Hey, Mike. Good work. A couple of things: You do not need to select the Split Tool from the Tool menu. You just press "ALT", and while you do any other tool that you have selected changes momentarily to the Split Tool. ALT + click splits at cursor. If you ALT + drag select, you get splits at both sides of the selection. If you right click over an audio clip you get a "Set Snap Offset to Now Time" option in the menu that appears. With that, you can get your clip to snap at the first transient (or wherever you want, actually), no matter where the clip starts, so you can create your fade in and don´t worry about your clip snapping correctly. This is very useful for clips with pickup notes, or swells that do not start at a transient. About moving gain automation , with the Move tool selected you don´t need to actually select any nodes to move segments. Just hover over a part of the envelope and look at how the cursor shows one node, or a segment (two nodes). If you select several nodes, you´ll also get the possibility of moving the shape, and the cursor shows three nodes. And remember that you get your tool box at your cursor, including the Edit Filter, when you press down on your mouse wheel (center button), so you do not need to go to the Control Bar or the track header while you are editing.
Opened Cakewalk, thought, I need to copy this small chord progression to make a bit of a loop. Tried it, sounded rubbish - typed in "creative sauce audio edit" in Google, BANG, my man here again with exactly what I needed. Thank you.
That moment when you realise all the editing techniques you’ve been using are totally ham fisted. Lots of nice little procedures here to speed up and add finesse to the process. Thanks Mike, another really useful video.
Mike, one of the things that I really like about your content is that I feel like I'm looking over your shoulder as you provide instruction, recommendations, etc. Your content has been really helpful since I re-discovered Cakewalk by Bandlab a little over a year ago. Thanks!
THIS! This is the tutorial I didn't know I was waiting for. Not just one of the few Cakewalk teachers out there but also one of the top at teaching how to use your DAW in general.
@@emilyesnyman For sure! Cakewalk wise: Home Studio Simplified Your Home Recording But Mike is hard to beat. Mixing in general: Joe Gilder Produce Like a Pro with Warren Huart Musician on a Mission Recording Revolution with Graham Cochrane Songwriting: Mary Spender Paul Davids Signals Music Studio with Jake Lizzio Samurai Guitarist (woot woot for Canada) Music Theory and Analysis: Adam Neely Rick Beato (EVERYTHING actually, this man knows so much...) Ben Levin David Bennett Piano 12Tone I'll stop here not to overwhelm but these are some of the ones I follow the most though I'm sure I'm missing some. Wish we could group channels... I've got more for other stuff too (music lessons, gear heads for amps, guitars and pedals) half the channels I'm subscribed to are music related so let me know if you need more. Have fun going down this rabbit hole, I know I have :D
Hi Mike, I just want to let you know that I think your level of Cakewalk knowledge is amazing!! Even more important is the way you explain everything.. You are a superb digital teacher!! Thank you for you work!!
Hello Mike, Just to thank you!! Ihave been using cakewalk for years since Sonar8 (and payed lots of money down the road..). To me it was the daw that felt best to me. I am not a daily user so i learn it bit by bit. Since bandlab offers it for free and more people start using it the UA-cam-helpers are rising. Never was there really good support before. Recently i dicovered your channel and i learned more in the last 2 weeks than the years before. You made me like cakewalk even more. So keep up the good work, and again...Thanks!! Erik.
Great video. I've been using Cakewalk for over twenty-five years and have learned more from you in a month than from trying to understand the program's help files for decades. Thanks for that. I'm an avid user of Cakewalk but still learned something useful in each section of this video.
Excellent Mike, Ive learned soooo much in the last month or so from your videos about using my new Cakewalk DAW properly. Its saved me tearing my hair out trying to understand the 'how to'. many thanks.
