Cakewalk by BandLab Tutorial (Part 1) - Getting Started and Layout
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Cakewalk by BandLab Tutorials
Part 1 - Getting Started and Layout: • Cakewalk by BandLab Tu...
Part 2 - Recording and Editing Audio: • Cakewalk by BandLab Tu...
Part 3 - MIDI Recording and Editing: • Cakewalk by BandLab Tu...
Part 4 - Virtual Instruments: • Cakewalk by BandLab Tu...
Part 5 - Mixing and ProChannel: • Cakewalk by BandLab Tu...
Part 6 - Effects & Plugins: • Cakewalk by BandLab Tu...
Part 7 - Automation and Control Surfaces: • Cakewalk by BandLab Tu...
Part 8 - Master Channel and Exporting: • Cakewalk by BandLab Tu...
Drum Replacement: • Drum Replacement Tutor...
Overloud TH3 Amp Simulation: • Cakewalk by BandLab Ef...
Cakewalk by BandLab is a free digital audio workstation that’s great for home recording. In part 1 of this tutorial series, we cover how to get Cakewalk installed and the layout of the program.
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I've been doing this for a lot of years (1994) and one thing I've learned....
This shit ain't easy. Cakewalk is no cakewalk. Every time I have upgraded I am presented with a new set of problems. Things that used to operate one way, operate differently on the new DAW. Hot keys that made my workflow almost effortless now cause different things to happen. And this frustration comes AFTER finally getting the other hardware and software to be recognized by the new DAW. I can't begin to count the times that any musical inspiration has been extinguished and replace with total frustration just trying to figure out how to get the ideas in my head onto the HD.
All of that to say that this: I don't need the latest and greatest ANYTHING. If I have something that is working and I'm able to get work done with the least amount of frustration, I'll keep using it as long as I can. This however, was a pretty significant upgrade for me. A new laptop, a new DAW, beginning to use almost all plug-ins instead of MIDI modules. It's a lot to learn, and I'm thinking it will be worth it once over the hump of the learning curve which is pretty steep even with the help that I have (friends) and tutorials such as this one.
I appreciate you taking the time to go through this robust program and I intend to watch all of the series several times, as well as keep them on hand for referencing.
I hear you brother. They need to make DAWs more intuitive for us musicians. We have songs to write and don't want to spend time on all of these high level production and editing features.
Ditto brothas, ditto... How I miss Logic, but man absolutely
Refuse to work on "apphole" anything. Once you've gotten
Used to it, CakeW is p seriously cool tho
Thanks so much for doing this vid but for complete beginners they will have no idea of the terms you are talking about. When you mention something it might be a good idea to briefly explain it. Best Wishes !
Highly recommend for beginners that wants to know every single bit of this program's feature! This helped me immensely I swear
With zero knowledge and talent on music production I'm here to learn and I choose cakewalk because it's free. I dedicated my 2022 to learn this. Hope this worth my time. Thank you for your tutorials❤️🙌
.. and... how is it going?
I see that many people are having problems understanding what the guy is saying.
Actually, I think I can do some help. If you've got cakewalk, close this tutorial go to the "Cakewalk" and use options. Do whatever you want there. Click anywhere, just try learning yourself.
When I first got this DAW I closed the screen just after seeing how complicated it is.
I then came to TH-cam to watch tutorials. But then I couldn't understand anything.
So for the next 2-3 days I opened the DAW and did random stuff there.
Now I pretty much understand what this guy's talking about.
Try this!
OMG the haters.
1. This is just an overview; you don't need to understand everything.
2. There is a pause button. I used it between each section and tried them out on Cakewalk myself. Super useful!
Thank you for doing this tutorial series. You have done an exceptionally excellent job of providing information and clarity but not lingering too long or going down any rabbit holes. That is not an easy balance to strike and there are millions of examples where other people did not.
I’ve been excited to go back to Cakewalk and your series has really helped me cut to the chase and understand the potentials. Thank you!!!
