Compare and contrast Music Creator 6 Touch and SONAR X3

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.

Read about it here on the Cakewalk Blog

Z3TA+2 Soft Synth is Now Available on Steam and is 50% off.

The legendary waveshaping sound of Z3TA+ (zay'-ta) is back – and better than ever. New filters, modulatable waveshapers, flexible effects, expressive control and a gorgeous new interface make Z3TA+ 2 one seriously powerful synth. It’s not often that a soft synth can be called a classic, but in the case of Z3TA+ it’s definitely appropriate. Used on countless tracks over the past decade, Z3TA+’s distinctive sound has been a staple of electronic artists the world over.

Z3TA+ 2 is the perfect add-on for any compatible digital audio workstation (including Music Creator 6 Touch which is also available on Steam).

*Offer ends September 16th at 10AM Pacific Time

"Recently, Cakewalk worked with the great folks over at Valve to make our Music Creator 6 Touch software available to their community, and the onslaught of new “music creators” has been nothing short of amazing and inspiring. To kick off our promotion, we thought it would be a fun experience to recreate Jonathan Coulton’s cult classic “Want You Gone” from Portal 2 all in Music Creator 6 Touch (MC6t) – but the kicker is that we had 24 hours to do it in order to make the deadline for launch. In this case, not only was collaboration creatively beneficial, but it was also essential."

The demo project for this song is included with Music Creator 6 Touch and we have posted the second, of a three part series on the Cakewalk Blog to give you an idea on how we made this song from scratch.

Read part 2

Cakewalk has just published a second update to Music Creator 6 Touch which includes a fix to the email registration as well as 200 new loops courtesy of Loopmasters. These new loops span a wide range of electronica genres including dubstep, EDM, trance, techno, and more. There are now available right from the Browser and can be dragged and dropped into your tracks. The new loops were added a result of feedback from Steam users.

This update is now available for free and will be included for any new purchases on Steam. Enjoy!