No Song Construction Kit

Downloaded (3x) Installed (5x) Danced a five message thread with Cakewalk tech support who has apparently given up, telling me I can find plenty of loops in the Audio Library. That's not what I want. What I want is what I paid for, the thousand or so loops that somehow has failed to install with my application. There is no Song Construction Kit in my Audio Library, my screens bear only a superficial resemblance to those in the tutorial and at this moment I've blown a hundred fifty bucks for nothing. My purpose here? Not just to vent/rant (Cathartic release!) but to ask if anyone else has had this problem? If no joy here then the next step is to call these people up and ask for my money back.

Maybe it is this bundle http://www.store.cakewalk...ductid=10-MTSS6.00-30E It has a huge collection of synth presets in addition to the loops that come with the standard MC.

OK..... That's one heck of a deal....  wow....!

OK ... it's been a really long time since I installed my Sound center add on packs.   And I don't remember the specifics. 

However, the packs should install themselves where they are supposed to install.  Accessing them is as simple as opening and running MC and install a soft synth choosing Cakewalk's Sound Center synth. 

The sounds are all available in the GUI where you choose a sound. This aspect threw me too when I first installed the 2 sound packs I bought. I had to confirm that they were there by looking for the sounds contained in the packs, in the GUI. They show up in there with the 150 or so sounds that come with it as a default starter kit. 

I did have some issues with the first kits not installing or showing up in the GUI. That was an issue that cake did acknowledge and worked with me on to fix. They had to do something to the kits and give me new links but that was a few years back so that aspect should not be the issue here. IIRC it was related to the Vista OS but cake solved it in a few days and it works fine. 

In the GUI, where you choose instruments, with all the packs, you should have access to dozens of sounds in each category and sub category. Many of mine are empty. With all the packs, you should have many in each. 

If you don't, do not uninstall and reinstall since that would not solve anything since it's not the problem. The program MC6 is installed correctly, but simply can not find the sounds. 

Don't panic that you don't have it working yet. Not all installs go perfect. It took me 2 weeks just to figure out how to get sound out of the speakers. The folks here will do our best to help you get rolling. 

Now that I understand the issue, I will look into my DAW.... because those sound files should show up in a specific folder on the machine. I don't have time right now to look it all up.... but I will check back later when I have the time.

ive been having this problem too

johnww
........Why am I so insistent upon a thousand loops? Short version: Age and a disease that's turning my fingers into unfeeling lumps of flesh, and when a guitar player reaches the point where he can no longer feel the strings on the fret board then it's time to pursue other methodologies. And then, of course, there is the tinitus, but that's a different story altogether. So, without guitars, drum machine or even keyboards I put together a little thing and here it is: Just add the http thingy as the link thingy doesn't work, probably got something to do with the age of the post. youtu.be/8y14bNUecy8.

 
You may wish to look into Band In A Box.  www.pgmusic.com as they have a program that will do some amazing things. If fingers are preventing you from playing, this might be a viable solution. I generally use it for the rhythm stuff, bass, drums, piano, and the fill stuff.
 
This song,  all the parts, is BB. http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11971116 I did this as an experiment to see just what BB was capable if.... now in an effort at full disclosure..... BB did not play the solo's (guitar and piano) and fills exactly as you hear them in this song. 

This is the wrong forum for X2 issues but since you asked, X2 Producer does not include anything called a song construction kit. It does come with a 4GB+ sound library called "Loops and One Shots" which has a separate installer. If you had a Cakewalk product that had a song construction kit and want the kit you will need to install that product. The X series forum is here.