5 MORE Cakewalk Secrets You Should Know! #3 

I've been using cakewalk for over 25 years and I still learn stuff every time I watch your videos. Just want to say Thank you

Been using Cakewalk since the beginning. I did NOT know about that last tip. Good stuff!

Jaw literally dropped with the custom default tip. Holy crap.

That "total recall" stuff is a great time-saver. And yes, I do like this tips&secrets videos. Thanks!

I saw the three entries in the menu soooo many times, but it never clicked for me! So thanks a lot for that last tip, I didn't know that!

The click track helped me out alot ! I kept recording through my headphones the clicking sound while recording vocals. Thank u for this Information 🙌

Not only did I (over quarter century Cakewalk veteran) not know about the separate Snap-to possibility, it explains what I thought was buggy behavior! Never occurred to me that the inspector would store its own Snap-to value distinct from the track's. Thanks, Mike!

Started with CW Sonar 8.1 I did not know the last tip!

I'm a "seasoned Cakewalk user" (and I follow you in the Facebook group!), but I didn't know about the "Set Snap-To=Current" option. Very cool, thanks!

Undo and Redo Zoom... now how could I have missed that? Thanks as always for filling in the holes in my brain.

Brilliant again - the double default setting was a new thing.

Great tips Mike.

Man, I learn something new every time I watch these vids. Love them. I found and joined the FB page just last week.

That last one is a game changer for me!!! I love to set my faders down to -6dB by default and play from there; this will make mixing much easier! Thanks!

Hi Mike! 😊 I’m a conductor, who uses DAWs to make mockups of orchestral works as a kind of rehearsal “lab”. I’ve watched a whole load of your videos overnight and had my mind blown! I was a really happy paid up Sonar user before it went away, and in the interim, I switched to Logic grudgingly, missing many Sonar features, but I got by. I had NO idea that Sonar was back as a FREE DAW and I although I was about to buy a Mac Studio Ultra to run Logic, I’ve totally stopped in my tracks. I LOVE the way Cakewalk is now handling tempo tracks, time signatures and above all, articulation sets. Wow! I was going to upgrade my Mac hardware to the max (or to the Ultra, actually) to allow me to use lots of midi tracks without the dreaded Logic overloads. I would love to switch to Cakewalk but have a few questions: I routinely have 100 midi tracks or more with spitfire orchestral instruments and a dozen or so audio tracks with vocals, but I only end up using so many tracks because Logic doesn’t make articulation changes plainly visible on the track, so that I end up adding a track for every articulation! What you’ve shown on your channel, is that Cakewalk makes changes of articulation beautifully visible on the track as a layer, so that I wouldn’t need to work with a track per articulation anymore and could use much fewer tracks. So, my questions: To run, say, 100 tracks of midi with orchestral samples, would I need a mega CPU like the Intel 12900K or could I run that much on my Surface Studio 2 with 32 GB of RAM? Also does Cakewalk work well enough with touch to use it for recording automation or would I still need to use my monogram control surface? Finally, do you do paid consultations?Thank you SO much for all the information and your lovely way of interacting with your subscribers, one of which I became after the second video!

Idea for fixing the click track: record your click track, reverse the phase, and then match it up with the bleed. It should phase-cancel out.

Thanks again Mike! Also big thanks for fb group! There is so much information and also emotion, when members even tell about their sorrows and troubles (not in music or CW).

Thank you, your videos are always so helpful and I always love your dad jokes xD

Another great set of tips Mike. I may be wrong, but I don't remember you doing a video about Cakewalk's inbuilt arpeggiator. How about it?

This video is the mut's nuts man...an absolute thing of outstanding natural beauty!!!...Love it!

Really helpful and useful video. Thank you!

Just when I thought I was getting to be a Cakewalk expert, you prove me wrong! Haha! Thanks Mike for the tips! And no, I didn't know about the double snap to values!