When you're a music related channel but you use royalty free ukulele
lmao
be grateful
wtf does that even mean
When you need to learn how. But criticize the instructor 👨🏫🤨
Short, sweet, and to the point. Thank you for making this tutorial.
That's the thing about FL Studio ...it's SO intuitive and inviting ..You can figure it out yourself basically until you are looking to find out more advanced techniques ..I just downloaded cakewalk and I definitely needed to find tutorials like this to get a better feel for it..
This is the best tutorial since SONAR: Master Class - Drum Production, and that was 7 years ago. thank you great video!
Throughly presented ✨☄️💥🤛it’s really good to see Cakewalk in an updated status 🌪🌪
BTW, thanks for making these videos. I daized out within a few minutes but maybe after the 7th time and more practical experience I'll be able to relate with losing focus.
k I'm sorry, but I have no flipping idea on what your talking about and I have no idea where to/how to start
Yep he covers way to much way to quickly. You can't do a tutorial of a GUI of that complexity in less than 10 mins. This video is nothing more than an overview.
@@somegeezer4058 It also assumes you have prior experience and knowledge with home music production.
@@Martinez-mr3uy you got it, this tutorial is perfect for me, Cakewalk seems to be quite a complex DAW so it's almost obvious you should already know broadly terms and mechanics, how does MIDI works, what's an automation and so on. If someone doesn't know you can easly check this out on google, then come here again.
This stuff isn't easy. Take your time. You're not going to get immediate results. If this stuff was easy enough to explain in ten minutes it wouldn't be so worthwhile a pursuit, would it?
Unmute please.
Thanks so much for this video series!!!! Saved me a lot of headaches!
This is a tutorial to introduce you to the program not to teach you about music theory and basic nomenclature of audio enginnering so if you don't understand most of what the commands he's explaining do you should first go back and try to learn about that with tutorials/courses that are about these subjects and then come back here.
click on video settings to change his speaking voice to 0.25. helps to have extra time to think about what he's saying. plus it sounds hilarious. win win!
I actually changed it to 1.5
What setting changes his voice to masculine?
Great job covering everything in this series - you are the best explainer on youtube! Could you do another on creating a basic song from start to finish using Cakewalk?
Straight 2 the point
HI, is there basic primer i can review to understand the theory before watching this tutorial.
i couldn't follow many things told in this tutorial.
I might get to record on cakewalk some day. It is a little hard for a navice. I would recommend garage band for beginners.
I don't have the 'lenses' option so half this stuff I can't see - wouldn't the basic be the better option for beginners?
I've been wondering why these DAWs are all so horrifically complicated to use. I think it is because they were developed by software engineers for sound engineers to use. Unfortunately in 2020, there is no money in music, so no budget for sound engineers. Us poor musicians now have to learn how to be sound engineers in our spare time and for free. It would be great if Cakewalk could create a simplified version of their software for us musicians.
Whenever i klick in New Projekt there is nothing to selekt. Like for example you could click on Emty projekt but mine doesnt show these options. PLEAS HELP.
Just FYI the first time i opened cakewalk i could selekt empty Projekt but after the first time it never showed again. I even tried to re install it and restart my pc but nothing worked.
Maybe you should look for a tutorial on how to make tutorials. I've watched all 4 of them and I still can't do anything more than the basics that I found by intuition. Or call it "overview".
Travis Theory ok, thanks. I was misled by the "getting started"
i just want to make a backing track for my guitar but i dont understand anything here
Great thanks for giving the detail, i like this tutorial concept, keep posting on cakewalk . I like basics like this, make more for other details it will help us as beginners like me
pls update desc to add the fact that this program is now PAID and not free. would appreciate that
The audiosnap palette does not activate anymore ..... You don't know what it could be due to, thanks for the videos !!
When you know your shit gone ride and you just need to understand the process
Fantastic Your Home Recording, thanks!!
If Your Usb mic DONT WORK you must go to Edit Preferencis and Change Playback Recording Driver mode I use WASAPI Shared and works fine for my Mic and Audio setup
how can I add a program change that matches the piano sound on my MIDI keyboard
Where can I find official support for this software? I have problems when I upgraded it from Sonar.
