Another easy way to seperate the drums is to mute all other drums than the ones you want to play (e.g. leave only kicks playing) then bounce the MIDI track to an audio track. Do this for all of the drums, then you have a kit all on different audio tracks ready for mixing ;)
It is good to see someone making tutorials for cakewalk. I was a longtime. Sonar user and this is by far the beat free DAW in existence and still is competitive ( minus the bundled content) with commercial DAWs.
Hi Mike. If you use Session Drummer 3- which has separate outputs, but you don't like the sounds available you just go to the mixer and right-click on the icon of a drum you want to replace. You can use "load" to load up sounds from any other drum program or one-shots you have. Just navigate to where the other kit is stored, and find "library" and choose what you want.
Cakewalk use to be called Sonar before Bandlab purchased and developed the software. It came with Session Drummer 3. Each drum had its own output and it had a mixer. There were several kits to choose from. It also had a vast midi loop library. These drum kits were great and I am still trying to figure out why Bandlab kept the si drums and got rid of Session drummer because Session Drummer is so much better. I think if enough people make a feature request they will bring it back. I made one already. and a final note, you can cut a clip simply by holding down the alt key and clicking the mouse button. This is much faster than switching tools. Once again, Another awesome video! Keep them coming and I will watch it!
@@arnyarny77 In my opinion Cakewalk is easier to use than Reaper. Although I will say I think Reaper is a good platform too. Cakewalk has a synth rack that allows you to add or remove software synths easily. You can also do it through the browser button. There are plenty of Videos on RU-vid that explain it and mike has some of the best Cakewalk videos out there.
You're my cakewalk God! I downloaded Cakewalk... then was lost in the world of trials of this daw and that daw- then you came along and I'm cakewalking away here! Love it! Thank you, professor Mike!
Fantastic tutorials mate, I'm just a bedroom guitarist who wanted to record some covers (guitar only) - I'm now about £500 into midi controllers, mics and interfaces and I'm addicted to your videos! Very much appreciated 👍 Your getting me through this lockdown, who knows I may even have something original recorded by the end 😂 I"LL cut you 1% of any royalties 🤘
Haha! Thanks so much Scott. Its money well spent, on something positive and creative! I'm very happy for the sub, I'm sure you deserve all the royalties :)
You are an absolute legend, Sir. Your videos are so clear and instructive. As a beginner at using DAWs I am finding them really helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to make these. Subscribed!
Completely new to all of this. Mostly just got into it to make my own background music for a RU-vid show my buddies and I are doing. Even just trying to figure out how to handle the drums has been immensely frustrating. This tutorial cleared up pretty much every problem I've been having so far. Nailed it, my good man.
Brilliant, thankyou for your clear instructions. This is my first time in over 20 years, using midi/digital platforms. Cakewalk is a brilliant platform but with so many buttons and options I was extremely confused. Looking forward to creating music and beats!!
was planning to only watch 10 mins while eating breakfast, and then got hooked until the end cos tutorial was just pretty detailed and neatly explained. Thx man
I've just recently started using cakewalk, so this was extremely helpful, especially since I'm a drummer! Now I've just got to work on the vocal part for my original songs! Thank you for sharing this incredibly informative tutorial!
I think this is a great intro primer. I have other commercial resources. There are several options for lowcost drums with multiple outputs, but genres like hip-hop and EDM often rely on custom drums and and drum layering. It will take a little more work,, but a free sampler like TX16WX. A form of sampler is essential to many pop genres and not just for looping. You can build powerful custom drum kits . For genres like Hip-hop you won't need to create complicated articulations. For a trap producer, one could download popular sttuggle drum packs like TM88 free kit and have your basic kick, snare, hh , 808 and clap.
With the help of this video, now i can finally have drums in separate tracks! And i also learned how to have TTS-1's instruments on separate Midi-Channels. Thank you very much! :)
@@Tom-hg9lw After you have added TTS-1, make a Midi-Track and select TTS-1 as the output for the channel. After this you can select which ever Midi-Channel as the source. You can select both of these on the left side in the Midi-Track options. The Midi-channel option is below the FX-section.
@@sirnuutia Ok I know what you mean. This is necessary if you make a new empty projekt, add a TTS-1 and then import a midi file. But if you close the projekt and go to Data/Open and select a midi file (instead of a project file), then every track will automaticly assignt for you. And if you dont have any midi output devices set up in the preferece (dont check Microsoft GS wavetable), TTS will be loadet automaticly as well.
You do not need to Bounce to Clip after recording passes, you can just unfold the lane tracks clicking the icon at the bottom left of the track header. This way you have each instrument in its own clip, which might be convenient in some cases. Regarding the Step Sequencer, an important feature is that you can add probability practically to every control parameter. If you then drag the clip to a cell in the Matrix view and play it looped, you can record again its output to your instrument track and automatically generate and record multiple variations of your beat or phrase, for as long you keep the cell looping.
