r/Cakewalk

Hi everyone. Just as the title says I ran into a problem with Cakewalk Next when i tried to scan Kontakt 8 (VST3), because for some reason unknown to me it won't detect it? I should say before anything, the .vst3 file is located in Program Files > Common Files > VST3, along with the other VST3 files i've installed and scanned onto Cakewalk with no problem at all... except for Kontakt 8. Because despite having already directed Cakewalk to that specific folder containing the file, it won't get scanned. Apologies if i'm not too proficent in this kinda stuff. I just got into music making not too long ago and I ain't used to computers at all either. This happens to be such a huge problem to me because it seems that a lot of plugins are reliant on the Kontakt player and i'm otherwise not able to use them on my projects. I could really use some help here and i'd very much appreciate it, so thanks in advance.

I want to know how to learn music production and sound engineering from scratch.

Started with Sonar and Next.

I don't know where to start. I started by watching some videos on YouTube. But it felt like it was not enough.

The problem that I face is that I don't know the proper structure and sequence of learning various topics. "Should I start with Basic of Sound or Music Theory" or "Should I learn more theory about EQ , Dynamics or jump straight into writing and testing some music".

I usually just ask Ai about various topics. Eg "What is EQ" , "Fundamentals of Music Production" , etc

I will request the pros for some guidance.

Or would I be better off getting a yeti gx,thanks

First of all, all I wanted was a free mandolin vst, and I saw people online linking at splice INSTRUMENTS, not counting the fact that it is also one of the first search results I find when typing "free mandolin vst".

So, I downloaded Splice INSTRUMENTS, made an accounct, logged in, found a mandolin pack, downloaded it and... I'm still trying to figure out how to use it in Sonar, if I even can at all.

Can you guys help me pls?

Very new to this, and just downloaded an ambient vst off of Arturia for free, and im wondering how i would use it in cakewalk next?

Thanks, Paul

I’m sure this is a repeat but looking for how I can open my old 2004 era SONAR Cakewalk projects. I have an old windows 32 machine under vmware (not the original image or lic) that I can install Sonar 2 on ,which I think is my best bet, but don’t have a license. I tried the REAPER CWP plugin on that same old win32 machine but got lots of errors. There is a fair bit of midi drums which may be the issue with the that but it could be because it’s on an ancient win32 image. I’m just looking for what my options are free or not to poen those projects up again somehow.

Hi. do you guys know where to get 16bar loops or creating one with 8bar loops won't make anyone notice??

I got it connected to my PC with the usb, and I can see the signal arriving to the track and going through the bus A, problem is I cant hear anything and it doesn't seem to be recording anything, also I don't know which output is the output for the phone out (the one with the knob), is it the "out 1+2?"