Thanks Mike! few weeks ago I had no idea about recording and mixing at home, now - thanks to your videos - I am able to finally record good quality music and get the best out of mixing. looking forward to more videos. thank you
Mike, I can't begin to tell you how helpful your videos are. You have a great gift for explaining complicated stuff to audio simpletons like me, and you give a working procedure to achieve results I wasn't even aware of! THANK YOU!
Great video. I would love to see a video like this one where you talk about everything you left out. Something like pitch shifting, time stretching, reversing, syncing(warping). What are the options cakewalk have in terms of stretching and maintaining the original pitch of the audio. Best ways to go about it to avoid artifacts and all that. Great content as always.
I just recently discovered Your channel! As a long term Sonar/Cakewalk User I need to say: Thank You for Your tutorials. It saved me a look at the manual. Great job!
Man, been trying to find an easy way to remove pops from copy/pastes for a bit now.... Thank you so much for this tutorial!! So much fantastic info on this channel!
Thanks as always Mike. No matter what the subject, I always learn something new from your videos. Knowledge is a precious thing. What a wonderful gift to bring. Hey, that could be my next song!!! :)
Hi Mike, Just getting started with the DAW world, have settled on Cakewalk after a few false starts and your fantastic teaching skills are making it all possible. New subscriber!
honestly for me starting to use cakewalk I found it difficult maybe cause I'm new to the recording my self thing but this video made alot of difference ......much respect
You can also use the button by/to near the snap button, like this when you copy your clipn is stay in place , and not at the begining of the measure, it's better when you have an audio starting before the first time (sorry for my english)
This is what I was looking for early on when I simply wanted to preserve some of my acoustic songs. I would call this "essential basics" and link it to new user content. Thanks!
The simpler the better, I made use of the excellent Sound Forge program for this job, but this procedure greatly streamlines the task. Thank you so much Mike!
Cut, paste, copy, move and delete is about as basic but essential as it gets. Each command is so powerful by itself. but once you master all of them you can accomplish just about any task you want. I love that you're covering "the basics". There are multiple ways to perform each command so it doesn't get old learning new ways to do basic tasks.
Thank you so much for the lesson on eliminating pops and clicks at the joins!!! This is a problem I've been having for ages!! You explain things so clearly and patiently and target the common issues we all have that many other DAW tutorial folks simply and inexplicably never mention. And the icing on the cake is that you're doing all this in a DAW that I use. 👍
Much appreciated hands-on tutorial!! As a total Cakewalk noob I now know how to remove (and obfuscate) those nasty little clicks: AUTO CROSSFADE (using a clean pair of reading glasses. Dang, those pixels are tiny....).
For maintaining the position of a clip relative to the grid when drag-moving or drag-copying, you can choose "by" instead of "to" in the snap settings. That would allow you to select and drag-copy your first clip and have it align correctly.
love you content. If you are wanting to make a cut in the audio when you are using the smart tool, hold down alt on the keyboard while hovering over the audio clip and it brings up the cut tool feature.
Thank you very much for your clear and personable videos. I'm a 'senior' musician getting to grips with Cakewalk and your videos are of excellent help.
I set time apart now to watch your videos Mike... I've been on Sonar/Cake for twenty years. Self taught, it's good to see I've worked some things out correctly, but sometimes good to see a different route to the same result. But I have to say your video about several instruments installed into Kontact was an absolute game changer for me. Fantastic stuff mate, excellent content.
Hi Mike, great video again. Thank you! My two pennies worth: the option to do automatic crossfades can easily be toggled using the icon at the top right corner of the clips pane.
I'm new to music production and I've only just gotten started with cakewalk, and your videos have been so very helpful! it's like an entire beginners course completely for free. thank you for making this so accessible! I would have been so lost without these videos hahah
Great to see a new Cakewalk video from you Mike! Although I know some of this stuff, there is always a new tricks to learn. Thanks! I rarely use keyboard shortcuts and try to do everything with the mouse. I realize I should get acquainted with the keyboard more and save time. Maybe a video on the most useful keyboard shortcuts would be great?