Victor Tadashi At the bottom left of the track header there are two small buttons. One unfolds the automation lanes, and the other the takes lanes. Each recording pass adds a take, but you see them all stacked one on top of the other, unless you unfold the lanes. You might need to make the header larger to include all buttons. If you have it too narrow it will show just the basic controls. Anyway, you should read the manual to learn the basic controls and features.
Firstly a big thanks for your tutorials, I have always been interested in music production but been put off by the expense of full featured daws and bored quickly by the limitations of previous free daws I had tried. Cakewalk is amazing for free, unbelievable and thanks to your video series its hasnt been to daunting to use. I have been following through with you on each video in cakewalk and everything has been flawless up to now, I am following your steps exactly yet for some reason when using your downloaded drum maps I cant get sound with DrumPro64 and MT Drummer, yet everything works perfectly with Cakewalks SI Drums. I have repeated your steps three times now and keep having the exact same results. I would love to sort this out as particularly MT drummer having the ability to send kicks and snares to individual channels in the mix for free would be indispensable, appreciate your videos as they finally gave me a reason to stop using my lack of finances as an excuse to not making music. well done sir.
Good stuff here. Having recently retired, I'm looking to just learn new stuff I've never had the time for before. Videos like this are great. MIDI looks to be the next learning curve. 😁
What amazes me is, the way you retained that (even just for example) groove, separating it into playing hats and snare/kick in different time, but you got it altogether because you had it in mind already. Salute.
I am new to Cakewalk and I am finding your tutorials very helpful. I like your teaching style and you make the material easy to understand. Keep them coming.
Thank you so much for making these tutorial videos and providing links. I am just starting out with cakewalk, and these are extremely helpful, and I appreciate the way you made these easy to follow!
Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video Mike. I enjoy your style of teaching which is very thorough and full of character. I can now apply what I've learned here to the SSDSampler5 by Steve Slate, and if that works, I'll spring for the full version.
Great video thanks. I really appreciate how detailed you guide through the process also explaining each single click you made - so it is easy to reproduce. Also I like your articulation which is very helpful for non-native speakers.
At 7:53 you can actually adjust the velocities on the note itself in the piano roll. Just left-click and hold over the note, then dragging up or down adjusts the velocity. It’s a bit quicker if you’re doing multiple adjustments.
Brilliant! I’m so glad I found your videos. You include all types of consideration for other music types, but I’m a rock, blues, pop musician and have the same philosophy as you (such as playing midi drums throughout the track for the human touch) and your videos (I’m subscribed!) are so useful, and to the point. No waste and gets me at the level I’m at with such useful information. Thank you so much. I could have saved so much time if I’d found your videos earlier. Already using tips from you!
thanks for the tutorial mate, it helped me a lot, I'm using Ezdrummer 2 plugin since like 2 months and didn't figure out how to use it properly within my Sonar until this tutorial, thanks so much
Thankyou very much for sharing... i love all your videos... Please keep making more cakewalk tutorials ( i have seen almost all the videos in your channel about Cakewalk, but i need more because i am a new cakewalk user...) God Bless you - keep it up... (I olso love the way you theach by the way...)
Hi, your tutorials are really helpful thanks. For years I've just messed with Sonar etc as no one has explained it quite like you or focused just on what is now Cakewalk. I'll be back. Thanks Steve
Hey Mike, Great video. I don't know if Session Drummer comes with the Cakewalk version. I was a Sonar Platinum user, and it came with that version. If the base software bundle includes Session Drummer, it does allow you to separate each of the parts onto their own tracks. I would recommend selecting a track folder, and mono outputs. Then you have to select a different MIDI channel for each part. Addictive Drums came with the Platinum version, and that's the plugin that I use. I don't have to select the MIDI channels, and there are more velocity samples, so just changing the velocity makes it sound a little more natural. They you have a separate track for each drum piece. By the way, I do use the step sequencer for all of my programming, primarily in a rock/pop genre. I use the Flam feature to create ghost notes and rolls. For some reason, some of the controls don't have any effect, like the swing control and the offset control. So if I want to 'humanize' the drums, I have to go to the piano roll view and move notes individually. I can randomize whether note plays, by using the probability feature in the drop-down. It's effective if used sparingly, but jarring if you try to make it too random. Anyway, perhaps another video showing folks how to use some of these advanced features would be a good subject. Thanks.
Hi Nigel. Alas, Session Drummer doesn't come with CbB, but SI Drums does. Yes, a great topic for another video for sure :) Thanks for watching, and for this info :)
you can have an multi output in cakewalk by the window "insert soft options" disable simple instrument track and enable "all synth audio outputs stereo" then all the individual toms ect. spit up
Thanks for another great Cakewalk video mike. I now feel like I am starting to get somewhere with Cakewalk. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and keeping it clear and simple for us beginners.
