Cakewalk by Bandlab Instruments update

[Adu Khay]

Hello, please I am here to annonce to you all that cakewalk is the best free DAW, that's just a name but not free. Because anything you want use in the DAW, you have to download it somewhere before. Please we need an update on how to use the piano roll, we have to set keys before we can start making any beat and, we should lock the key so that we could not use a wrong key or note when making our projects

[SirWillyDS12]

17 minutes ago, Adu Khay said:

Please we need an update on how to use the piano roll

Piano Roll view

18 minutes ago, Adu Khay said:

we have to set keys before we can start making any beat and, we should lock the key so that we could not use a wrong key or note when making our projects

Setting the Meter and Key signatures

 

There you go... Read up...

[Adu Khay]

Yes, you are right, I know how to set the key but I don't how to lock it, and also we have to choose whether we are playing a minor or major

[Chaps]

1 hour ago, Adu Khay said:

Yes, you are right, I know how to set the key but I don't how to lock it, and also we have to choose whether we are playing a minor or major

That's where music theory comes in. Every major key has a relative minor key, and vice-versa, that uses the same key signature. Let's say you want to do a song in e minor. E minor is the relative minor of G Major and they use the same Key Signature. So if you need to pick a key signature for e minor it would be the same as G Major. Same notes, same distances between the notes, The difference being that in G Major the scale starts on G and in e minor it starts on E. 

A handy rule of thumb is that in a major scale, the Relative Minor Scale would start on the 6th scale degree of the Major Scale, and the Relative Major Scale would start on the 3rd Scale degree of the minor scale. 

Here is a website with the basics of knowing which key signature to use for Major and minor keys.

Relative Major and Minor Keys.

[Starship Krupa]

On 12/22/2024 at 6:27 PM, Adu Khay said:

we should lock the key so that we could not use a wrong key or note when making our projects

Are you referring to the Snap To Scale feature? It's not in the most obvious place, but it does make it so that all notes you enter will be within the scale you set:

 

 

Edited Thursday at 03:38 PM by Starship Krupa