14 Random Tips to Help you use Cakewalk by Bandlab Better
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- This video is a follow-up to our podcast episode on Song Talk Radio where we talked about general tips for using Digital Audio Workstations. Check out the podcast here:
songtalk.ca/shows/home-record...
0:00 Introduction
1:23 Tip #1: Auto-save and versioning
2:28 Tip #2: Selecting an audio device
3:14 Tip #3: Make use of templates
5:12 Tip #4: On Stop, Rewind to Now Marker toggle
5:43 Tip #5: Standardize the ProChannel
6:15 Tip #6: Use “Follow Bus Color”
6:45 Tip #7: Change all your MIDI inputs at once
7:32 Tip #8: Rename your virtual synths in the Synth Rack
7:53 Tip #9: Use velocity settings in the Step Sequencer
8:55 Tip #10: Name your tracks BEFORE you hit record
9:40 Tip #11: Realign the grid to your recording
15:12 Tip #12: Use Shift-CTRL to stretch an audio clip
15:44 Tip #13: Start with saving a session in Mix Recall
17:17 Tip #14: Use Offset Mode when mixing
Been using cakewalk from the beginning. In the 90s learned lotta good Nuggets about using audio in this video.
Very useful and thanks for sharing your hard work and expertise.
Thank you for this Neel
Excellent tips....thank you!
"That's all I have for this video" sounds you like did only give a small amount of information. I use Cakewalk for about two years now and these tips are incredibly helpful!
Haha, yeah, I guess I did cover a lot, but there's still many things I didn't. Glad you found it helpful
Very useful. Thanks.
Yes! Really helpful Thanks!
sweet thankx alot !!
thank you so much!! this tips are the best!!
Wow. What a great presentation. For the first, virtually every one of your tips were revelations to me, and will be very useful. It’s rare to find such direct, well explained, no hype, just great info. Love your style, no wasted words, but explained at a level that we all can understand the concept (and also nice that you point out “it might be weird” etc. such as saving mixes before you being, though that made perfect sense to me, have don’t it always. Really, every tip here was a gem! I have subscribed, belled, and liked this! Now I’m going to check out your other ones! Thanks so much. It’s rare to find this level of instruction. The only other consistent cakewalk tutorial help I find at this level is “creative sauce”. Great job! Made me very happy to discover your videos!
Thank you so much! So glad you found the tips useful.
Very, very helpful. Thank you.
Great stuff, mate! Thanks for that really useful tips!! Did not know ANY of them!
Fit Improvisation is a quick tool to adjust tempo. You record a MIDI click to match the music tempo and it adjusts the tempo to your improvisation.
Another trick would be to use audio and click drumsticks to the beat, and record that. You get better transients on the beat.
Of course both of these methods rely on you playing as accurately as required to match the original beat.
Extremely useful. I’m a huge fan of creating custom templates for different kind of projects. I had no idea how offset worked. Thank you.
I've been using Cakewalk for like 25 years, and I just learned some cool stuff. I never have understood offset mode until now, thanks so much.
Great to hear!
Thank you for this video. I’ve been using Cakewalk since Sonar 3 and several of these tips were new to me. Can’t wait to try them on my next project!
My first time watching your channel and I must say you tutorial is one of the best and decent one I have seen about Cakewalk by Bandlab. You have a sweet voice and nice in person too. Great Job. I will you a million subscribers by next month. Thanks
Thanks❤
thanks for the tips. its very usefull
Thank you so much, this is going to be a huge help!
GREAT set of tips. Thanks, Neel!
Many thanks! I've been a Cakewalk user for over 20 years but some of your tips were things I was completely unaware of. Great stuff!
Very helpful. Thanks so much for taking the time to go through this.
Very helpful thanks.
Excellent tips, keep them coming
Your video just popped up in my feed...I genuinely didn't realise Cakewalk was still a thing ha!. I used to use versions 5-8 back in the day :)
Yep, it's still a thing, although back in 2018 we were all left in the lurch by Gibson when they dropped Sonar. Luckily Bandlab picked it up and now it's 100% free and more feature rich than ever. It's certainly worth checking out the latest version, you'll be very pleased with the new features.
good work man! I really appreciate this video...thanks greatly!
