Hello all. Brand new. First post. I am a rather ( shockingly ) older dude in Seattle who was very active in music and recording back in the caveman days of analog. Worked with Cubase a while back in 2006, so I know a bit about it all, but yeah, I'm a newbie, more or less.
I am a poker dealer in Seattle and I have another month or so off, it seems. In an effort to use the free time better, I'm making a good faith effort to get some tunes recorded. Toward that end I have acquired a totally good enough computer( 64 bit and all that ), and I've downloaded and installed Cakewalk, the free DAW from Bandlab. I've been working with it 3 days, devouring tutorials online, and learning how to make it fly. But last night I hit my first wall, and I'm just clueless. I've spent 5 or 6 hours now searching online for vids or text to get me past this, but there really isn't anything there. Makes me think it's just me, missing something painfully obvious. I'm pretty sure about 88% of the people who might read this here would be able to help me out. Also kind of figuring a few of ya'll will be able to help me out, and will do so before long
My trouble is with opening and installing VST's into my Cakewalk Daw. I've tried with about 15 apps now, and roughly half of them went just fine. Sadly, the half that went well was the half that take care of itself, more or less. I know how to ( roughly and clumsily ) extract files with winzip, and I can find and drag the appropriate dll file into my vst folder. My failures are coming with the VST's that have their sounds in separate files. I think they are " mms " files. I think they are samples. I know I need to get them " living " and connected to the associated player in the DAW, but I am just clueless on how to do it. I guess I'm so ignorant of the answer that I'm not even able to ask the right question. Can't find a thing
So yeah.... this is vexing. Really fired up and trying and really eager to make some stuff happen, but this is hanging me up bad. I'll say thanks so much for any and all help I get here.
Let's all stay safe and well