Really good tutorial. But I think it's updated now. I couldn't find the lencers workpalce.
Thanks dude.. I knew audacity wasn't for me.
It's not a digital audio workstation...
You're a hero! Tysm
Great video
Hello, I wanna use pitch bend down or up steady. Please show me how! Thank you so much!
Some pitch bend plugins or MIDI instruments will have an automation lane for pitch bend, or it can be saved as a MIDI continuous controller.
Why do you suppose we have to connect with Google to use an exe file seems weird
How do I make my downloaded plug-ins and samples visible in the little « my music » section ? And on which type of format do I have to put them under ?
when will there be autotune to bandlab on pc?
i just install all my 64 bit and uninstall the 32 1s .do u hav any idea when am hearing a click or small lag at the beginning of the track any time am doin a melody or drums?
To give you an idea of why this video isn't as helpful as it could be, let's take an example. If I import a solo track and want to use an effect on it, what is the sequence of events? Do I have to click on the FX button and then go to Add Effects and choose one, or the other way around? Or just add the effect without clicking on the FX button? I suggest tackling one subject at a time, rather than trying to do so much that a beginner is going to learn nearly nothing, but thanks for your effort.
What does 'arming a track' and 'automation' mean?
Arming - If you already have a number of tracks, and you want to record on one of them, Cakewalk needs to to know WHICH track you want to record on. It will record on ALL armed tracks. So be careful to only arm the one(s) you want to record on, or else you'll be recording on/over tracks you may not want recorded on.
automation allows you to make adjustments to tracks while they are playing and cakewalk remembers those adjustments and "performs" them again on future playback.
I'm not having the instruments in cakewalk what should I do. How to get them
Great video not sure why people are confused if you don’t know what he is talking about then maybe you should watch a music production video for beginners.
Great tutorial. I'm subscribing
I can't seem to figure out how to pull up tracks 1 through 8 in cakewalk using a Tascam 16X08. When I go to add a track it gives me Left/Right & Stereo 1, Left/Right & Stereo 3, Left/Right & Stereo 5, etc. Only odd numbers. I thought it would be a simple as add track 1, add track 2, add track 3, etc. Does this make sense? Can you help?
Question: How do I get the Instrument Suite if I didn't choose to install it originally? Thanks for any help.
my cakewalk doesn’t even have the option to start a new project or anything like that. it’s just blank? what did i do wrong
Appreciate it sir
hey i have a question. As i were recording my vocals, the vocal track is recording my vocal and also my minus one music. how do i record my vocals only without the music ?
when i go to the new project tab, nothing is there. its blank.
Cho tôi hỏi trong Sonar át những bài karaoke Video cho hát rùi chia hình ra màn kia như thế nào a,?
Hi
What am I doing wrong when I hear several tracks on the new track on my song.
It has never happened before so for sure I am doing something wrong.
It's all trail and error.
But sometimes we help.
I used cake walk sonar 4 for years. I recently downloaded this one. I don't like it that much but it is the future. My biggest complaint is that they put the mouse functions on the F keys, F7, F8 etc. Back in sonar 4, 'e' was erase, 'd' was draw. 's' is select. What i'm saying is, I don't get it, I put the program on a laptop for now. The F keys are used for laptop functions like brightness, volume etc... That means I have to hold the function key on the way left and reach over to the top right of the keyboard. Not very possible unless I let go of the mouse and that would defeat the purpose of trying to use a hot key. Really really dumb in my opinion.
This is so useful. Thanks
I have a problem, I installed cakewalk and launched it but my "new project" window is completely empty. Any help?
I'm having the same problem plus im not getting any media sec or plugin sec.
Go to "file", then "new"
You haven't left the link in the description but thanks.......
Informative and interesting. Thanks.
im a complete beginner, can i still use my plugins from my fl studio?
