We've just added a ton of new sound packs as DLC for Music Creator 6 Touch on Steam!. These high quality sounds for Cakewalk Sound Center include Pianos, Organs, Bass Guitar, Percussion, Strings, Video Game Sound FX, & more. Pick and choose the right style for your music or get the entire bundle for a reduced price.

Z3TA+ 2’s synth engine can generate sounds that stretch across multiple genres. By utilizing Z3TA+ 2’s advanced modulation matrix we can shape just about everything, even drums sounds.

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For a limited time Music Creator 6 Touch customers can upgrade to SONAR X3 Studio for only $99

Promotion runs from 1/16/2014-1/31/2014

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Working with loops inside of Music Creator 6 Touch is an infinite world of creativity. Check out this quick guide for transforming simple drum loops into heavy guitar effects with the tools inside of Music Creator 6 Touch.

Previous installations of Music Creator 6 Touch – Steam, created a folder ‘Cakewalk Content’ on C:\.

Due to customer requests this has changed:

• New installations will reference the ‘Cakewalk Content’ folder from your ‘Steam\SteamApps\Common\Cakewalk’ or ‘SteamLibrary\Cakewalk’ directory
  
• Existing installations will not be affected by this change. If you would like to point the application to the new folder paths you can do this manually under Edit > Preferences > Folder Locations

Known Issues:
Due to this change the ‘Demo Projects’ drop down is not populated in the Quick Start dialog window.

This will be resolved in a future update, for now you can do one of the following work arounds:

• Go to ‘File > Open’ and navigate to ‘Steam\SteamApps\Common\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Content\Music Creator 6\Demo Projects’ or ‘SteamLibrary\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Content\Music Creator 6\Demo Projects’ there you can open one of the files
  
• You can access the demo projects via the in project Media Browser. By going to ‘Music Creator 6\Demo Projects’ you can drag one of the listed files directly into a blank project. This will then open the file.
  
• Alternatively, under C:\ create a folder structure called “Cakewalk Content\Music Creator 6\Demo Projects’ and copy the contents of ‘Steam\SteamApps\Common\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Content\Music Creator 6\Demo Projects’ into it.

Additional Notes:
This change does not change the behavior of the Sound Center DLC expansion packs being copied to your system %Appdata% directory.

Who doesn't like shortcuts? Music Creator 6 Touch has tons of shortcuts to make your workflow quicker. Check out the guide here.

We are pleased to announce that we have made 8 new video tutorials available from the SWA Complete Music Creator 6 collection (available at Cakewalk.com). These free tutorials cover many of the basic functions you will need for creating music using Music Creator 6 Touch. Topics include an overview of the Skylight user interface, recording audio, editing, mixing, and more. These tutorials show off the true power of Music Creator 6 Touch in an easy-to-understand format.

You can see all 8 videos here :

The Polybius 8-bit Game Pack is a free set for Z3TA+ 2, inspired by all your favorite old-school video game titles. Includes video game themes, game over themes, boss themes, attack effects, blaster effects, and even some timeless sounds you are sure to recognize. The Polybius expansion pack proves the true power behind Z3TA+ 2’s synth engine and best of all, it’s totally FREE!

The goal of this article is to help you shop for an audio interface. These concepts can get very deep, but for now I will keep to some of the more basic points about the subject. Here are 9 questions you should ask yourself when comparing audio interface options.

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