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Hello to All
I just discovered this group last night and signed up. It seems like someone here will have answers that I haven't been able to find.
I'm writing a musical comedy. For better or worse, I've written the first songs in Encore, my old notation program. They are complex songs with a full orchestra accompaniment. Everything has been done in traditional notation. I save them to MIDI and they sound fine played back on my Live sound card with Big Merlin fonts.
Now I need to add the singers. My plan was to bring the MIDI files into Cakewalk, record the singers singing their tracks into the Cakewalk files, via my sound card, and then (later) adjust balances etc and burn a demo CD of the songs. Commercial quality is not needed at this point. My largest use now is to get the CDs to potential producers of the show.
No one I know here in Lincoln Nebraska uses Cakewalk or can answer a couple of basic questions, so here they are:
1) Is what I suggested above the best way to do what I need?
2) Is the Cakewalk 8 program that's on my computer a good thing to use? I don't need the highest possible sound quality, but I do need a reliable program that's easy to learn. Every hour I spend learning the program is another hour I'm not spending writing the remaining songs. Are there better programs for my needs? (I'm poor, but not totally broke)
3) If I use Cakewalk, how can I learn what I need to know as easily as possible. I have the Scott Garrigus Cakewalk Power book, but it seems like overkill for me, and seems aimed toward uses which are way different my needs. Is there some simple publication, or is there someone out there with lots of experience doing the sort of thing I'm doing?
Thanks for reading my rather long post. If you have suggestions, I'll be grateful.
Oh yes, If anyone knows a Cakewalk user in Lincoln or near, please let me know.
Peter
I just discovered this group last night and signed up. It seems like someone here will have answers that I haven't been able to find.
I'm writing a musical comedy. For better or worse, I've written the first songs in Encore, my old notation program. They are complex songs with a full orchestra accompaniment. Everything has been done in traditional notation. I save them to MIDI and they sound fine played back on my Live sound card with Big Merlin fonts.
Now I need to add the singers. My plan was to bring the MIDI files into Cakewalk, record the singers singing their tracks into the Cakewalk files, via my sound card, and then (later) adjust balances etc and burn a demo CD of the songs. Commercial quality is not needed at this point. My largest use now is to get the CDs to potential producers of the show.
No one I know here in Lincoln Nebraska uses Cakewalk or can answer a couple of basic questions, so here they are:
1) Is what I suggested above the best way to do what I need?
2) Is the Cakewalk 8 program that's on my computer a good thing to use? I don't need the highest possible sound quality, but I do need a reliable program that's easy to learn. Every hour I spend learning the program is another hour I'm not spending writing the remaining songs. Are there better programs for my needs? (I'm poor, but not totally broke)
3) If I use Cakewalk, how can I learn what I need to know as easily as possible. I have the Scott Garrigus Cakewalk Power book, but it seems like overkill for me, and seems aimed toward uses which are way different my needs. Is there some simple publication, or is there someone out there with lots of experience doing the sort of thing I'm doing?
Thanks for reading my rather long post. If you have suggestions, I'll be grateful.
Oh yes, If anyone knows a Cakewalk user in Lincoln or near, please let me know.
Peter
