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Post by JohnG on Mar 11, 2009 16:52:06 GMT
Tutorial deleted and moved to owners own web site.
JohnG. 6th July 2011
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Post by jacqui01 on Mar 11, 2009 19:23:26 GMT
Hello John Had a try with your tutorial today, I am using Cakewalk Home Studio 2002, well I say using I've not really been using it at all as I never knew how  , but I found your tutorial very easy to follow, so I look forward to more very soon, having the pictures certainly helps, my track view window does look slightly different, but not so much I would not be able to follow yours. A couple of things I wanted to know: Is there a set order that you do edits with a midi file for example: Transpose first, Change Instruments, tempo after, or does it not matter, and when do you save with each edit you do? Hope you'll be showing us how to raise or lower one particular Instrument, as well as mute it very soon. Thanks Jacqui |
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Post by simmo123 on Mar 11, 2009 22:13:21 GMT
 Hi John,what a genious you are to come up with the special section for editing midis etc i wish you had been around when i first started to dabble with my first cakewalk programme & in the end i gave it up in frustration after having nowhere to go for assistance in fact it took me a year to find out how to get an audio track to activate,i found that the manual was just to hard to follow,also my once bushy crop of hair on top diminished very rapidly during this dark period of my life,in fact since joining the forum i have become motivated again & have been able to progress (with the help of your members like yourself, Jazzcat & many others) who gave me invaluable advice on various aspects of cakewalk which had baffled me for years.I am still very basic in my knowledge but i am learning more all the time so yes lets have the special section on midi editing & especially putting the seperate pages of the programme up it just makes it so much easier to follow for slow learners like myself,i am sure many members will be getting involved.Just a comment on your transposing section you have just put on which is great i thought i might mention that when you have made your first transpose & altered the box which changes the key up or down in semitones ie, up four semitones,if you go to make another key change immediately after ( in the event of it not being suitable) you will find that the alteration you have just made ie, up four semitones will still be shown on the box, you will need to take it back to zero before entering another key change,this had me stumped for ages before i worked it out,please correct me if i am wrong John because i would not want to give any wrong info plus i may have been doing it the wrong way as well.kind regards from the ole fella downunder,Simmo,Ps John the latest from S/Cell is that i can now edit all of instrument changes using the editor programme & save all of the changes as well ;D ;D i am one happy vegemite as we say down here.
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Post by JohnG on Mar 12, 2009 7:59:44 GMT
Hi Jacqui and Terry,
Yes, further tutorials are planned. The one to scale velocities is on its way actually Jacqui, and for Terry (alias Simmo) a long awaited tutorial on how to assign instruments for the SonicCell is really (at last) on its way.
As you probably know I have been involved in another assignment which has taken all my energy, and a certain amount of time, so have had my eye off the ball.
Jacqui, what I tend to do is to instrument assignments first and when I am pleased with that save. Then I might make changes to levels next to get the balance right, then save. Might do tempo next, then save. Then Susanne would try singing to it and maybe decide it needs transposing slightly. Do the transposition and save.
My strategy for saving is as follows. Original file = "FileName.mid". Load into e.g. CWPA9 and save as immediately as FileName00.mid. Do 1st edit then save as FileName01.mid, then do the next change and save as FileName02.mid and so on. This means that if I mess something up I can always go back one generation and have access to the last good version.
IMO it is very important to have a good strategy here. It seems long winded until you do something that messes the file up completely and you find you have to go all the way back to square one and apply all the previous edits again. Believe me I went there in the early days and there is nothing more discouraging! You just have to get used to doing "save as" instead of "save".
When I work on a file I also tend to keep it in a temporary (work in progress) directory. Then, at the end, when I am happy with the result, I rename the good file and move it to the performance directory, and then delete all the old temporary files.
Hope that helps?
JohnG.
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Post by JohnG on Mar 12, 2009 8:05:54 GMT
Oh, and regarding the semitone movement Terry, quite right.
To me, as an ex programmer, that is intuitive, but I guess not to others, so I will add a little bit to the tutorial above. Thanks for mentioning it.
Best regards,
JohnG.
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Post by steveb on Mar 13, 2009 6:35:05 GMT
I am looking forward to this section John, it's all very well explained and easy to understand, the scaled velocities will be very interesting.
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, but I found your tutorial very easy to follow, so I look forward to more very soon, having the pictures certainly helps, my track view window does look slightly different, but not so much I would not be able to follow yours.
Hi John,what a genious you are to come up with the special section for editing midis etc i wish you had been around when i first started to dabble with my first cakewalk programme & in the end i gave it up in frustration after having nowhere to go for assistance in fact it took me a year to find out how to get an audio track to activate,i found that the manual was just to hard to follow,also my once bushy crop of hair on top diminished very rapidly during this dark period of my life,in fact since joining the forum i have become motivated again & have been able to progress (with the help of your members like yourself, Jazzcat & many others) who gave me invaluable advice on various aspects of cakewalk which had baffled me for years.I am still very basic in my knowledge but i am learning more all the time so yes lets have the special section on midi editing & especially putting the seperate pages of the programme up it just makes it so much easier to follow for slow learners like myself,i am sure many members will be getting involved.Just a comment on your transposing section you have just put on which is great i thought i might mention that when you have made your first transpose & altered the box which changes the key up or down in semitones ie, up four semitones,if you go to make another key change immediately after ( in the event of it not being suitable) you will find that the alteration you have just made ie, up four semitones will still be shown on the box, you will need to take it back to zero before entering another key change,this had me stumped for ages before i worked it out,please correct me if i am wrong John because i would not want to give any wrong info plus i may have been doing it the wrong way as well.kind regards from the ole fella downunder,Simmo,Ps John the latest from S/Cell is that i can now edit all of instrument changes using the editor programme & save all of the changes as well ;D ;D i am one happy vegemite as we say down here.