Tying notes in Cakewalk

[CurtisS]

I am very new to Cakewalk but not to computer music notation programs. Can someone tell me how to tie notes together in the Staff window (I feel stupid that I cannot figure this out)? I have searched the Cakewalk forum but that yielded no answers. Thanks.

Ciao for now!

CurtisS

[DavidK]

It does it automatically. Say you want to tie a quarter note on beat 4 to a quarter note on beat one of next measure. Just put a have note on beat 4, and it will show two quarter notes tied.

[CurtisS]

I did stumble on your answer just playing around but what I really want to do is tie 2 or more whole notes together to hold a long duration note. I know there is a MIDI solution for this but can it be done on the Staff window?

[DavidK]

I dont think so. It certainly isnt in the manual. Sorry

[brutus]

If you are using Sonar, there is a way. If you want to tie two or more whole notes together, select a whole note and change your note duration in the note duration window to as many beats as you need...ie 4.0 to 8.0 or 16.0. This should give you a tied whole note for as many measures as you need. I found this out trying to make a midi rain sound that would last more than 4 beats. Of course, I am not sure if this is the same process in other versions so YMMV.

[AlChuck]

That's what DavidK said. I think what CurtisS wants to do is take two quarter notes as they look on paper and apply a tie to them. Cakewalk does not do this, but if you put a single note in with the desired duration, as Davidk and you suggested, the tie is displayed in the notation.

I think that tying separate notes would be a great feature to add. Or being able to choose three notes and tell SONAR to make them quarter-note triplets would be nice too...

[DavidK]

Yup, SONAR is hardly a notation program, but I have found that it comes in handy for certain things, like when AlChuck sent me a Zappa tune and I could see the midi notes in staff form. Still fairly decent for a audio/sequencing program.

I do a lot of notation stuff. I have Sibelius and Encore. Sibelius is the best one out there, but the interface stinks. Encore is old (now bankrupt), but really easy to use. I actually use Encore more, unless I do something that really needs to look great, which Sibelius does.

[brutus]

Originally posted by CurtisS
I did stumble on your answer just playing around but what I really want to do is tie 2 or more whole notes together to hold a long duration note. I know there is a MIDI solution for this but can it be done on the Staff window?

He said whole notes, so I was responding to that, which was in response to DavidK's first response....so in response, I have no response to respond to...or something.


brutus

[CurtisS]

Thanks for the help, everyone. I am used to using Noteworthy Composer for notation which is really a great program. I'll try messing with the duration to see if I can get what I want.

Ciao for now!

CurtisS

[CurtisS]

Just some post-post information for FYI.

I found a work around to my question. I opened up the piano scroll window and just click/dragged the note durations that I needed to be longer. Doing this updated the Staff window with tied whole notes. Not elegant but it does the trick. Thank to everyone who posted replies!

Ciao for now!

CurtisS

[adam]

I've had the same probelm and use the same workaround

[AlChuck]

There are many ways to edit a note's duration. But you know, it never occured to me that dragging the note's right side in the piano roll view is probably quite a bit easier than editing the duration of a note in the Staff view (a simple dragging motion rather than a right-click on the note to open the dialog box and then typing in the duration value as a number of measures/ticks). But then, most of the time when I use the Staff view it's because I'm inputting parts from a score (since my keyboard-playing skills are minimal) and maybe it would be more of a pain to constantly switch between staff and piano roll views to create notes with longer durations that would be normally represented with ties. Either way, it's tedious as hell. I should just spend an hour a day practicing keyboard skills...