Thanks, Mike, as always. I learned several new tricks. I noticed that when you wanted to adjust between two points on the clip control line you selected the two points first. If you press control and grab the line you don't need to select the points- it will be done automatically.
You can also select the 'move' tool in the control bar and then drag the middle portion up or down; it results in the same change; rather than selecting 'each end of the stick', you just move the stick.
Great Video Mike - total newbie to recording (been gigging for 30 years) big changes due to Covid so setting up a home studio. Bit late to the party but that's rock and roll.
with the waveform zoomed way in, you can see the click, where the waveforms clips do not meet at the exact same dB, you can go into the edit mode using free form, and you can actually write in a join that is smooth.
Really good stuff here... I thought I was doing to much when doing things like this but now I see that its ok to do all the fades and things like that... Thanks for the info ..🙏
Helpful as always. Always learn something new despite being a Cakewalk/Sonar user for many years. Glad to hear that clip gain now changes the waveform display - must update to get that feature.
As someone just a few months into home recording I really learn a lot from your videos 👍. There's always something to be gained from watching them. Great work 💪
Wow.... Im finally swapping over (to Cakewalk) from my older version of Cubase...(Cant reactivate my free copy). Found myself a bit at sea - and came looking to learn a few basics... Wish I had changed over sooner - learned a few new tricks Id never seen before already...You are a great teacher! Subbed
Very helpful video! I'm getting back into music production using Cakewalk Bandlab and this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Looking forward to checking out your other videos.
As usual, great material Mike! Since this was geared slightly toward newbies, it might be a tad confusing to them when you talk about "zero dB", since that's not how the meters are graduated. Probably a conversation for another day/video, but I remember way back trying to figure out why the meters were set up the way they are with negative values down to negative infinity. At the end of the day, for most of us it really doesn't matter as long as you know pushing the fader up/forward makes things louder :) All decibels are not created equally... Very nice, straightforward and practical advice for the cakewalk crowd. Keep up the outstanding effort! :)
Cheers , your info has progressed my ability to utilize all tools and my mixes have improved ten fold ...i find all your how to vids helpful 😎👍 keep the coming ,would love a t-shirt
Hey, CS. Thanks so much for this video. I was struggling to edit my longer songs in Audacity but you showed me how it makes more sense in CbB. Much easier!
Great little vid again Mike. I watched it thinking, I know all this already, right up until the point you did the volume automation thing at the end. Dead useful.
Great vid Mike. Always pick up a few “I did not know that” tips watching these. The holding control and shift and moving the clip up is class. After all these years it’s great to pick up little tips like that. Maybe a couple of things you could help me with with regards to editing. I watched the engineer do it lots of times when making my album and that was how to stretch a note and how to manually quantize and fix a guitar solo. He basically split the guitar solo audio into individual notes and even changed the pitch of certain notes. (Yeah I know, play the solo properly in the first place😁). Obviously that’s why I paid him a lot of money to do it but would be great to know just how he did it. If you know of course. 😁 Thanks again Mike, awesome stuff 🤘
Hi Scott - yes, I thought about covering that in the video, but it just felt slightly out of scope. It can be done with the audio snap tools. Will definitely make a video about that!
There is s quicker way to move gain between two points and not selecting all the time ...just go on to the top between the points and click that twice and poitnts will be selected ...thnx a lot for your tutorials
Thanks yet again. When I started using Reaper I found it much easier for editing audio. The way the slicing and splicing works is just I little different making it easier to fit parts of audio together. Well that is my experience anyhow. I generally use Cakewalk for editing MIDI and Reaper for audio and mixing. Thanks yet again Tony
Thanks alot Mike, this is a HUGE help when mixing sampled instruments (I do sampled orchestration, so I have ALOT of sampled instruments in the mix). Too much expression here, or not enough velocity there, or just hitting a round robin that just doesn't fit can make mixing (post freeze) quite tedious. With these tips (and @José Cobelas "ALT" split keybelow) saves a TON of time.
