If you don't have a midi keyboard, simply right-click on the midi track pane (see picture) and under 'view', select 'piano roll'. To do so, just follow along with the 'recording audio' instructions, but replace microphone and audio with midi keyboard and midi, respectively. If you are lucky and have a midi keyboard, now would be a fantastic time to use it.

It looks very complicated, I know! You don't need to touch that right now, so just close that window. When the dialogue box appears, select the 'Instrument' tab, and press create. The record button The track paneĬlick add track. Click the highlighted arrows to expand the track. Now, sing your voice out! Have fun making your first Cakewalk project! After arming your tracks, hit 'R' on your computer keyboard OR press the big red record button a the top of the screen (see picture) to start recording. Note you must hit record enable before recording. This means that when you hit the record button, the tracks armed for recoding will be the only ones recorded. Click the record enable button (see picture) to 'arm' your track for recording. Under the 'audio' tab, select you preferred audio recording device in the drop-down list (including your computer's built-in mic) and hit create. Recording audio Add track buttonĪfter opening a new project, click on the add track button, which is marked by a plus sign (see 'add track button' picture).

Cakewalk will create an empty project for you now!

Make sure you are on the 'New Project' tab, and then click 'Empty Project'.

What's the point of music software if you're not going to make music? Let's start a new project in Cakewalk.Īfter starting up Cakewalk, you will be taken to the start screen, which will look something like the picture on the right. It is an orange icon with white rectangles on it (image not available due to copyright issues). You need to know how to start up Cakewalk!īy default, when you install Cakewalk, it will place an icon on your desktop.

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