Hi Mike, big thanks for your tutorials. I'm quite new to the world of DAWs, I've had a look at Reaper and Pro Tools First but Cakewalk seems much more accessible and user friendly. Can't believe it's free. You'll be getting a cut out of my first record deal lol.
Hi Mike - not an easy solution but I have used Hydrogen Drums - a program with Windows Linux and Mac options and composed drum tracks for export as wav files. You can export each drum separately, or by muting certain instruments and exporting you can export say kick and snare to one wav, hats to another and so on. Plenty of kit options including Latin and you can make your own kits using wav samples e/g/ a Joe Meek style loose floorboard as a kick. I have also used it for triggering instrument hits, bass and brass lines and voice samples prior to import into Audacity but equally it could be used for import into Cakewalk.
This was very helpful i am trying to become an artist and i have been at a stump with decent daws. Your cakewalk tutorials have made it very easy to use and understand the program.
Don't know of other free drums with separate outputs but I have separated midi drums into multiple tracks to mix in dynamics and pans. Took a sec but the end result was actually really decent real-er sounding drums.
Great video, you touched on a lot of tiny details no one ever usually mentions. Like around 10:45, I had no idea why my list was so squashed, even after clicking the magnifying glass. You mentioned it, and as it turns out I am just blind and there is another one to zoom in vertically. Incredibly helpful, thank you.
Lots of info in this video. Both theoretical and practical. Wonderful! Thanks for this video, the kind of mixed info that really helps to move forward. Even if the concept of "drum map" remains to be clarified... dark stuff.
Been using Cakewalk for about 2 months now. I can't play the drums to save my life but I can hear the beats in my head. I write Progressive Rock/Metal riffs and songs. I just want to learn how to make decent drum tracks for my projects that I need drums in.
Great video - good info! Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this but I highly suggest Sitala, which is free, for multi-output functionality. It has an excellent set of built-in effects such as compression, tone, shape and tuning. Best of all, it allows you to insert your own drum samples into any of 16 available slots, all of which can routed to separate tracks. Just go to settings, then "Audio Output" -> "16 Channel Output (One Channel Per Pad)". Thanks for the good information, esp. about drum mapping.
Hey Mike! I just wanna say thank you so much for this video. Definitely you've helped me with this one. I initially hesitated to spend my 32 min, but damn...this is a blessing (specifically the last step)! Thank you, more power and keep being awesome!
@@thegamingzone5963 yes great i am still learning piano basics chords scales etc i will one day make some vreative stuff i did some some.but haven't posted till i get better one day cheers brother for your comments.
I like this video so much, I hit "like" three times. Seriously though, I'm new to Cakewalk and have found your videos extremely helpful. You've got yourself another subscriber. Thank you!
Hi Pablo - they are really just there to make life a little easier. The usual piano role view has information which is not useful (like note duration), and its hard to know where each drum is. Drum maps dont show note duration (not needed), and you can set them up to only include the 'notes' (drums) needed, and in in any order, with drum names, rather than piano keys.
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Really helpful video mate! I've been banging my head against the wall trying to use my Roland V-Drums (TD-12K) as a MIDI controller in Cakewalk via a USB MIDI interface, it's still not working BUT at least it's now showing up as an input so I must be close! Thanks again for the clear informative videos, great work!
Thanks for the tutorial - I'm just getting into Cakewalk and it's a HUGE help! Not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but Independence Free sampler may be able to route the channels like you describe here. I'm just getting into that rabbit hole, too! Cheers!
Thanks again for your great work! Basically I have some old band WAV .... So a stereo full band recording that I want to import to CAKEWALK and sync it to the timing and then quantize it. This will make it possible to add midi to it! I might be out to lunch on this but it would be a neat thing to be able to do! Thanks Dave
Yes, I've done it with some guitar tracks that I didn't want to play to a click with, then I arranged the whole some around it. It's a little fiddly, but works.
Great Video ! Well done and thanks for sharing this tutorial. Very helpful and a lot of useful tips !!!! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and skills ...
Someone please tell me if this question has already been answered but, here it is: Once I load the MT PowerDrumKit Drum Map, I lose the sound to the audio track. I figured out that I had to either double click on each drum in the map and set the Out Port to the audio track, or in Preferences/Drum Map Manager set the Out Port to each drum patch there. Since this can be tedious every time I use a drum map, there must be a setting somewhere to have this done automatically. The reason I believe this is because it happens on other drum maps as well. Someone point me in the right direction. (Technically not a question, but oh well) Thanks!
Hi Mike, I'm really enjoying your whole range of Cakewalk tutorials! Just one question on this one: what is the advantage of creating an instrument with "MIDI source" and "first synth audio output" selected, instead of creating a "simple instrument track"? In this video you say it's important to do the former, but you don't really explain why. Thanks so much!
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Hi Mike, after two years in VST collection hell, last weekend got a couple of songs in a local Game production and one thing leads to another so no refreshing DAW for new music. So here I am.
