Live Loops - Except it's Cakewalk Matrix View!

hey cakewalk users I have a really awesome demonstration for you so I need you first to go and take a look at a YouTube video that is it's called live loops digging and composing on-the-fly with logic pros new flagship feature so this is a brand new Pro and new feature in logic but what I'm here to tell you is this is a feature that is already featured in cakewalk okay so it's accessible with matrix view now this is I just have a new you know I opened a new file so what I want to demonstrate is that you have this really awesome tool that's gonna help you bring in loops and you can bring an audio and you can bring in MIDI and you can make it everything I mean it's just it's pretty fantastic logic was right to incorporate this but it's not new I'm using professional which cakewalk sonar professional which was cakewalk back I bought it in 2015 so anyhow I bought it yes but you have it for free and it's there on your you know in your and your list of features it's there as your as your you know one of one of the things that you have to work with alright so if you notice you have a bunch of a bunch of different stuff you have a piano roll matrix staff and I'll show you staff this really cool thing that I've used before let's bring in mmm Shalini loops alright so anyhow so what I'm gonna do is bring in so I wanted to show that we have so this is this is an old sample library that I've had from the year 2000 so this isn't anything that is like oh you know all these things are optimized no this is non-optimized this is way old right so let's go to Bongo right here ok so you remember the amazing Apache or the incredible Apache sorry the incredible Bongo band Apache right so they had the the Bongo break right so anyhow so so Bongo is gonna be a different tempo than this break beat which is a drum and bass okay so those two are different so now Bongo we're gonna pull it in it's going to be it's gonna match the tempo okay so then how do we know that then we know because well so we can have Bongo and break go on so what I did was in the middle of having Bongo play I played break but I it didn't start playing until the measure repeated so check this out so I'm gonna click here and I'll tell you when I click break click it kind of works like an MPC so that's really cool that's like a really cool feature so here's another thing to let me go ahead and delete these tracks I don't need them and actually I'm not gonna pull it into I'm gonna make an audio track of my own right and so if we notice the grid let's view the vertical gridlines in front of clips alright so here we've got the the gridlines right so we know where where the measures are so I'm gonna take this Bongo and I'm gonna pull it and boom look it fits the grid perfectly right so when we play it [Music] okay so then same thing with break right so let's do audio track and then boom so it fits perfectly right so I'm I'm snap to grid and it's going you know so and if I wanted to make them for blah blah blah right so I can and what's cool about that too is that you can actually use your effects so if I wanted to you know if I wanted EQ you know then I could go in and just run you know so I can add EQ I can add delays I you know all the stuff that I have you can do that okay so then you know and if you're within the cakewalk you know if you just have the cakewalk stuff well that's alright you can go in and so cakewalk here you know you can use all the sonnet is stuff you can use channel tools and then I believe you still have the the Nomad factory these the blue tubes Nomad factory stuff so anyhow so you have those okay so let's talk about MIDI alright so there's a couple of different options that you can do with MIDI you can do oh and also to sorry before we do MIDI you can actually if you can trigger off of any kind of MIDI controller okay so if you have like say for instance a a keyboard controller or a keyboard pad like the a Akai pads Novation makes them and you know there's there's a couple of other you these all work the same so once you have them installed and you're able to trigger you know your plate you can play your since you can you can learn so if you do a MIDI learn and then you hit a key on your keyboard the next time that you hit that key then you're able to actually trigger that sample so beware because if you are playing a synth on a different channel or you have a track that's what got us in token you wanted to hit that note it will trigger that sample because it's learned it you have to clear it however the cool part is is that if you want to sort of like anytime that you hit that while you're doing a performance it'll work for you so you know take that creatively as you will okay so the other thing you know and and so say for instance ah I'll just take one step further sorry so I'll MIDI learned this one on another on another key so I just hit the key so then I'm gonna trigger one and then trigger the other ones but I'm use the keyboard rather than the mouse right and I turned them off I turn the triggers off right and you can do it it's a either a loop or you can do it as a one shot go straight across loop right and so and then when it's when this is when it's highlighted that means it's it's going off of whatever the global setting is and so if it's if you unhighlight it it then if you've unhighlight it then obviously you know so you have a trigger resolution right so if you don't want it to start on the next measure you want to start on on the eighth then so trigger resolution follow global right so it's going to go off of like the 8th or the measure or whatever so right now we had it on measure so right now it's gonna follow global which means it's going to go on the 8th so I'm going to trigger them check this out [Music] okay so it's always going to be in time you could do it immediate alright so then it'll you'll see how it's off okay and then let's see so this is a actually let's I think this is a REIT rigger and then this is latch mode alright so check this out so what I did was I made it to where it's gonna not necessarily so if you have it latch it'll play the whole loop if you hold it I was holding the note down and then able to play it kind of like a performance but it's still going along with the tempo so you know so that's cool so then okay so cell start play from now versus okay so now we're going to start it in the middle of the street rigor so this is going to go back to the to the beginning so one-shot trigger trigger a resolution okay so then follow okay and