Feb 26, 2014

Cakewalk Blog: Z3TA+ 2 – Creating a Simple Hip Hop Bass Kick

Community Announcements - Seth Kellogg [Cakewalk]

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.

Read More at the Cakewalk Blog

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Dec 18, 2013

Now Available on Steam - SONAR X3

Product Release - Valve

SONAR X3 is Now Available on Steam and 10% off*!

The definitive digital audio workstation for Windows PC has finally arrived on Steam.

Create music in any style with cutting-edge instruments, effects, and creative tools. Thanks to the award-winning Skylight user interface, SONAR X3 lets you move seamlessly in your production workspace, instantly going from recording to editing to mixing and back again. Produce flawless tracks with the 64-Bit Double Precision audio engine and upload polished mixes directly to YouTube and SoundCloud. Plus, SONAR X3 let's you do it all without limiting the number of tracks and plugins; all while supporting the latest technologies like VST3, multi-touch, and Gobbler cloud save.

Owners of Music Creator 6 on Steam will also receive a special cross-grade price. Please login and view the SONAR X3 page to see your special offer.

*Offer ends January 2nd at 10AM Pacific Time.

Nov 22, 2013

Transforming Drum Loops into Distorted Guitar Effects

Community Announcements - Dan Gonzalez [Cakewalk]

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.

Nov 22, 2013

Music Creator 6 Touch Updates

Community Announcements - Seth Kellogg [Cakewalk]

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.

Nov 20, 2013

New video tutorials available for Music Creator 6 Touch

Community Announcements - arossa

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 :

Nov 15, 2013

Now Available: Free Polybius 8-bit Game Pack for Z3TA+2!

Community Announcements - Dan Gonzalez [Cakewalk]

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!