in this cakewalk tutorial i'm going to show you how to use multioutput instruments in cakewalk by
bandlab sure it's easy enough to set up a stereo or mono instrument track but some instruments like
drums are at their best when using multi outputs this way you could put individual effects on
just the kick drum or just the snare drum i'm zane welcome to simple green tech and for this cakewalk
tutorial i'm using the free vst plugin mt power drumkit 2 but this will work with pretty much
any multioutput vst plugin just the interface is going to look slightly different but if you want
to grab this vst plugin i've linked to it down in the description but right now let's jump in
alright so let's start with an empty project and the first thing we want to do is bring in our
instrument so you go over here you click on our instruments icon and because i'm bringing in a
third party instrument it's not really categorized and i'll just drag it over into this section over
here now the next thing we're going to do is insert a stereo buss so you want to go up to
insert and click on stereo bus and it might not look like anything happened but if we go
to views console view let's close down this side panel here and you'll notice that we created
bus d over here let's rename that to drum bus and then we can close down the console view for now
now let's open up the interface for our plugin and we want to go to mixer and you can see we have
kick snare hi-hats toms our ride crash and china so that's one two three four
five six seven tracks that we need all together and the one with our drum kit on it counts as
one so we need to create six additional tracks so go up to insert multiple tracks
and in track count we'll create six and then the main destination is going to be
the drum bus so each of these new tracks that we create they're going to output to the drum buss
now click ok and you can see we have our new tracks here but it's actually created more so
we don't need all of those tracks we're going to delete the last one here and now let's rename each
of these tracks so the one with our drum kit on it let's call that kick then track two we'll call
snare track three will be toms four is high hats five is ride six is crash 7 will be china and
now we need to set the inputs on each of these so we don't need to change the kick one at all
but the snare will go down here and where it says none you want to click here go to mt power
drum kit 2 and you want to set this to the second one and you want stereo so you want the 2 stereo
because this is a stereo plugin we're going to do that for each one of these the toms will be
mt power drumkit three stereo hi-hats will be empty power drum kit 4 stereo
and we'll just keep going so we now have all of our input set and all of our tracks are renamed
let's now go back into the drumkit so we can see what we've done so when we hit kick it's going to
kick but watch we hit snare that's still going to kick what we need to do is go into the mixer
and we need to change these outputs so kick can stay on one but snare we're gonna change to two
same with the side stick and then hi-hats we had as four the toms were three and this plug-in is
capable of having eight outputs so you could create another one and have a separate one
for a different tom or a separate one for your open and closed hi-hats but that's up to you
all right so we have all of our output set now let's go back to the drum kit see what happens
so kick's still on one but now snare is on two and you can see high hats on four tom's on three
and everything's working the way we want it and now if we bring up
the console view again and when we play something
you'll notice it's not going to our drum bus so what we need to do is change the output of
our main track here so it goes to drum bus so you just click here and then select drum bus now watch
it's all going through the drum bus which then feeds to our master so now when you're creating
your midi or bringing in your midi information for this drumbeat you can just bring it right into
the kick drum track here so let's do that right now and now watch when we play it
you can see everything plays correctly and why you might really want to do this is because now we can
add effects to our individual kick our snare our toms our hi-hats whatever we want
because an eq and a compressor for a kick is going to be different than an eq and
compressor for a snare and toms and so on so let's just add an effect here to our kick
we'll go to audio effects cakewalk compressor and you can see in the presets they have
kick so we'll click on that and then we'll do the same thing for the snare
and they have a snare preset in there as well you'll probably want to change these
but for this demo i'm just going to go with the preset and we'll hear how this has changed
things
and of course you can have effects on your drum buss as well so you might want to put a
compressor on your drum buss and maybe an eq on your drum buss to sort of blend all your drums
together it can control the levels of all of your drums by using the fader on the drum buss
this makes it very easy for doing your gain staging and getting your levels correct and of
course you can adjust the level of each individual drum on each individual drums fader as well
if you use a vst drum kit in your projects chances are it has multiple outputs and you should set
it up this way so you can take your tracks to another level now if you want to see even more
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thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon