Welcome to your music software lessons
My name is Eilish San and today we're starting
this section taking a look at the DAW with which
I started using music software: Cakewalk
What is a DAW?
DAW or D. A. W. is the acronym for
Digital Audio Workstation
Digital Audio Workstation
It is a software that turns your computer
into a multitrack recording studio,
where you can record and edit audio and MIDI
I started working with Cakewalk
in version 6, in the late 90's
and later switched to Cakewalk 9
in the early 2000s
Later I migrated to Cakewalk Sonar X1
and then to X3, although at the same time
I used other different software as needed,
but we will see it in successive videos
I want to show you Cakewalk first because it is
with the most accumulated experience I have,
so I can use it as a comparative
with other pieces of software later
The complete Cakewalk's workstation nowadays
is called Cakewalk Sonar Platinum,
and it is software that has many options,
but let's look at the most basic ones
so you can see how it works,
as well as its quality
When you open the program, the first thing it does
is to explore your VSTs or virtual instruments
and offer to create new projects
from various templates, open existing
projects or watch video tutorials
We are going to create a project
using the basic template
We are going to call it Test and leave all
parameters as they come by default
Although you see that from the beginning
you can change the tempo and the time signature,
you can do this after creating the project,
and even insert changes of tempo,
time and key signatures throughout the project
Using this basic template the appearance
will be similar to that of other DAW and to
the older versions of Cakewalk
On the left we have the parameters of
the selected track, you see that if we change
tracks the window changes
We can hide the windows with the double arrow
Below we have the console or mixer
where we can modify the volume and panning
of each input and output track
We also hide it to work
more comfortably
On the right the help module,
which at first if you work with Cakewalk
it can be usefull
Basically tells you when clicking on an option
what it does
And above we have the browser for media,
plugins and synthes, where you can organize the plugins
or search for audio files to insert into the project
After hiding everything, we have the
central window where are the tracks
with which we are going to work
In Cakewalk Sonar Platinum we have
three different track types
Audio, where we will record audio from an
external source like a microphone or a guitar
MIDI, where we will import or create
music in MIDI and use with a
General MIDI sound
And finally Instrument, which are similar
to the MIDI ones, but using a VST or virtual instrument
If you want to compose and create quality music,
it is very important to have good virtual instruments,
unless you already have real quality instruments
and you are going to record everything in audio
But if you are a lone person
creating all the instruments,
as I have done myself many times,
and you do not play all the instruments necessary
for your compositions, with a virtual instrument
of good quality you just need to know
how to write music scores to create quality music
If you have a MIDI instrument that you know how to play,
such as a keyboard that you can connect via MIDI
to your sound card, you can also record
your music in MIDI and then assign
the instrument you want
Cakewalk comes by default with the Roland TTS-1,
where you can choose an instrument
for each different MIDI channel
You can listen to each instrument
before deciding what sound you want
You can also do it later
at any time by double clicking
the piano icon on the left
of the track name
I currently use audio tracks to
record voice and instrument tracks to create
any other instrument
If you just want to work on MIDI
to write your compositions,
export them to MIDI and send them to
your band members, the best option
is to use plain MIDI tracks
Before you start working with Sonar,
it is important to check the inputs
and outputs for audio and MIDI
For that we go to Edition, Preferences
Make sure you have the inputs
and outputs that you are going to use activated
You can also change the audio driver
you want to use
Also check the MIDI devices
in case you want to use a
MIDI keyboard as input
In Cakewalk Sonar Platinum
you can add multiple folders of virtual instruments
where the DAW searches and uses the plugins
Now we are going to record some audio so you can
check the sound quality
We will use as sound card
a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 version 2
and as microphone a Studio Projects C1 Mk2
To record simply select
from where we want to record, we set the track
by clicking on the record button of the track
and we will record by clicking on the
general record button or using the R key
Test Phrase with Cakewalk Sonar Platinum
We export it to WAV, which is an audio standard,
so that you hear the final result of the recording
And the result without further
processing is as follows
Test Phrase with Cakewalk Sonar Platinum
Of course to this can be added
a noise gate, a compressor, a reverb
and any effects that you want
Now let's see how editing works in MIDI
In the Windows menu we can open
the MIDI editors, let's see first
the piano roll
You see that the new window opens below
next to the console, in a new tab,
and we have a double window, the upper one
with the piano roll itself,
and the lower one where we can see the MIDI
parameters like velocity, modulation or tremolo
In piano roll we simply write
the notes as blocks at the height of the note
on the piano key corresponding to the left
The longer the block, the longer the note duration
Let's see the step sequencer
You can put the number of beats
you want to sequence, the number of steps per beat
and the overall duration of the beats
For example, in this case, the 4 beats
are 4 crotchets (quarter notes), but if we set them
to 2 the beats will last half automatically
Finally we will see the staff window
If you have seen the course of musical reading
you can imagine the enormous advantage of knowing
how to read and write scores when creating
your songs in MIDI using this window
Important points to know about this window
First, the distribution can be changed
You can select the clef
from the ones we saw in the clefs video
The treble is Sol (G),
the bass is Fa (F),
the treble/bass is the double staff
of Sol (G) and Fa (F) for piano,
Alto and Tenor are the two Do (C) clefs we saw,
octavated treble and bass are the clefs
Sol (G) and Fa (F) octavated
and the Percussion is the Neutral clef
You can also show the tablature
in case you use them or it may be useful
to a band member who does not know how to read
the score so that they learn their part of the song
You can write the notes according to the
measure that you have selected at the top
directly on the staff,
and adjust the values completely to measure
by right clicking on the note
Finally you can save the project directly
to a MIDI standard, which is one of the
easiest and fastest ways to send
your composition to a band mate,
for example if you compose
together as a band
It's something I did myself for years
with several of the bands I had been in
and it's amazing how fast and well
you can compose this way
The resulting MIDI files
weigh no more than a few kilobytes,
so you can send them by email
and your mates will receive them almost instantly
You see that there are two MIDI formats,
I advise you to use MIDI 1,
since MIDI 0 stores all the information
in a single track, while MIDI 1
stores the information of each track separately
Finally we will see some of the
additional options that we can find
in the upper right side
In Loop we can create a zone to listen
repeatedly, you can enter the values
of the beginning and ending measures or simply
select them and create the loop zone directly
In Selection we can select a fragment
of the composition as desired, it is usually
faster to do it directly with the mouse
at the top of the tracks window,
but sometimes if we want to make a more
precise selection this can come handy
In Punch we can make a punch selection,
to record exclusively in an area,
saving the data from before and
after the punch zone
And finally in Markers we can create
markers or navigate between them
For example, we can create a Start marker,
another of Verse 1, Bridge 1, Chorus 1, Verse 2,
instrumental part ... whatever you want to add
The use of markers is very useful since
it allows you to go quickly from one place to another
and select a complete area,
for example the whole of Verse 1
This can serve, for example,
to copy it immediately after Chorus 1
and rename it Verse 2,
then if the verses have any difference
you can work on the copy of Verse 1
instead of having to write it
completely from scratch
So far we've seen
the basics of Cakewalk Sonar Platinum,
any doubt or thing that you want to share
remember to leave it in the comments
I hope that you like this video, that you find it useful
and I'll see you in the next video
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