that's going to be immediate so let's see all right so okay so what we did there was I was just illustrating that you can kind of take out too you can kind of take off the where it goes in time and you're sort of like playing stuff sort of you know out of time which is which would be useful if say for instance you wanted to kind of make it a little bit more of like you wanted to make it a little bit more of like nuanced rather than sort of like staying on the grid you wanted to kind of come off the grid a little bit okay so anyhow so that's how you can just sort of demonstrating some of the things you could do with your MIDI controller okay so then we'll talk about the actual MIDI files so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pull an instrument and and this will be a drum my drum program so I actually bought the program I don't know why the thing won't authorize but it doesn't give me any problems so I'm not really gonna worry about it so let's see I did let's see let's do I like this okay pretty dry and pretty nice okay so then let's go to these just I'm taking these like MIDI groove clips that don't they they're not mapped to addictive drums they're mapped to cake walks original sound sources so I just like the way to dictate drum sound and I paid for them so okay so then let's do the drums it's not going to sound like the drums watch so let's do just some pop things so we're going to do pop here so anyway yes so that would go see you can essentially have your MIDI triggered by you know by the by the matrix and then it'll go and you know do the so let's let's look at what that what that MIDI file looks like so essentially you know you have it so you have your bass drum I wonder if that's supposed to be a snare so let's move these or snare sorry so let's go let's move these two so let's see if this is what it's supposed to sound like okay it's probably because it's let's turn this down a little bit I'm just trying to get a context as to what's that's supposed to sound like alright alright that's what it sounds like anyway okay so then alright it's like a polka anyway okay so it didn't it did so this actually let's do clear and let's see if this comes all right so the significance of that is what I did is I changed the MIDI so you can create a MIDI file here pull it here and then now you've got a trigger bull MIDI file or a trigger you know and you can do this with synths you can do let's say let's go to um some scales right okay so let's pull in just a synth [Music] let's do okay and then see so let's pull and it's this meet no minor pentatonic all right here we go so then well that's great okay so let's see what's oh it's because I have this solo right all right that sounds fun huh but anyways so you get the you get the point of it though is that you can pull in a MIDI file and you can pull it you know and and if you have a synth then everything sort of aligns and again you can trigger it to your MIDI cut keyboard and then you have okay and then you can also pull in a so if you have a an audio file or say you record something with your you know you record something a keyboard thing or your you know your your distorted guitar or you have a sample or whatever you can pull that in let's see if I have anything no let's go oh you know what I have drops where are my drops no drops no drops no drops okay so shyah shyah shyah whatever alright so obviously let's see if we can trigger a resolution okay so it's still gonna follow the kind of don't want this to follow the because it gets affected somehow because of the let's see if we drop the tempo okay check this out alright may need to figure out how that gets oh you know what let's see let's do okay okay alright so let's see if that gets affected yeah it still does alright anyways I have to figure that out but what we we have is you can essentially record something right you know pretend that that's like a recording that you did and you can pull that in it will be affected by tempo so I figure if you're performing it to tempo then it shouldn't realign it it should be okay so that you know so then if it realigns it you can kick it back out okay so let's do that now notice the difference in files so let's undo that right so you have obviously this this Shia is much different than the Shia haha okay anyhow so that's yeah so those are some features within you know so if you look at the you know you look at live loops you know they've got all these different features right so one of the things is is that you can have all the this row play then this row plane you can call you could just trigger in from down here so the same thing happens here okay so then same thing you can play all of these you can line them up in a row and yeah you can mix because these all once you pull them in they'll have their own little you know so Row one so let's take Row one right so so you can pull that let's do so then you can affect it so the same way same same thing you can pull in your you know any of your what we're looking at yeah let's do oh I had it on the different layout that's right so you can use your eq's and your effects and all the other stuff on that so if we you know [Music] hittin a spacebar to stop it okay so essentially yeah you can pull in all of these you can solo them out I mean sky's the limit man like you can route it obviously because you have a channel so the channel will routes if you want to send it to an ox you want to send it to you know to a mixing console you know you can do that so you have an MPC on your dock you have an MPC and cakewalk it's right here and so if you have you know you have a bunch of now one thing I gotta say is that is let's go back to loops if you have on if it's on the same line then once this plays but they won't play at the same time so that you can use to your advantage as well because you know you can kind of trigger one the you trigger another one so so there you go probably a long-winded example but I mean I think this is chock-full of you know things you can use you can drag and drop you can you know you can really explore without having to really have any like recording you don't need to record into the dog you can actually use it to trigger your trigger effects you can live trigger so all this stuff you can you can do it's sort of on the fly as well if you as long as you make you know link everything map everything to your keyboard so so there you go have at it enjoy cakewalk

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Length: 20min 50sec (1250 seconds)

Published: Sat May 23 2020