How To Use Cakewalk by Bandlab - Tutorial For Beginners (FREE DAW)

Hey everyone, I thought I'd try talking a bit slower for this one as many people say I go to fast in my videos. 😅 Let me know what you think. Thanks for watching! Sorry for not including this but here is how you open tabs on the multidock: Go to the View menu at the top of the DAW and select the tabs you want open there. You will need an instrument track for the MIDI ones. P.S. If you want to use your computer keyboard as a MIDI controller, you can bring it up by going to Views > Virtual Keyboard > Computer Keyboard. Thanks to @Choco milk for pointing this out!

thanks. now i’m one step closer to world domination

I've never in 10 years witnessed such a smooth flowing, quick and concise, informative tutorial for ANYTHING ever. I wish you did guides for everything.

im so confused but i was more confused before i watched this so i guess thats a good thing

THIS IS THE BEST INTRO VIDEO FOR THIS PROGRAM. FAST AND TO THE POINT.

This is the standard for all software introduction videos. I've watched so many tutorials on how to edit videos and audio and they always seem to ignore the most basic thing which is how to navigate the interface and the basic settings to start with. Excellent concept and execution. Thank you for this and I will be checking out more of your videos soon.

This was the first DAW I used for about a year and a half. Then I switched to Reaper, now Ableton. Watching this video made me realize how much I missed out on Cakewalk since I never looked up tutorials and was pretty much self taught.

This is the first video I ever watched after switching from audacity to LMMS and finally to cakewalk. And this video was so straightforward. I loved it! And now cakewalk is my main DAW Thanks, Jake!

This is great, clear and concise. It's true that you go quickly, but there's a lot of material to cover so I'm happy with the pacing. Naturally, I'm going to be watching it a few times and taking written notes. Thanks for doing this.

I just started learning about music composing for game dev and your channel have helped a lot already. Thank you for such great tutorials and videos.

Perfect! Just the smart fast no nonsense overview I was looking for! Thanks for posting this Jake!! And the great thing about Youtube - I can replay and rewind as many times as needed for everything to sink in. If it's too fast I can change the playback speed in YT too.

Lucky t o have found your channel. I have been a Logic Pro user for a long time but no longer have a mac and now use a Windows laptop. Finding both Cakewalk by Bandlab and your channel gave me the opportunity to finally get back into the game. Thanks a lot and will definitely be one of your many followers in learning Cakewalk from your very informational and easy to follow videos.

Even though it's a lot information at once, nobody has ever explained so perfectly. I mean this must be the tutorial video for DAWs I've ever seen. Thanks a lot!

This was my first sequencer back in mid ‘90s. Old good daw from old good times. I’m glad to see it’s here around this times, modernized but faithful to itself.

Great tutorial! For me, this was a good overview of the DAW and its features. Being familiar with other DAWs did help me to follow what was explained. If I were a newbie, I think the speed of the tutorial might have been a bit intimidating, but from the perspective of an intermediate user I think that this was a very intuitive look at the DAW. The layout was explained in about the same order in which I would have asked questions. This quickly helped me to grasp where the various "things" were, such as the mixer rack, track list, and list of plugins. Overall I would give this a 5-star review if that was a thing on YouTube. I haven't looked through any of the other videos in the channel yet, but I will definitely be poking through some more! If there isn't one already, I would love a video that focuses specifically on workflow tips, perhaps also broken down by area in the DAW. There were already a few tips in this video which I really liked, and I think an entire video just focusing on various tips and mouse/keyboard shortcuts would be really valuable for more experienced users that really want to establish a more efficient workflow.

Super helpful, I had given up trying to fix the video error while Cakewalk was open but you helped me fix it within 2 minutes of the video!

I may still have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, but thanks to this video I was able to scrape together enough understanding to keep going.

I just downloaded this and WOW.....it's REALLY GOOD. I can't believe this is free! The last time I used Cakewalk was Sonar 2. I've been using Reason, Reaper, and Mixcraft lately but I can't wait to start using this "new" daw.

I got to the part where you talked about suspending playback outside of the DAW and knew this was going to be an awesome tutorial. You immediately solved my FIRST problem.

This is excellent. I used the original Cakewalk in DOS!!!! over the years, I stayed true to it as it added audio, etc. But eventually, Sonar simply became too expensive to update and maintain. While I need to re-learn much of this, who can argue with getting one of the very best Digital Desktop Recorders EVER for.....Free! Thank you!