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57Gregy

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  1. And possibly no one else has experienced the problem so can't help.
  2. I've got Glen Campbell and Peter Frampton. And Jack Nicholson. I hear he plays a mean axe.
  3. I've been rethinking my response. If all I'm doing is thinking about music, is that actually creating music? Or must you have something tangible to hold or feel or hear in order to have a 'creation'? Existentialism on a Sunday morning. I suppose the fact that I could create something from my thoughts makes it a creation-in-waiting. But uncreated. My head hurts now.
  4. I have never touched any Gain controls in any of my projects. That may be reflected in the final mix. ?
  5. I say no. Even though I rarely sit at the DAW and create, I have music in my head all the time. Other people's songs sometimes, but mostly just thinking melodies and rhythms. What I lack is the energy to sit down at the DAW for hours and do something with them. Inertia is a dangerous thing.
  6. Clicking in notes in the PRV or Staff will have a fixed velocity, but that can be changed. The SI-Drums synth does react to the different velocities written into them.
  7. Welcome. This is probably something to do with your keyboard; Cakewalk by Bandlab (CbB) records what is sent to it. What make and model is the keyboard?
  8. Welcome to the forum. You should be able to slide/drag any type of clip where you want it to be, depending on your Snap settings. There is also Process>Nudge. If you know what the offset is, you can set your Nudge values to that amount and use that to move the clip(s) with just a few clicks.
  9. They got a lot of cacti in British Columbia? ? I'm glad to see Cakewalk becoming more international and more people coming here for advice. I'm even happier when one of the forum members can answer in the OP's language.
  10. With Cakewalk open, press P (Preferences) on the computer keyboard. You should see everything you need to know in there.
  11. And just to be clear; in my 19 years using Cakewalk software, I've never needed any kind of keyboard to use the software and hear what I created. I do have one, though. You can enter notes in a MIDI track with the mouse and set up that track to play through a software synthesizer and hear it without a keyboard. It's all in the set up. These guys will help you get there. And many of us are older folks; I'm 64. How are you getting MIDI data into a track?
  12. Well, I think freezing or bouncing would be faster. I don't know why you're getting these results and I've never tried to do it that way. Read up on Automation. Once you have your recorded, bounced or frozen audio tracks, you can automate the volumes of the tracks by riding the faders while it's playing and be able to easily adjust any 'wrong' levels you may have entered by moving the nodes you created. Of course, that should be done without riding the faders while recording the tracks, your method.
  13. Base 57, glad you got power back. Next: Flying cars!
  14. Under Preferences>MIDI Devices, you should have something selected for input and output. Since this is a "no drivers needed" keyboard, it may be something like 'Generic USB MIDI Driver' If that is chosen for both input and output, you should be able to set up a MIDI track to record, record your performance, and then play it back through the Casio and hear it if the Casio has speakers or you have your headphones plugged into it. If you have the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synthesizer selected for output, you should be able to hear it from your computer's speakers.
  15. I don't really understand this. If there is data in the MIDI tracks, it is already recorded. To get the audio from the soft synths, you can Freeze the tracks of Bounce the tracks or export the tracks. Maybe it's something new in CbB that I haven't heard of? Or something old in CbB I've never heard of. ?
  16. 57Gregy

    Learning about MIDI

    It's probably available somewhere. In 2002, I was wanting to get back into recording, so I bought guitars, a keyboard (with drum patches), a microphone and a TASCAM Portastudio tape recorder. Going to do it the old-fashioned way. But my brother the programmer kept telling me to get into computer recording instead. He said it would be easier and I'd be able to do more. I resisted, mainly because I was a new computer user at that time. We went to Circuit City and I found a copy of Cakewalk's Music Creator 2003, which was MC 2 with a MIDI-to-gameport connector, for $50. I bought it and my brother gave me that book. I haven't looked back.
  17. I have never read "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" nor seen any of the iterations on film or television, until yesterday. Now I know where Slartibartfast got his handle. The things we learn. Well, as long as you're still learning, you're not dead. Oh, there was music in the movie, too.
  18. Wait a minute. Wasn't he... Isn't he... shouldn't all Tony Iommi guitars be left-handed? I'm so confused. ?
  19. 57Gregy

    Learning about MIDI

    Steal This Book! Apologies to Abbie Hoffman. And Craig A.
  20. Or does it stop where the 'Now' line is in your image? What happens if you drag the clip to the 2nd or 3rd measure instead of the first? What sound card or audio interface are you using? Is it a Simple Instrument Track? I think it must be since there is only one track. Try inserting the SI Drums synth not as a Simple Instrument Track but with a MIDI track and a soft synth track. Drag the clip into the MIDI track. I just tried what you're doing; a simple instrument track with SI Drums and the "Clean" clip dragged in from SI Drum's browser. On a pretty off-the-shelf HP computer from 10 years ago using the onboard RealTek sound chip. No problems at all. I also did the separate audio and MIDI tracks, also no problems. Welcome to the forum.
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