Thanks for the tips; very useful. Could you (or perhaps you already have) talk about creating templates in Cakewalk? For example, how to make and store your favorite drum setup with separate tracks, buses and compression bus, etc. Thanks!
I just printed out the Cakewalk "Shortcuts" and they're 22 pages. I need a report cover for them. *sigh* When I worked in Audacity, I used the 'amplitude' function to increase and decrease the dB of little segments. I had no idea I was doing what I was supposed to do. I kept looking for that functionality in Cakewalk, and couldn't figure it out, so thank you so much for this. And for the great explanation on what that click is before crossfading.
@@CreativeSauce Getting there! Still have to buy a piano-type/midi keyboard and a bass guitar. We might also build a small loft in the room to put in a drum kit of some kind. We're going a bit nuts with it, but what the hell...
Heya.. there's a quicker way to change your editing tools [Tools Module] . While you're hovering over you audio track press the middle button (the mouse wheel) and you will see the "Tools Module" pop up, (slightly opaque, so you can see the audio wave form underneath.. Then select the tool you want use it, and the "Tool Module" will disappear. this saves using the mouse, going up to the tool, and then back to the audio track.. I find this a really quick way to do this.
You're absolutely amazing. I am a beginner and I processed my lead vocal but i didn't edit my clip. So after compressing and doing all the works, everything sounded so much better. The vocal was now at the front without being too loud. However... I realised that my breaths were too prominent. I was unsure how to fix this as I did not want to edit them out completely. I also tried to use volume automation but this was very finicky as I had previously used it to manually reduce some sibilence. Cranking up the de-esser made my a little bit more vocal. The section from 19:20 helped me with this. I was wondering if the method you demonstrated at 19:20 could be also used to manually reduce the sibilence?
I wholeheartedly agree with Hassan! You are definitely my "go-to" guy for Cakewalk by Bandlab!! Profuse thanks!!
Always my pleasure John. Thanks
I always find something useful in your videos, even that are over the most basic topics! Keep up the good work, Mike.
Thank you!
Hey, Mike. Good work. A couple of things:
You do not need to select the Split Tool from the Tool menu. You just press "ALT", and while you do any other tool that you have selected changes momentarily to the Split Tool. ALT + click splits at cursor. If you ALT + drag select, you get splits at both sides of the selection.
If you right click over an audio clip you get a "Set Snap Offset to Now Time" option in the menu that appears. With that, you can get your clip to snap at the first transient (or wherever you want, actually), no matter where the clip starts, so you can create your fade in and don´t worry about your clip snapping correctly. This is very useful for clips with pickup notes, or swells that do not start at a transient.
About moving gain automation , with the Move tool selected you don´t need to actually select any nodes to move segments. Just hover over a part of the envelope and look at how the cursor shows one node, or a segment (two nodes). If you select several nodes, you´ll also get the possibility of moving the shape, and the cursor shows three nodes.
And remember that you get your tool box at your cursor, including the Edit Filter, when you press down on your mouse wheel (center button), so you do not need to go to the Control Bar or the track header while you are editing.
Thanks so much for these tips! One good thing about posting what I do, is that I get to learn from folks like you! Thank you :)
Opened Cakewalk, thought, I need to copy this small chord progression to make a bit of a loop. Tried it, sounded rubbish - typed in "creative sauce audio edit" in Google, BANG, my man here again with exactly what I needed. Thank you.
That moment when you realise all the editing techniques you’ve been using are totally ham fisted. Lots of nice little procedures here to speed up and add finesse to the process. Thanks Mike, another really useful video.
Mike, one of the things that I really like about your content is that I feel like I'm looking over your shoulder as you provide instruction, recommendations, etc. Your content has been really helpful since I re-discovered Cakewalk by Bandlab a little over a year ago. Thanks!
