in this quick cakewalk tutorial i'm going to look at an extremely useful recording feature
in cakewalk by bandlab this is comp recording or loop recording
also known as comping and several other names like that but basically we're going to be recording
several takes all in one sequence so we're not stopping and starting the recording we're just
going to record several takes all in one sequence and then we're going to piece together one great
performance from all of those takes and once you start doing this you're going to be doing it
all the time on your vocals and guitars or whatever it is you record now let's jump into
cakewalk all right so in your project you want to go to this loop symbol here and click on it
and then this loop region appears so you want to extend this to whatever section you want to record
i like to set it at least one bar usually two bars before i want the actual recording to start
so say i want the actual recording to start on bar 2 here i would set it to either bar 1 or if i was
recording further in another bar ahead of that and that's so we can catch the initial
attack on whatever it is we're recording could be our voice guitar or whatever it is
we'll record we'll catch that initial attack that's going to come out a little bit before
the bar right there and then the same thing with at the end you want to capture the final release
of whatever it is you're recording so of course you don't have to do this you could set it for
exactly four bars if you want now i'm just going to grab my bass guitar and we'll see how this
all works alright so i've got my bass plugged in i just want to arm this track for recording
and i do want to hear what i'm recording so let's hear what that sounds like make sure
levels are decent right there and now i'm ready to start my loop recording and you'll notice
that i'm going to do multiple takes and i'm not going to stop the recording it's
just going to continue looping so let's hit record and we'll see what that's all about
all right and when you press stop the last take that you recorded is the one that's going to
show and now i'm going to show you how to see all of those takes but first i'm just going to
put this guitar away all right so i think i did about four takes this last one here says take
five that was just the beginning of a take that i stopped i'm just going to delete that
so what we want to do now to see all of our takes is right click on our track over here
go down to lanes and then we want to go to show slash hide takes click on that
and there's all of our takes right in there now you can see the last take that we recorded is
highlighted and that's the one that's up here in our composite track here now what if we liked the
beginning of take one what we would do is if you kind of hover over the section here you can see
the cursor icon changes like that so you want it to look like that and then you would just click
and drag over the part you want so so now this take one is the first section of our composite
track and now say for this middle section we like take three so what we would do is just again
click drag to that part and now take three is our middle section and maybe we want
take two for the bit of the last part maybe this little bit of the last part here but we still
want take four for this final part we're just doing this hypothetically i haven't listened to
it ideally what you'd want to do is listen to each take to hear what they're all about and then you
can pick and choose which parts you want for your final track but i just want to go through this
quick to show you how to do this so let's just listen to this back and hear what it sounds like
even though it's just a compilation of a bunch of takes your listeners aren't going to know
that and they're just going to appreciate that everything's in time and everything sounds the
way you want it to sound now if you want to get rid of these so you don't see them anymore
you could just right click go to lanes click on that again and it hides them we could also
duplicate this track if we wanted so we'll go to duplicate track and we want to click on
events then click ok and you'll see that we've copied all of those lanes or takes down here
and we could make another composite track if we wanted and then you could a b
them or maybe you want to create a harmony maybe there was some vocal takes that you did and you
like them and you want to create a harmony from those you could do that on this second track and
you can keep creating tracks and taking parts of whatever takes you want typically i'll do
three to five takes when i'm doing my comp recording but if i don't feel like i've nailed a
single one of those takes i'm just going to keep recording until i feel like there's a take in
there that i really nailed because ideally i don't want to comp it together i want to have one take
seamless from start to finish that i like but sometimes you need to dip into these other takes
and take the pieces that you like out of there so now that you've upped your cakewalk recording game
up your cakewalk mixing game by using aux tracks and buses by clicking the video on the screen and
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