Using Cakewalk for songwriting

Interesting, Pete, thanks for the info!    

And hopefully moved from here to the coffeehouse. This is what is called spam, and a violation of the TOS.

Oh, and steroids are bad, m-kay?

 
Thanks Beag.
 
Yea, I was just trying to pass on the info to my freinds in the MC forum.
 
I guess there's one opinionated fellow in this forum who's just so good he don't need no stinkin' help. Funny though, I've never seen his name on any top 40 list.
 
And as far as the other comment...well...life's too short to sweat the small stuff.
 
Anyone can improve their appearence and can do so without chemicals. Those who are too lazy would rather ridicule those who have worked hard at it than to drag thier own butts into a health club. I suppose it's easier to ridicule and degrade others than improve one's self.
 
I'm done.
 
Pete

 Hi Janet,
 
I signed up for the same one. It just seemed to be a better time for me.
 
I didn't know it was going to be an interactive seminar. This will be interesting. I do have a headset with earphones and a mic but I'll probably just sit on the sideline and observe.
 
And thanks for the avatar comment.
 
It's funny...as a child, and even through high school, I was ridiculed and bullied because I was skinny, scrawny, and under-developed. I was always the last one to be picked for teams.
 
Immediately after high school I started weight training. After 35 years of sweat and determination I developed a physique to be admired. But now I get ridiculed and bullied by folks who are skinny, scrawny, and under-developed.
 
Isn't life ironic?   However these life experiences give me plenty of material for songwriting.
 
Pete

I think it's good info to have passed along, thanks Pete.  I also am glad they moved it, as it should be available for a longer period than the MC forum, but not sure why they moved it to Songs rather than, say, Techniques or to Coffeehouse.   But,  lots of good info in there and in Shad's case no, I don't think this is spam, it's more on-topic that a lot of us could benefit from, and like Pete said it's not like he works for them or is promoting their product.
Pretty impressive list of stars who currently use MasterWriter, I even saw one of my all-time favorites, Jimmy Web.  I got a book of his, about crafting songs, and it has been extremely helpful.  Unfortunately for me, writing songs has been a lot easier than recording decent tracks and then trying to mix them!  And yeah, I already have 1 or 2 of the "dummies" books but there's only so much you can teach a dummy.....!      
Actually in one of these other threads, Herb made a great post about a discovery that changed his recording, and I've been going through the same thing in this past week.  Create tracks in which the instrument drops in and out at times, freeing up the space for other things like vocals, to come through.  I've been finding that really, I had much more to learn from the initial "Tracking" step than even the Mixing step.  
I even used envelopes for the first time a couple days ago and sheesh!  What a cool thing to see and hear working properly.  This proccess is like mountain climbing - you can kill yourself trying to keep up with those who are ready for Mt. Everest - I'm sticking to the little sandpiles for now!   Who knows, in another month I may even be ready to try to create a buss - shades of going back to RobertB's tutorials!        Happy songwriting everyone!

FYI--you need to download the software to join the meeting (which doesn't take long), so try logging in a few minutes early. 

It does look like a really cool program and maybe even I could write songs if I had it.  He's offering a good deal, but I probably won't get it now. I wish I could get it for my song-writing friend.   Oh well...I got a few other things done while listening so it wasn't totally wasted.  :-)