THIS! This is the tutorial I didn't know I was waiting for. Not just one of the few Cakewalk teachers out there but also one of the top at teaching how to use your DAW in general.
I'd have to agree though my knowledge is a tad limited.
Any other recommendations?
@@emilyesnyman For sure!
Cakewalk wise:
Home Studio Simplified
Your Home Recording
But Mike is hard to beat.
Mixing in general:
Joe Gilder
Produce Like a Pro with Warren Huart
Musician on a Mission
Recording Revolution with Graham Cochrane
Songwriting:
Mary Spender
Paul Davids
Signals Music Studio with Jake Lizzio
Samurai Guitarist (woot woot for Canada)
Music Theory and Analysis:
Adam Neely
Rick Beato (EVERYTHING actually, this man knows so much...)
Ben Levin
David Bennett Piano
12Tone
I'll stop here not to overwhelm but these are some of the ones I follow the most though I'm sure I'm missing some. Wish we could group channels...
I've got more for other stuff too (music lessons, gear heads for amps, guitars and pedals) half the channels I'm subscribed to are music related so let me know if you need more.
Have fun going down this rabbit hole, I know I have :D
Now...now I understand cross-fades! I never looked at them this close. Thank you!
I learn something everytime I watch one of these. My go to for all things Cakewalk.
Once again you have Wow'd me! That editing of a clip that is too loud is a life saver!
Hi Mike, I just want to let you know that I think your level of Cakewalk knowledge is amazing!! Even more important is the way you explain everything.. You are a superb digital teacher!! Thank you for you work!!
Thanks Mike - I've been using Cakewalk for about 20 years, but I still learn things from your excellent videos, so I have subscribed!
Hello Mike,
Just to thank you!! Ihave been using cakewalk for years since Sonar8 (and payed lots of money down the road..). To me it was the daw that felt best to me. I am not a daily user so i learn it bit by bit. Since bandlab offers it for free and more people start using it the UA-cam-helpers are rising. Never was there really good support before. Recently i dicovered your channel and i learned more in the last 2 weeks than the years before.
You made me like cakewalk even more. So keep up the good work, and again...Thanks!!
Erik.
Great video. I've been using Cakewalk for over twenty-five years and have learned more from you in a month than from trying to understand the program's help files for decades. Thanks for that. I'm an avid user of Cakewalk but still learned something useful in each section of this video.
You are a great teacher. I am a newbie that learned so much from your videos. Thank you very much Mike!
Excellent Mike, Ive learned soooo much in the last month or so from your videos about using my new Cakewalk DAW properly. Its saved me tearing my hair out trying to understand the 'how to'. many thanks.
Thanks Mike! few weeks ago I had no idea about recording and mixing at home, now - thanks to your videos - I am able to finally record good quality music and get the best out of mixing. looking forward to more videos. thank you
Mike, I can't begin to tell you how helpful your videos are. You have a great gift for explaining complicated stuff to audio simpletons like me, and you give a working procedure to achieve results I wasn't even aware of! THANK YOU!
Great video. I would love to see a video like this one where you talk about everything you left out. Something like pitch shifting, time stretching, reversing, syncing(warping). What are the options cakewalk have in terms of stretching and maintaining the original pitch of the audio. Best ways to go about it to avoid artifacts and all that. Great content as always.
I just recently discovered Your channel! As a long term Sonar/Cakewalk User I need to say: Thank You for Your tutorials. It saved me a look at the manual. Great job!
been using this software for years and yet I still learn something new with your videos, brilliant
Man, been trying to find an easy way to remove pops from copy/pastes for a bit now.... Thank you so much for this tutorial!! So much fantastic info on this channel!