God Bless u awesome people of India ☝️
Really helpful stuff. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed.
Thanks - that was very useful. I found the section on setting the grid / tempo especially interesting - had no clue you could do that.
One of the best xplanation.
Thank you SIR
Great tips!
Very helpful.
Well done! thx for the tips
Excellent video! I'll subscribe to your channel. Thank you.
Thank you Very muchh for these tipss, it really help my day🙏🙏
Great tips. Thanks. Can you do a video on bit depth.
i wont use all, but some of the tips, with mix scene are much helpful
thx for tip 10
Nice one
This is massively extremely useful ❤️. Thank You for sharing this idea.
It would be nice if you make a video showing how to change the background colour, icons, e.t.c.
Thanks Saron. I'll be honest, I've never tweaked the look of Cakewalk, I'm happy to load a theme and get working on music. But if you install the Theme Editor through Bandlab Assistant, you can tweak to your heart's content.
@@NeelModi_dotcom I know that it is possible, but I have no idea how. I actually don't like the default theme of Cakewalk. If you don't like the theme, try it and if possible make a video about that.
@@NeelModi_dotcom many of them like it, don't use it. So this will be useful for many.
I have found very little useful information on setting up midi control surfaces. Yes, there are plenty how to get started vids but none that show how to configure say the transport controls of the Midi controller to communicate with Cakewalk. How to use the "Generic Control surface" or use the ACT feature. I have recently purchased an Alesis VI49 and there is next to no info and none from Alesis themselves just a manual that may as well be in hieroglyphics. Yes, I can play the Keyboard and punch the drum pads but ut would be nice to know how to use the rest of it.
There is a popular plug-in that many users use for this, made by a member of the old Sonar forums. I haven't tried it myself, but it may help you: www.azslow.com/index.php
Are you from India ?
Hi. Great video. I have problem with custom image in project templates. I did like you said ( png file, 172 sq, rename ) and it doesnt show up in Cakewalk. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you
Did you place the .png file in the same folder as your project templates?
@@NeelModi_dotcom yes I did
I have exactly the same problem. Did as you said but nothing shows up. I have noted the default icons for templates have pictures but the png files are not in the same folder as the template and I cannot find where they are located. Any thoughts?
Neel, please tell me how you figured out the trick with the Start Screen template icons. We've been trying to crack this one for months over at the Cakewalk forum
You mean to create the .png graphic? You can use a free app like Gimp
@@NeelModi_dotcom No,, I mean how did you figure out that naming them .cwt.png would result in them being automatically associated with the template in Start Screen?
@@Euthymia I don't recall how I figured it out, but it works, so I don't question it anymore!
@@NeelModi_dotcom it doesn't work for me. I copied your instructions exactly but no luck. I also cannot find the default selection of template icons anywhere on my PC so it's very strange. They are definitely not in the template folder you suggested.
sir i have an issue for recording AUDIO TRACK RECORDING.
how can i reset my cakewalk by bandlab? because every time i record 2nd or 3rd or more tracks, it records everything in the new track.
for example, i have finished recording on the first track, why is it that on the 2nd track, it records the first track even if i turned off the armed button of the first track??
please help sir
I suggest you post your issue here, the folks are very helpful: facebook.com/groups/sonarusergroup
@@NeelModi_dotcom i have requested to join the page sir
How can you set up Drum Loops without using a midi controller........IS that possible?
Use the step sequencer. Click on an active MIDI or Instrument track, then click on View...Step Sequencer. You can insert different drums with your mouse as I show in Tip #9.
Why do people always call it Cakewalk by Bandlab, and not just Cakewalk?
I believe it's so we can differentiate it from Cakewalk Sonar, which is still used by some people, even though it's now deprecated. Once enough time passes, we'll probably refer to the current software as Cakewalk.
Really useful thanks you 😃