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Saving as MIDI file will allow you to open the MIDI on just about any computer or DAW. When I double-click a .mid it will open and play in Windows Media Player or Groove Music without a problem, except the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth sounds are not so good. You would also still have access to the notation, which is part of the MIDI standard. And open them in just about any modern DAW. Not if you also saved the MIDI. In most of my projects, I bounce down or record all my MIDI to audio, archive and hide the MIDI and soft synth tracks. Keeping it all audio is easier for me to mix.

What were Beatle boots called before the Beatles started wearing them? Boots.

It's good to see folks getting out and playing again. My friend TJ's band Inanimus just played their first gig in almost 2 years, a party, but that's a start.

Hasn't helped me. ?

I believe that if you've exported to MP3, then it is audio. MIDI itself makes no sounds; it must be played through some sort of synthesizer which makes the sounds. You probably already knew that. Furthermore, no VST or DX synths or effects are saved in any format, just references to where they are on the computer. Saving MIDI as .mid should open and play forever on a MIDI-capable machine, but the synths won't be there. Saving a Cakewalk by Bandlab project as a .cwp or .cwb should open in any Cakewalk program, but not on any old computer without Cakewalk. Just a note about .cwb (bundle) files. There have been reports of instability with them, but I've never had a problem. I would save my songs as audio and .mid, mixed down and separate tracks to CD, DVD, external hard drives, thumb drives, the cloud, etc. if I wanted to preserve them for a semi-eternity. All that being said, I'm on my first cup of coffee and may be blowing wind.

Could you elaborate? There are probably a bunch of us thinking, what?

At my age, I didn't know I had a choice. Every day is a science experiment; will it be liquid, solid or gas? Sorry.

I once had a bunch of songs I wanted to record, so I did that. That must have been all of them since I haven't recorded anything useful in a couple of years. The most novel way I've seen Cakewalk (SONAR) used was a few years ago one of our fellows had a track day for his Miata club. He recorded a Hero video of his laps and later used SONAR to overdub the sound of a Porshe race car over the video. Who was that?

"Wet or Dry?" Doesn't matter; you can fix it in the mix.

Cool. Glad to help.

This sounds like a plug-in that is in demo mode. Often they will make a noise if they are not purchased or activated in some way. Try disabling the plug-ins one by one until you find the culprit. With all of the sound being muted, it would likely be an effect on your Master bus. More answers to come, I'm sure. There may be other possibilities, too.

Turn off Snap?

What's an Alembic?

I was about to write, maybe Randy Meisner needs a gig.

That's because you have the TASCAM selected for input and output and using the ASIO driver, You must use the TASCAM for all sound output, using headphones or connecting the interface to an amplifier with speakers attached to it or powered speakers.

Maybe this will make you feel better: Seventy is actually the last year of the sixties. That gives you, what? Twenty-seven more months? And ten days.

I'm pretty sure it's the channel assignments. The default patch is piano. If no channel or patch is selected, you would hear piano in a MIDI file, regardless of the soft synth you used while recording. And as mentioned above, the MIDI file doesn't remember what soft synth you used when recording, so will default to a General MIDI synth such as your computer's Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth on playback. Welcome to the forum.

I have always used them. I have pretty lightweight systems, so I monitor MIDI from my Yamaha keyboard (MIDI in to the DAW and out to the keyboard as I play/record) instead of using soft synths or worrying about a USB MIDI driver. Seems to use less processor. I started doing it that way in the time before USB-MIDI and just have kept it up. Plus, I need that USB port for other things. ?

The answer is always 'C'.

S. Cook. ?

Nobody thinks randomly anymore.

I think you mean the 'Scrub' tool. That will allow you to drag the cursor across a clip and hear it. Hit the J key on your computer keyboard and the cursor will change to a speaker icon and you can then scrub by click-dragging. Hit J again to turn it off. I don't think you can enter just the chord letter. I just tried it and it always placed the chord diagram above the staff. You then would have to right-click that diagram to navigate to the chord you actually want (it defaults at 'C'). You can, however, use the Expression button and type in your chord letters, but they won't be above the staff but below it.

Who got band?

All the tracks are shi!te.