Does anybody know how I can make all the keys on my midi sound with the same volume? My midi keyboard is totally fine, and when I used Fl studio I just adjusted velocity flat and my keys just sounded with the same volume, but the volume wouldn’t change no matter how hard I pressed on them. Maybe can I do the same in Cakewalk or even better can I make my keys sound with the same volume but with the remaining of the function “when I press harder it is louder”?
How can i use one shot audio samples in Cakewalk? In Fl Studio you can just drag and drop samples in the step sequencer but Cakewalk doesn't let you do that. Is there way to use audio samples in the step sequencer in Cakewalk?
I just want to know the setting that I need to get sound when I press a key on my midi. Dear God, can somebody just tell me that. I've looked at every single daw and midi video on youtube.
Hello I downloaded cakewalk but I trying to figure out how to import drum kits 🥁 and sample packs but I am not sure how to do it! Thoughts?
Try native instruments. It has a bunch of premade sample packs and affects that you can import into your daw.
DerpThe Flerp Thank You and for some reason when I change the key the scale in the piano roll doesn't change do you have that problem?
@@sinm619 I have never tried piano roll, if you can tell me where to find it i might find the problem :)
Hi, thanks for this vid it really helped! Questin tho, i have a different type of flexible IO example. Can i still run it on my V studio 700 panel system? With that being said i'm completly new to this all and i was wondering.. The Sonar panel system needs to be attached to the mother board of your computer right? Not the flexible IO true or false? And i have an older system software for my sonar v studio 700c does that really matter much or can i still run it?
(I just bought this amazing piece of art but i'm completly new to this so yeah.. I was wondering all this! Thanks for everything man! Would love to see a reaction from someone!
Does anyone know if using some generic video/course on producing music in a DAW would help? I had to stop to google "track lanes", and I'm pretty sure I will be searching for things every 10 minutes. I don't know what the best way is to learn this stuff.
Hi,does it work with Jsonar and Jaws for blind people?
Man, please. I need help! I've done so many things and my CWBB is still in demo mode. I've installed, uninstalled, then reinstalled like 5 times, always logged into my account and still in demo mode. What's going on?
did you create a proper bandlab account or only sign in via facebook or google?
Yeah bro i can't get it out of demo.mode either and ivr been had BandLab.
What is Demo Mode? Do you have BandLab Assistant, mine says Free - Activated by BandLab Assistant
open it via the assistant
I just downloaded and installed the app and I have the full version. Since this is all new since April it may be that there was a glitch at the time you tried. Try again and see how it goes.
how do i solve 'unable to create new audio file for recording' in cakewalk ?
yes but I cannot hear ANYTHING
i have the same problem! If you find out anything please tell me!
Very nice when will you finish the series
I'm releasing a video every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. There are 8 videos in the series.
great video. i have question, my audio interface is allen-heath QU 24 SERIES, when i try to record an audio i can't hear in playback, is there any adjustment i need to do? thanks.
God bless you
My stuff won't sync on bandlab like it's been 2 weeks and I can't delete it can someone help me
hey for some reason whenever I have cakewalk running I physically cannot play youtube videos, making it impossibly hard to follow along. Any idea how to fix?
In Edit > Preferences > Playback And Recording > Driver Mode
You might be using WASAPI Exclusive.
WASAPI Exclusive only lets 1 program use the driver at one, while WASAPI Shared lets multiple programs play audio.
Try testing out other driver modes to see what works.
You need to create another video for Dummies. Love to uses program, but it is very complicated.
I'm having an issue. I can play on the DAW just fine, but when I start recording, the notes all of a sudden get static like. Is there a way to fix this?
Crackly sound? I think your buffer rate might be too low. Bring it up to 512ms.
hello i installed cakewalk and imported a midi track but i am not hearing anything when i click the play. i see the track moving and i see response in the sound meter but i am not hearing any thing, how do i solve this ?
Connect a vst
Try to adjust your drive mode from WASAPI to ASIO or MME 32 bit.
Bro....you need to slow down, alright. Try to cover one small portion at a time. You are just flying every where bro..
Can you add the instrument suite after you download cakewalk/ if so how?
