phrases can help a lot. Most of the time I find that "I don't need that" and forget it. I'm just a recorder, too. Good luck!

If mousing, you don't need an input channel. When using multiple tracks, use different channels or a change of value in 1 track (velocity, volume) may affect another track using the same channel. That is if they're using the same synth. I think that's pretty much it.

And it's Dell that has had some problems in the past... getting it set up right. Anyone got links to the threads?

That's a question for the technoid folks, but I would guess that it's because it's from Microsoft. WASAPI is relatively new, and is Microsoft's response to the poor audio implementation previously. Apparently, they listened.

Without reading through the entire thread, what brand of computer is it? Some brands need extra care. This kinda reminds me of a problem I had in the aughts; I used a Sound Blaster Extigy (yeah, I know, but it was what Best Buy had. And it was a fine device even though there was no ASIO driver for it). The onboard RealTek kept grabbing the audio, no matter how many times I set it to the SB. I eventually deleted the RealTek HD Manager from the computer and all was good. It was an HP Media Center computer, which might have had something to do with it.

What about harmonica players? They can carry an entire orchestra in a vest. I've been a bass player, guitar player and keyboard player in different bands. They're all weighty, but bass was the easiest. One bass, one amp, one cable. That is if you don't help out with the PA.

I'm not John, but ASIO4All is a WDM wrapper.

How would you play them?

When Cakewalk started their Instrument Definitions forum, I wrote that I had a lot of old Yamaha IDs which I think I downloaded directly from Yamaha around 16 years ago. I just checked my hand-written list of the IDs in it and lo and behold, there is the SY 77. I hope it works for you! You should be able to open it with notepad, as I did. Of course, I wouldn't run it without first checking it for cooties. ? Good luck! YamahaSY77ID.txt

You're welcome. I googled (binged!) "ranges of musical instruments" and got several charts like that.

Still using mine. Well, I would be if I ever fired up the DAW.

Or he'll be living in the back yard!

Is the "name of a track" the track name all the way on the left in the Track Pane, or a clip in the track? If it's a clip, you might be inadvertently clicking in something.

That's some fin playing, too.

Yeah, it's not too attractive. I found it interesting that they would introduce such an old design so long after it was created. Sort of like the Moderne story Paul Young linked above, but waaaayyyy later.

Why not just drag the left part of the track to the right (slip edit), to the place you want to begin hearing it?

And are you referring to Cakewalk by Bandlab, the computer DAW, or Bandlab, the phone app?

Wow. Fifty. Chest pains. Sometimes I wonder how I made it this far. RIP.

? An easy fix and so obvious none of us thought of it. Have fun and welcome to the forum.

Number 9? Number 9. Number 9...

Right. That would seem to indicate that there is no specific driver for the keyboard or MIDI-to-USB cable. Sheeeawn, what is the make and model of the keyboard? Does it have a USB port or are you using a MIDI-to-USB adapter cable?