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Free Vst Instruments

LoopAZoid 48 channel, 64 voice stereo drum sampler What they say: With LoopAZoid, you get an easy to use and powerful tool for playing one-shot samples in your songs. One instance holds up to 48 different samples, which can be freely assigned to up to 96 different MIDI notes – two each, for forward & […]

Using Staff View

To edit or write midi data we need to bring up the staff view screen. Hold the ‘ALT’ key and press ‘7’ You should now see this screen. Look at the interface at the top of the new screen. You can enter notes by highlighting the pencil option and clicking on the staff. You can […]

Shortcuts

Shortcuts can save an awful time and help eliminate reliance on the mouse, especially when in the middle of recording. When Recording: Press ‘R’  to start ‘Space  Bar’ to stop When  listening: ‘Space Bar’ to play ‘Space  Bar’ to stop Menu Shortcuts: To view ‘Synth Rack’ – Hold ‘Alt’ key and press ‘8′ To view […]

Overwrite track when recording.

Overwrite track when recording. When recording you may have noticed that re-recording your 1st take the 2nd take just layers itself over the previous take. We can change this. – ‘Transport’ – ‘Record Options’ The default option as you can see is ‘Sound on Sound’ Change the option to ‘Overwrite’ Unfortunately you will have to […]

How to add Vst Instrument

How to Add ‘Vst’ Instrument – ‘Insert’ – ‘Soft Synth’ As you can see there is now a list of instruments now available. I will now add ‘Cakewalk TTS-1’ To set up Synth please read ‘Synth Setup’ – in Vst Instruments section To set up Midi please read ‘Midi and Vst Instrument Setup’ – in […]