New user help

[Mrmonk]

Hi new to cakewalk, I have been trying to record a midi instrument by EastWest, when I hold down the key on the midi keyboard the sound continuously plays but the recording playback just makes a clipping sound and goes quiet doesn't play the sound, I have recorded other midi tracks but holding the key doesn't play any ideas 

Thank you

[reginaldStjohn]

Are you saying that when you play with the keyboard the sound are sustained if you hold down the key, but if you record and then playback the notes are all short?  Can you open the Piano Roll view (PVR) and look at the notes? Are they sustained or short?

Have you gone over any of the Tutorial in the tutorials part of this forum?