ANOTHER CAKEWALK QUESTION

[ALLY]

My friend just bought a cakewalk program a few days ago to record on his computer, and he keeps tellin me to hook it up with my vr800 and vm200. Why? What advantages does linking a computer to your system have. can't I do everything I need to with just the vr800 and vm200?

[twist]

Yes, actually you can. The cakewalk idea is just another option that will give you a little more flexibility.

Twist

[ALLY]

what kind of flexability? Is it just so you have a big screen to look at, or does it actually let you do different things?

[twist]

Ally,

Sorry my first reply was so vague. I can't think of anything you can do with cakewalk that you can't already do with what you have. It's a different means to the same end.

It probably is easier to edit if you need to, with a large screen, but not necessary.

If you have a specific question about a feature in Cakewalk, You should post it in the Cakewalk Forum, where there are many experts to help you.

Twist

[Mike Nielsen]

Ally, what I THINK I am going to use Cakewalk for with the VM200 VR800 set up is to memorize mixer moves. Although the VM200 has "snapshot" memory of the positions of faders, EQ and efx, it does not offer moveable fader memorization internally. So what you do is hook midi from it to your computer's midi ports, then open up cakewalk and record your moves using some kind of console view that matches that of the Fostex. At least, that is what I think is possible. As you move fader one, for example, Cakewalk records your movements and then can play them back on the next pass as you adjuct channel 2's levels. Does anyone else agree with this? I have not tried it yet because my VM200 is somewhere on I95 between Jacksonville and Baltimore right now in a long UPS truck headed from Sam Ash to me.

[ALLY]

I think I'm gettin the picture now. Thanks.