Great secrets! Didn't know even the "simple" version of the snap-to :-)

Hello Mike! Great video again. Thank you!

Great video, Mike!

Wow! Great stuff! Thanks!!

Great stuff as always. Thanks.

I'm just starting my adventure with cakewalk. you are my mentor :)

Awesome tips!! Thanks

Great tips

Some great tips there Mike - I can see the zoom and fader / pot setting ones being particularly useful. Looking forward to the next five!

I'd like to know how to remember all these great tips! I'd walls full of sticky notes!

Hi Mike, I hope you’re well. Great video as usual. I’ve learned a lot from you sir. Keep up the tricks and tips series!

Wonderful set of tips! I can see places in my projects where they will be really useful, especially setting different values for faders and other controls. Keep the tips coming… 😊

The double snap-to trick is really cool, my favorite Cakewalk secret yet!

Hi, Mike! Man, I really love your videos. I've been using Cakewalk for quite a few years now, nevertheless you never cease to show me stuff I didn't know. May I suggest a tip for your next 5 tips video, which took me years to find out bout, but changed my life once I did? It's the Envelope / Offset button in the Mix Module. I always did my automations as a last thing before I knew that (or even avoided doing it, when possible), because adjusting the track volume was a real pain once automation was set. Finding out about that was a life changer. It may help a lot of new users, who, as I did, may still be avoiding automation or using bus tracks to do so preserving the volume knob capabilities. As always, thank you for the great content!

Didn't know any of them. All the tips are very useful. Thanks Mike.

Cheers Mike - helpful as ever.

Great tips...keep them coming CS!

GREAT mike, but I knew all of this tricks ;)) Thanks

As everybody, just loved #5. I guess that everyone will use it now! Thanks a lot.

Cheers again Mike for the the tips. Plenty of Ahah! moments and "Why didn't I know that " moments. 👍

Great work you are doing for us Mike, thank you very much!

Brilliant! Thanks for these great tips!

Great

Great stuff again. Really enjoy your channel, as i learn heaps. Thankyou

Great information, thats all vewry usefull, thanks Mike

Howdy - LOVE your numerous videos that help folks with Sonar/Cakewalk. With regard to collaboration/sharing of projects. I do a lot of this, working with remote musicians, and many/most do not have the same plugins I have (I am primarily a keyboard player, whereas the other musicians are most likely to be guitarists, bassists, drummers, or vocalists). Anyways, most of the time, the other musicians are going to add one or more tracks of their instrument, to then add into the 'main/primary/master' version of a given project. and since the project will be uploaded/downloaded to share, I found that I can save a LOT of time transmitting the project to, for example, a guitar player, by creating an audio export of the project, as a Cakewalk project bounced to a single stereo track, OR a small number of stereo tracks for each group of instruments (that way they can do basic blending to taste prior to adding their track(s) and sending back the project. I then simply copy/paste their track(s) into the main/primary/master version of the project. Doing things this way, for the folks I work with, makes it SUPER fast to transmit projects, where the transmitted project size is extremely small, particularly welcomed by folks working on the project with less than ideal internet bandwidth speed. Just a thought.

seasoned - didn't know that last tip

Ok...this is already my favorite series. I know it is a difficult one, but am interested in everything related to cakewalk workflow. So,i created a new list for these "secrets"...

Thanks for the tips! The undo Zoom mousebutton shortcut saved me from not using Cakewalk forever because Cakewalk sometimes interpreted some of my Timebar hold-left-mousebutton clicks as a doubleclick even though I have my mouse settings in Windows 10 set up properly.

Awesome futures.. 👍👌👌

Great video Mike. A topic for your future "Cakewalk Secrets": Is it an automatic background recording functionality in Cakewalk, like the "dump score log" in FL studio, that can save our ideas when we forgot to hit record...?

Great video, love the zoom feature which I'd never seen before. I've had some issues with sharing via bundle's, particularly with older versions of Sonar, and different audio bit depth. I'll give it another go, and make sure we synchronise our settings BEFORE we start ....