Open the BandLab assistant and go to apps. Use the drop down next to open for Cakewalk. Select Install Add-Ons and check Studio Instruments Suite.
Thanks
I didn't install the melodyne. Any idea how to do it after installing cakewalk?
the moment i open a projekt all my audio gets fucked up and i cant use youtube (audioline missing please restart your pc) and my team speak which totaly gets fucked up and cant use any of my mics or speakers
this program is so fucking scuffed
Sorry but if you were standing before a group of students wishing to learn this subject , they would have walked out on you after just a few minutes .You make it like your reading from a tax return .
can i still use my m-audio axiom air mini 32 in cakewalk?
Of course, you can, it's a Midi controller, just make sure you click it in the Midi section in Preferences...
Can you remove vocals on this program ?
I'm not sure. I've never used it for that. But if you need something free to do that, you can try Audacity.
Do I need a doctorate degree to be able to record?? This video is on steroids .. you're going like a thousand miles an hour :-(
Before you can understand the concepts of calculus 2, you must first take calculus 1 . . . as noted above, be patient and thorough and you will start to understand the complex slowly but surely if you are a newbie to the Cakewalk DAW. Then you will be able to have some fun with it. I remember looking at Sonar 4 for the first time . . . intimidating!
@@guitarxy1948 It's definitely a process. I've had Sonar X3 for quite some time and gave up on it for years. Now I'm slowly getting back into it. I got frustrated because instead of just making music, I was spending so much time just figuring out the software. Kind of kills the creative process. Bandlab seems very similar to Sonar so these tutorials are a help. Learning the navigation/editing tools is what I'm concentrating on right now. This is after learning how to configure my audio interface and Korg M50 keyboard, and just being able to add new tracks, and successfully being able to record my vocals with some reverb and some simple midi tracks. Drums are a whole other beast, I still have to learn about mapping drums. I have a 1000+ page book on how to use Sonar X3 so it's just a lot to learn. Terms like eq, compression, gate, etc. are completely foreign to me. I'm still just scratching the surface. Recording my music should be fun, but learning how to use the software is hard work.
mr. jinks that’s my problem. I get frustrated because I have to learn the software and I feel like it does slow me down from making the music
Pablo Cancinos I’ve been making Cakewalk tutorials for a long time and I have to say, these vids are really on point man. Great to see others teaching about this powerful DAW!
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Errrrm ain't got a clue what you just talked about . How do I make a tune on it
I just downloaded it and was following along until you got to input monitoring for the tracks. I dont have that in my version of the software. Also others are right, you are going so quickly your video is next to useless.
Ok I sort of fighured it out. When I go into Advanced I see the input monitoring....unfortunately your video fails on explaining this.
you never left the link
i just want to put sound samples on a timeline and make a song.. why it this so fucking hard?!? any other programs that are not made to create actual music? i just want to do fucking psystyle music becouse no fucking artist makes 3/4 beat hardstyle music
Please treat us all as neanderthal's and slow down and make about a 100 videos starting from scratch and demonstrate each button with a guitar etc so we can actually see what we need to do.
I see bandlab logo and think bandaid
bro whatever you are showing 60% is not in my cakewalk sofware
I'm not sure what you are seeing, but I have the most up to date version of this software installed on my computer right now and it still looks the same as when I created this video.
@@YourHomeRecording i agree with Pramod Karanam, just downloaded and installed 14/10/2020 half the tools/buttons are not there compared to what is shown in your tutorial.
didnt open like my download
If you’re having issues with installation, we have a new video on the channel covering how to install Cakewalk.
My layout is so different and lame
David Cogan your on bandlab, not cakewalk by bandlab😂😂
You should hire for a job like manual reader. Don't you think that people are able to read by themselves?
You are able to zoom into specific sections, but don't explain how you do that. Like other videos I've seen, you move so fast that it is near impossible to figure out what the heck you are doing. I'm not going to see any more videos from your channel.
It doesn't seem like a cake walk...
Why, when you're producing an instruction video and especially going so fast, do you feel the need to play MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUIND??? Are you trying to distract your audience?