Thanks as always Mike. No matter what the subject, I always learn something new from your videos. Knowledge is a precious thing. What a wonderful gift to bring. Hey, that could be my next song!!! :)
Hi Mike, Just getting started with the DAW world, have settled on Cakewalk after a few false starts and your fantastic teaching skills are making it all possible. New subscriber!
honestly for me starting to use cakewalk I found it difficult maybe cause I'm new to the recording my self thing but this video made alot of difference ......much respect
Thank you so much! I was struggling with the pops and cracks but with the crossfade method everything disapeared! Thank you!!!
You can also use the button by/to near the snap button, like this when you copy your clipn is stay in place , and not at the begining of the measure, it's better when you have an audio starting before the first time (sorry for my english)
This is what I was looking for early on when I simply wanted to preserve some of my acoustic songs. I would call this "essential basics" and link it to new user content. Thanks!
The simpler the better, I made use of the excellent Sound Forge program for this job, but this procedure greatly streamlines the task. Thank you so much Mike!
This is one of my favourite channels on youtube. Incredibly helpful
I'm using Cakewalk and your videos are very helpful. Thank you!
Cut, paste, copy, move and delete is about as basic but essential as it gets. Each command is so powerful by itself. but once you master all of them you can accomplish just about any task you want. I love that you're covering "the basics". There are multiple ways to perform each command so it doesn't get old learning new ways to do basic tasks.
Thank you so much for the lesson on eliminating pops and clicks at the joins!!! This is a problem I've been having for ages!! You explain things so clearly and patiently and target the common issues we all have that many other DAW tutorial folks simply and inexplicably never mention. And the icing on the cake is that you're doing all this in a DAW that I use. 👍
Thank you so much. You teach beautifully. This and your other videos on cakewalk will really help me. I feel indebted. Hope it's peaceful around you.
Much appreciated hands-on tutorial!! As a total Cakewalk noob I now know how to remove (and obfuscate) those nasty little clicks: AUTO CROSSFADE (using a clean pair of reading glasses. Dang, those pixels are tiny....).
Great presentation! I've used Cakewalk for many years, and still learn a lot from your videos. Thanks!
For maintaining the position of a clip relative to the grid when drag-moving or drag-copying, you can choose "by" instead of "to" in the snap settings. That would allow you to select and drag-copy your first clip and have it align correctly.
Whow, that gain automation trick is gold.
love you content. If you are wanting to make a cut in the audio when you are using the smart tool, hold down alt on the keyboard while hovering over the audio clip and it brings up the cut tool feature.
Thanks!
Thank you very much for your clear and personable videos. I'm a 'senior' musician getting to grips with Cakewalk and your videos are of excellent help.
I set time apart now to watch your videos Mike... I've been on Sonar/Cake for twenty years. Self taught, it's good to see I've worked some things out correctly, but sometimes good to see a different route to the same result. But I have to say your video about several instruments installed into Kontact was an absolute game changer for me. Fantastic stuff mate, excellent content.
I ve been following you for a while now, and your contents are really helpful. Thank you!
Hi Mike, great video again. Thank you!
My two pennies worth: the option to do automatic crossfades can easily be toggled using the icon at the top right corner of the clips pane.
That last bit will save me from fiddling with a compressor for nothing. Thanks!
This, as with all of your Cakewalk tutorials, is fantastic! Thanks Mike. I have learned so much about this software from you.
I'm new to music production and I've only just gotten started with cakewalk, and your videos have been so very helpful! it's like an entire beginners course completely for free. thank you for making this so accessible! I would have been so lost without these videos hahah
Great to see a new Cakewalk video from you Mike! Although I know some of this stuff, there is always a new tricks to learn. Thanks! I rarely use keyboard shortcuts and try to do everything with the mouse. I realize I should get acquainted with the keyboard more and save time. Maybe a video on the most useful keyboard shortcuts would be great?
Mike, this has been great! I have been using Cakewalk for quite a while now and the new and existing shortcut you have outlined will help heaps!
Awesome, thank you!
The best cakewalk tutorial for track editing. Subscribed!
Thanks, Mike, as always. I learned several new tricks.