GREAT MIKE AGAIN!!! You are a wizard and I am fascinated by the quality of your amazing and CLEAR videos. Bandlab should appoint you as Official Cakewalk Instructor !!! Modestly, I think I am quite expert on Cakewalk, I have been using it since 1998 ..... BUT YOU WON THE BET ON THE LAST TIP !!! :) What a shame!!! Dear Mike, I only have a doubt about the first TIP .... Is there by any chance a mistake in the video at 1:58? I cannot see any difference in video after you say BANG! Is that so, or am I not seeing what has changed? The contents of the clips seem identical to me as before. Thanks again for your magic help!

Thank you so much for your hard work! I love it! Cakewalk is by far my favorite DAW. It’s true it’s more complicated than the other ones, but that’s cause it’s built in a more analog way of thinking and it gives you more freedom. And I got to understand it thanks to you! I’m really upset that it doesn’t work in Mac. It forces me to use other DAWs because of that even though this one is my favorite

I didn't know about that last one.

Hi Mike, loved the video! Quick question: why do your tracks have green bars with numbers to the left of them? I don't have that in mine I wonder what they are?

Great Tips.. I have a question.. I used to go to the "Now Slider" and if I push "Return To Home" once it would go to the beginning. If I pushed it twice it would go to the beginning of my "Loop Setting". Now it does not do that. Have I turned off this feature some how?

did not know about setting defaults on the TrackView Channel Strip and the Console View Channel Strip for two defaults to work with.. I've also noticed, that when you hide tracks in the Track View, they are NOT hidden in the Console View. that function is independent for each of those VIEWS.. took a while.. there's no way, I know, to hide/show tracks in both TrackView and Console View at the same time..

Mike...question... I jumped ship when it looked like Cakewalk was going under...and now feel I can use Studio One much better, own a faderport, etc, etc. Of course I still have Cakewalk on the computer, but other than the GUI, it seems "out of date"... but do you have a basis to compare? I had a GUI where I swapped out the .png files...fader knobs, meters, etc. It looked much better and at the time, wasn't happy trying to like the Studio One interface... but now I like it. Is Cakewalk as deep as it was, JUST before they where purchased by Bandlab?

what's the usefulness of a click track versus just using the builtin metronome?

Hey!

Could you do a video on how you have the different instruments of the drum set in different tracks? I'm a drummer who uses an electronic drumkit with Addictive Drums 2 and would like to know how to record it in stems like yours so I can send them off. Thanks!

Hey.. Is there away to clip gain individual clips... not gain on channel rack.. without fx?

Hey Mike, great stuff! I wonder if you can help… I would like my midi clips to snap to the start of a measure and it seems like I have to always slide them over a bit. Thanks!

should vocals be recorded into the daw below the 18bd mark?

I use Cakewalk with an M-Audio Hammer 88 Pro thru the Mackie interface. I want my VST instrument property windows to open when I select them from the controller. Is there a way to do that?

How to connect external editor to bandlab? I have sound Forge 9. After select audio clip and choose from menu sf9 a sf9 run and nothing, no clip to edit

Question on the bundling. After the last update my current projects had loads of random pops and clicks, audio drop outs etc. Getting to the mixing stage I got so frustrated that out of nothing but desperation I exported all of the tracks and reimported the project anew. The Pops and Clicks miraculously were all gone as were the dropouts. Unfortunately I was committed to the panning, midi sounds and amp sims and effects, which wasn't a deal breaker as I was used to printing guitar effects in my adat days. Oddly though even though I numbered and named each track none of this info was in the imported tracks. Does the Bundling keep the original notes and track naming?

Hello sir can't we freeze our sends .

Thank you for not calling it “Cakewalk by Bandlab”

I use Cakewalk with an M-Audio Hammer 88 Pro thru the Mackie interface. I want my VST instrument property windows to open when I select them from the controller. Is there a way to do that?