

This is clear even at installation: pop in the CD, run the installation routine, type in a CD key and serial number when prompted, choose which options to install and sit back and relax. One of the best things about version 9 is that, refreshingly, Cakewalk seem to have listened to their existing customers. Tab and fretboard views will win friends among the guitarists out there. So, is there anything new that version 9 can offer our jaded, pre‑millenial tastes? Oh yes. Recent versions have seen some notable features and firsts: version 6 was the first Windows sequencer to support real‑time DirectX plug‑ins, version 7 introduced an enhanced, floating‑point mix engine which massively improves mixing headroom and a 'proper' mixing console (of which more later), while version 8 came with real‑time MIDI plug‑ins and mixing envelopes (aka vectors). The history of the Cakewalk family of sequencers on the PC goes back all the way to the dim and distant days of DOS. If Cakewalk was a cat, it'd be on its last life by now - but, as Kevin Perry discovers, the long‑established PC sequencing package shows no sign of turning up its paws just yet.

Then your amazing free DAW is ready to create musical magic.At last! The multitrack piano‑roll view - note that Cakewalk intelligently handles both drums and normal instruments in the same view. At last the BandLab Assistant will show the Cakewalk section as Up to date, and you’ll see that the Install button has now changed to an Open button. Now the Cakewalk installation setup completes select Finish to complete and exit the install setup.

After accepting the license agreement, the installation will continue. Simply click OK without checking any boxes if you do not wish to install any add-ons. After tapping the install button first window opens with add-on items. Next is the green install tab to prompt start and install the process. The tap on the Apps tab, & get the Open button for BandLab, the green install button for the more advanced DAW – Cakewalk by BandLab. or by creating a Username and Password combination It’s free to Sign up, by creating a Username and Password combination, or else you can log in using Facebook, Google.

Download and install the BandLab Assistant. Next, click on the Download button to get the BandLab Assistant for Windows. BandLab’s free DAW offers almost the same features as its predecessor, eliminate the bundled third-party software. Cakewalk by BandLab is based on the currently halted SONAR Platinum digital audio workstation.