I noticed that when you wanted to adjust between two points on the clip control line you selected the two points first. If you press control and grab the line you don't need to select the points- it will be done automatically.
You can also select the 'move' tool in the control bar and then drag the middle portion up or down; it results in the same change; rather than selecting 'each end of the stick', you just move the stick.
@@barryseymourmusic That's what I said.
Great Video Mike - total newbie to recording (been gigging for 30 years) big changes due to Covid so setting up a home studio. Bit late to the party but that's rock and roll.
Amazing!!! this saved my track! Greatly appreciated 🙏
with the waveform zoomed way in, you can see the click, where the waveforms clips do not meet at the exact same dB, you can go into the edit mode using free form, and you can actually write in a join that is smooth.
Hi I am a new one in using cakewalk, but your videos are amazing. Keep great job mate.
Really good stuff here... I thought I was doing to much when doing things like this but now I see that its ok to do all the fades and things like that... Thanks for the info ..🙏
Yup, do what it takes until it sounds good man!
Brilliant presentation. Thank you so much for the time you spend making these tutorials.
Helpful as always. Always learn something new despite being a Cakewalk/Sonar user for many years. Glad to hear that clip gain now changes the waveform display - must update to get that feature.
Thanks Mike, I always pick up a couple of new tricks from each of these uploads, best wishes, Neville
As someone just a few months into home recording I really learn a lot from your videos 👍. There's always something to be gained from watching them. Great work 💪
Mike I just loved the song you used for the demo - you must produce it - I predict it becoming an all time hit
Wow.... Im finally swapping over (to Cakewalk) from my older version of Cubase...(Cant reactivate my free copy). Found myself a bit at sea - and came looking to learn a few basics... Wish I had changed over sooner - learned a few new tricks Id never seen before already...You are a great teacher! Subbed
Very helpful video! I'm getting back into music production using Cakewalk Bandlab and this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Looking forward to checking out your other videos.
And again some new things learned that I can incorporate in my future audio projects, thanks!
you are a master and cakewalk is power , ty for this video
Great stuff, thanks. As am amateur, nice to see how a pro does it.
As usual, great material Mike! Since this was geared slightly toward newbies, it might be a tad confusing to them when you talk about "zero dB", since that's not how the meters are graduated. Probably a conversation for another day/video, but I remember way back trying to figure out why the meters were set up the way they are with negative values down to negative infinity. At the end of the day, for most of us it really doesn't matter as long as you know pushing the fader up/forward makes things louder :) All decibels are not created equally... Very nice, straightforward and practical advice for the cakewalk crowd. Keep up the outstanding effort! :)
Good point, thank you!
Cheers , your info has progressed my ability to utilize all tools and my mixes have improved ten fold ...i find all your how to vids helpful 😎👍 keep the coming ,would love a t-shirt
Another great and helpful video. Can't get enough of these Cakewalk tutorials which really help amateurs like me :)
Hey, CS. Thanks so much for this video. I was struggling to edit my longer songs in Audacity but you showed me how it makes more sense in CbB. Much easier!
Your Cakewalk series is amazing, please keep em coming... great content. Thank You!
You are fantastic to provide this helpful video. Thank you so much!
Just what I needed! Greetings from Brazil!
Great little vid again Mike. I watched it thinking, I know all this already, right up until the point you did the volume automation thing at the end. Dead useful.
Absolutely a big fan of all your videos, I am learning so much so quickly without being confused due to your amazing attention to detail 👌
Great vid Mike. Always pick up a few “I did not know that” tips watching these.
The holding control and shift and moving the clip up is class. After all these years it’s great to pick up little tips like that.
Maybe a couple of things you could help me with with regards to editing.
I watched the engineer do it lots of times when making my album and that was how to stretch a note and how to manually quantize and fix a guitar solo. He basically split the guitar solo audio into individual notes and even changed the pitch of certain notes. (Yeah I know, play the solo properly in the first place😁).
Obviously that’s why I paid him a lot of money to do it but would be great to know just how he did it. If you know of course. 😁
Thanks again Mike, awesome stuff 🤘
Hi Scott - yes, I thought about covering that in the video, but it just felt slightly out of scope. It can be done with the audio snap tools. Will definitely make a video about that!
There is s quicker way to move gain between two points and not selecting all the time ...just go on to the top between the points and click that twice and poitnts will be selected ...thnx a lot for your tutorials
Thanks yet again. When I started using Reaper I found it much easier for editing audio. The way the slicing and splicing works is just I little different making it easier to fit parts of audio together. Well that is my experience anyhow. I generally use Cakewalk for editing MIDI and Reaper for audio and mixing. Thanks yet again Tony
I really liked the fade in fade out feature.
Thanks alot Mike, this is a HUGE help when mixing sampled instruments (I do sampled orchestration, so I have ALOT of sampled instruments in the mix). Too much expression here, or not enough velocity there, or just hitting a round robin that just doesn't fit can make mixing (post freeze) quite tedious. With these tips (and @José Cobelas "ALT" split keybelow) saves a TON of time.
you are a legend sir. You are helping me so much!
❤ So very helpful!!! I'm a beginner. Thank you!!!
Awesome video. I'm new to cake walk, you were very clear! Many thanks.
Thanks for the tips; very useful. Could you (or perhaps you already have) talk about creating templates in Cakewalk? For example, how to make and store your favorite drum setup with separate tracks, buses and compression bus, etc. Thanks!
This is perfect.. I am transferring from pro tools first thanks to your channel :)
Another excellent video - thanks Mike!
Thank you very much. It´s was really usefull. Muchas gracias!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching :)
well done. Love to see vid on comping tool with multiple tracks (ie drums). Always find that tangly.
Great videos. Learning a lot!!! Thank tou very much!
Thank you!
I just printed out the Cakewalk "Shortcuts" and they're 22 pages. I need a report cover for them. *sigh*
When I worked in Audacity, I used the 'amplitude' function to increase and decrease the dB of little segments. I had no idea I was doing what I was supposed to do. I kept looking for that functionality in Cakewalk, and couldn't figure it out, so thank you so much for this. And for the great explanation on what that click is before crossfading.
Glad it was helpful. Hope you can start using all your new gear soon!
@@CreativeSauce Getting there! Still have to buy a piano-type/midi keyboard and a bass guitar. We might also build a small loft in the room to put in a drum kit of some kind. We're going a bit nuts with it, but what the hell...
Mike's tutorial stats thus far:
3 for 3!
Dude, this is VERY GOOD.
This is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G- !!!!! Thanks so much for everything you do!!!!!
This is BRILLIANT Thank you!!!
My pleasure:)
Heya.. there's a quicker way to change your editing tools [Tools Module] . While you're hovering over you audio track press the middle button (the mouse wheel) and you will see the "Tools Module" pop up, (slightly opaque, so you can see the audio wave form underneath.. Then select the tool you want use it, and the "Tool Module" will disappear. this saves using the mouse, going up to the tool, and then back to the audio track.. I find this a really quick way to do this.
Great job on this video, Love it!
Fantastic. This is really well done. Thank you!
Just brilliant Mike. Thanks mate this is going to help me heaps
Simply Brilliant.
You're absolutely amazing.
I am a beginner and I processed my lead vocal but i didn't edit my clip. So after compressing and doing all the works, everything sounded so much better. The vocal was now at the front without being too loud. However... I realised that my breaths were too prominent.
I was unsure how to fix this as I did not want to edit them out completely. I also tried to use volume automation but this was very finicky as I had previously used it to manually reduce some sibilence. Cranking up the de-esser made my a little bit more vocal.
The section from 19:20 helped me with this.
I was wondering if the method you demonstrated at 19:20 could be also used to manually reduce the sibilence?