How to Use Cakewalk by Bandlab Part 1

hey what is up guys belong on Sears today in this family giving you guys an entire tutorial you can't go home and lab so this is actually a two-part series tomorrow the second part isn't be coming out so the first four on Thursday is second part on Friday we're going back-to-back days cuz I really want to be as thorough as possible I want to give you guys as much value as possible so that's what we're doing today I'm gonna be going through literally everything let's get into it whoa so let me first show you how to install plugins into cakewalk okay so the main idea with getting plugins into cakewalk if you want to have one specific folder or you keep all your plugins so for example this is my folder it's in Program Files slash cakewalk slash vsts I made that folder myself it's an arbitrary folder that I chose to use and then what you got to do is when you install your DLL file your dot DLL into that folder P in your keyboard go to VST settings and then click this little Add button here you can actually look through these little folders here and you want to find the folder that has all your vsts in it and then when you find it push ok here and it's going to add that folder to your directory of plugins and then after you have your folders your VST scan paths like all listed up here then push scan here and it's gonna scan through all the folders that you've listed up here and it's gonna find your plugins and make them available to you in the plug-in window over here so now I'm gonna show you a link to a sampler you think that I think you should use and mas gonna link you to my favorite free plugins then I'm probably going to be mentioning throughout the course of this video the main idea about getting plugins is that you want to expand your directory of sounds you have four available so for example I'm going to open up expand right now it's a pretty budget plug-in I got it when it was like five dollars on sale but how you add a plug-in track in is it plus sign here then go to the instrument tab out of these two tabs change your instrument from MIDI only to just click on the rectangle and then you can search through here to find the plugins you want to use so go to uncatted your eyes and then scroll down a bit and you find expand too so you're only gonna find plugins so you've already downloaded but since I have expand here I can use it now that you have your sound selected hit all three on your keyboard and it's gonna open up the MIDI window then hit shift D on your keyboard to make it full screen now many people will get confused during this section because there's not really any like guidelines that they don't really know to follow so they're just kind of like mindlessly placing notes and it doesn't really sound good together so I want to recommend something to you that you don't necessarily have to use but if you want to have your sounds in key then you can use it so I want you to find this little sidebar here I'd be closed off to you so you can hit this little expand button here and then you'll see a little bit bigger here then take this side arrow and drag it to the side and then right click on the name expand to hover over scales and select harmonic harmonic minor scales I choose the harmonic minor scales because that sounds best to my opinion for trap beats then right click on your thing again and then click enable disable snap to scale now that we're doing MIDI I want to talk to you about the tools T on your keyboard you open up the smart tools section and you have the option between the smart tool the selector tool the move tool the edit tool the draw tool and the erase tool I'm gonna show you what the draw tool does a little bit later in the video but for right now since we're only doing the MIDI of the melodies let's set the teener keyboard and use the smart tool so now what I do is I'm gonna place a note imma choose on a C because that's the root note of the scale and maybe that'd be kinda nice then what I recommend is bring this out to a full measure so it's an entire measure long and we're gonna be making chords around these notes so now we're gonna go to the ruler bar up here that's doing the time measures and select over from 5 to 1 and then hit shift L on your keyboard to make a loop or and make the outline of what the chord progression is gonna be but we're not gonna be trying to think of anything too complicated weird should be kind of making a melody let's play melody it sounds like this C B G C and let's make this a bit longer and then D so that's a little melody I made right here let me kind of explain things because I kind of wrap brush past couple things if you want to make a note shorter or longer select on the end of the note and drag around and that's assuming you're using the smart tool if you want to move a note click on it and drag Tori want to be if you want to cut it in half hold alt on your keyboard and click where you want to cut and I think that's everything you need to know with MIDI [Music] that's pretty simple not so now to make some basic chords out of these I want you to click on the root note I want you to skip one black note play the next black note skip one black note play the next black note in my black notes I mean the ones that aren't being whited out by the snap to scale feature now now click on the root note and then do the same thing for this one skip one place one skip one place one now they do the same for this one click on the root note skip one place one skip one place one that's pretty nice so now what I recommend you do is I recommend on some of these notes try to add like a seventh or ninth and if you don't know what that is basically I'll explain it to you cuz I'm the root node record and play notes way up here this I'm good with the chord so maybe let's try B that's better so the reason I keep telling you to click on the runo is because it actually makes it so that if you click on this note your note the note you next place is gonna be that long but if you click on this note which is shorter you know it's gonna be that long so I think I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have a long note by clicking on one of these and then I'm playing here so it sounds like this and then I was like I was listening to Melanie I like to have this g-sharp here but these two notes writing to each other sound very dissonant so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to select that note by right-clicking on my keyboard and dragging over the note and then deleting your keyboard so now so now let's make it sound a little bit better by holding ctrl and right-click dragging over the root notes of these chords in this case actually this g-sharp way up here is actually the root note of chord because if you bring it down by an octave which you're allowed to do with chords you have the place notes skip one place one skip one place one so this G sharp is technically the root note of the chord so we're just to keep it way up there but remember that that one is the root note and now what I want you to do is hold ctrl while you drag your notes down exactly by an octave but that means is we started on the C and we brought it down to a c2 now sounds like this [Music] so now what I usually do all email you something to go to up to process transpose and I'm gonna go transpose by let's say 2 or 3 up we're just trying to get a different idea trying to like just to change up the melody so that sounds a little bit different [Music] hey see what that just did was it just moved all the notes up couple steps so that it just sounds a little bit higher I'm gonna show you kind of a cool effect to hit this plus sign here go to audio track and then just leave this on none and push create hit after keyword so everything's bigger again and now what I want you to do is I want to go like this done we're gonna have some likes well kind of sounds in here this is gonna be a little bit more complicated you're not gonna wanna do this on every song but I kind of want to give you some more interesting ideas of how to make melodies so we're gonna do is we're going to drag this right side all the way down to 5 so that is it exactly 4 bar salute and then go up to process retrograde and then push freeze right here this is called free synth and what free scence does is it transposes the entire MIDI track into audio now shorten this down to exactly 5 and then hold ctrl and drag your audio track down to this track now fresh the freeze button again so that your stuff turns into MIDI then click on your MIDI track go to process retrograde then including your audio track alone and then go to apply effect reverse now's the Sun to what it sounds like [Music] now listen to only the reverse thing alone [Music] we can make this sound even better by hitting T on our keyboard clicking on our R edit tool and then clicking everywhere that it has a change of chord and then hit tune your keyboard your smart tool out select your entire thing and then drag this little top left corner towards the right and that's going to give you a fade in kind of sound and then just to make it sound a little bit been a nicer we're gonna go from the top-right of the notes and ragga dangerous to the tiny bit I did a couple tiny adjustments and we listened together [Music] now click on your keyboard and it's gonna bring open this little sidebar here to when you have the sidebar open click on the track that has all the reverse stuff and turn that down because we don't want it super loud but that is your way of mixing your sounds you can click on a track and then turn up or down click on another track and it changes there if you all tutor keyboard it's also gonna bring up your console view if you hit shift D it makes a full screen and you can kind of see this is your first track this is the reverse audio track this is your master track where all of your sound comes out of so now that we have some nice chords going on let's add a top melody hit all three to open up the MIDI View and then go up to this right side and open up this little thing so you can see all your MIDI tracks make sure you're on the track that you want to be using it has your MIDI sound sounds like this and now it's added top melody [Music] [Applause] okay so it kind of breezed through that but what I recommend is you just kind of go by ear doper ear just try to play notes in the sound right it's not really a huge strategy to it just start placing notes down make sure they fade and the kind of the key make sure they sound right make sure they sound like they fit and you'll be fine now I'm gonna change the sound actually because I don't really like the sound but that's the thing like I don't necessarily think that you should always find like the perfect sound before we get started I just choose a random sound and then make your melody and then change the sound so [Music] so I want to first speed it up so how you how I recommend you speed it up is drag this thing to left so that your audio of clip is the entire length then go up here and change is 120 to maybe 140 that might work and then since this is now not in this right timing anymore get your smart tool out whole can shift and ctrl and drag from the right to exactly the five bar mark so it's all synced up again now I also want to transpose up a little bit so I must like the entire thing go to process transpose and let's go to like transpose up for and then change elastic pro to radius mix advanced because it sounds more accurate when you're using audio so now I want to add some effects to this how do you do that well you can add effects individually each sound or you can add them as a heck of a whole group you can send all of your sounds to one bus and then effect them together that's what I'm gonna do here so what you want to do is click on your first sound go down here to the very bottom left where it says a master and change master to new stereo bus it's gonna make abouts called bus D plus D as you can see there come in your next track and make it go from master to bus D and then check on your last track it may go from master to bus D so now all of your sounds are in bus D and you can anything you put on here are going to affect all three of them together so you're not gonna have this fighting right away but it's called crystallizer [Music] okay so you add plugins by going to this right section you open up these little folders chain just drag a plugin across and this is what melody sounds like right now it's actually a little bit fast actually so I'm gonna change it to 135 and then we'll slow this audio track down actually I think about I want to put you down too [Music] I must going to add a plug-in called complete control and inside a complete control I'm going to use a vocal chop [Music] okay so I just finished up that melody here and it sounds pretty cool right here what I'd recommend to get something this quality is that you just keep practicing keep practicing keep practicing it's not your vsts that are the problems just the fact that you haven't had enough experience to make melodies like this but I also recommend that when you when you think that you're done for the melody because you just want to be done with the Melanie one move on to the drums don't rush it don't rush it just keep going maybe you can add one more thing that will really tie your entire melody together to make it as good as you possibly be so I'm Molly it's pretty good I could have added more to it but I really want to show you guys everything there is to offer and can't go home and nap so if you like this video the like button subscribe button sit the subscribe button because tomorrow's but it was actually about the same exact topic and I continued offer are left off and it's gonna be just good sent you for that one [Music] [Music]

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Length: 18min 53sec (1133 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 11 2020

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