TRYING TO DO A SIMPLE BLUES LINE USING NOT INSTRUMENTS JUST THE SOFTWARE CAN IT BE DONE.

Well, the software doesn't create music; you'll have to do that. It's really a recording studio.
Using the Piano Roll view (PRV) or the Staff view you can enter MIDI data in a track, be it drums or bass or organ, using the mouse. So you don't have to have any instruments at all, just your finger to click in notes.
You will need something to hear the MIDI data being played, though.
That could be a hardware synthesizer like is in a MIDI keyboard or MIDI sound module, or the synthesizer in your computer sound card, the Microsoft GS Wavetable synth. That's not the best choice.
Your best bet is to use one of the software synthesizers included with MC. You didn't write which version you have, so that could be the Edirol VSC, or TTS-1, or Sound Center. Or DreamStation DXi or Triangle II or Square 1...
You can also import audio loops or MIDI loops and use those in your songs.
If you listen to some of the music we post in the Cakewalk Songs forum, you'll hear all types of music, even rap and hip hop, but there's lots of rock, country, even classical and opera. Most of those songs are done in either Music Creator or SONAR, so yes, it can be done.
I suggest you start by going through the Tutorials in the Help file, and when you encounter a specific problem, you can ask here and we'll try to help.
Oh, all capital letters in a forum is considered yelling, and puts some people off who might otherwise offer help. No one likes to be yelled at, and we're just users here, not Cakewalk staff.
 

Simply google acidized loops blues and you will find a lot of stuff. It will take time to weed through it, but worth the effort. in a short time i found these:

http://www.dooleydrums.com/free_drum_loops.php

http://smokinloops.com/

http://www.drumsondemand.com/content/blues-drum-loops

http://www.platinumloops.com/detail.php?prod_id=61&cat_id=84&order=name&page=1

yeah... if the loops are free... even better.... BB ain't free....or cheap.

Beagle told me about an upgrade to BB... only $99 more....... do you know how tempting that is....?

some nice stuff there..... no doubt.

Simple blues line using the software, Studio Instruments (and one guitar).
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=5511094
As mentioned above, the software is a tool for YOU to create music, not to create it for you.
If you don't like the included loops, you can create your own.
Once you get familiar with it, it's really pretty easy.
What confuses me about the original question is that blues has a very simple structure, and it gets life from execution and inflection of playing it. I don't really understand why you would want the machine to do that for you.
Maybe I'm just missing the point?

Guitarhacker

Robomusic


So far i have not even tapped the 2010 version so with 2010.5 free and $99 for the RT upgrade i think i will wait for the 2011 upgrade and go for it all then.

my thoughts too.... a few more months and 11 will be out.

yes, but it will be more than $99 to upgrade from 2010 to 2011.  I don't remember the price I paid last time, but it was more than $99.  $179 maybe?

maybe.... I'll risk it..since what I have now is working well for me.... and in the 2011 version they will probably have added another 100 or so RT's so I'll add over 200 new and exciting RT's.... maybe....



where does all the madness end?

I am waiting for the upgrade that addresses the VSTi issue where jamstix works fully then i might stand pat at that point for a while. So far the software does far more than i will ever need.

I agree that sometimes the real tracks don't fit and I often revert back to MIDI for those instruemnts.

glad you're liking the ST stuff.  I've got a few of the ST expansion packs but I don't have the full ST version (the ST expansion packs work with STLE that comes with them).  but I've never like ST that much and I went with kontakt for several reasons.  one of which is the idea that it will import my GS3 samples, but alas it's not perfect and it can't import GPII so I'm left in the dust and have to find another piano.

Beagle


I agree that sometimes the real tracks don't fit and I often revert back to MIDI for those instruemnts.

Yeah... at times I have to have RB render the tracks several times to get a good one, and sometimes I just give up and go in a different direction..... another thing is to have 2 instruments and use envelopes to pick and choose the better parts in the tracks....  listen to my jazz tunes for examples of this at work.