Cakewalk Hardware Control

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In this video we learn how to control Cakewalk with various types of hardware!

🛒 DEVICES USED IN THIS VIDEO

MACKIE MCU PRO

ICON QCON PRO G2

PRESONUS IOSTATION 24C

ARTURIA KEYLAB 88 MKII

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[juergen_b]

Thanks Mike for covering this topic. I have a Behringer X-Touch One and I love to use the fader, it's so much better than the mouse.
Important tip if you have a single fader device: Check the "Select highlights track" option. This will make sure that your single fader always works on the track you want.
You also want to have "Use Scrub+Bank ..." option checked for switching between tracks and busses.

[adamhopkins]

Here's a nice ol' comment to help your video out because I've been searching for hours to get my controller back working after it bugged out for some reason! Top job, thanks!

[DomedIsDoomed]

The "End All Be All" when it comes the Cakewalk tutorials! <3

[jimmysee]

Thanks Mike. I have had my Keystation 61 for about 8 months and could not get the transport buttons to work. It was the "Disable Handshake" that got it working. Cheers mate.

[mlwsf]

I was hoping that you would go through the Cakewalk Generic Midi and ACT functions. I have an Alesis VI49 with lots of knobs, buttons, and transport controls have no idea how to synch them up. There's a surprising little amount of info out there and it seems like a waste of the new keyboard's potential

[chakko]

For my Novation Impulse 49, I had to activate the "HUI (Beta)" protocol in the Mackie Control - 1 dialog. All works now, transport controls and knobs and faders in DAW mode to control volume, pan, effect sends etc. 😊 Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Sir.

[MrOnemoreknight]

Hey Mike, I remember I contacted you after a previous video about problems I was having hooking up my Arturia Keylab 61 to Cakewalk and you very kindly told me about the Hand Shake option, which certainly helped. However I was still not entirely happy with the way it was working, or not working, especially after trying the keyboard with Ableton as an experiment just to check that there wasn't a problem with my PC and found it all worked perfectly. I then contacted Arturia support who informed me that Bands Lab hadn't got the MCU protocol set up properly. With that I contacted Band Lab and they told me that one of there engineers would look into it. That was back in February. There have been a couple of up dates from Band Lab recently, neither of which mentioned the MCU protocol problem, so I contacted them again to be told that their engineers are still looking into it. It is a shame when in every other respect I find Cakewalk a brilliant DAW, that something like this lets them down. Hopefully they will sort it out soon. Love your video, very informative as usual.👍

[phlogistonstudio]

Thanks Mike. Helped quickly get me sorted for my Arturia keylab 49 for the most part. Loop doesn’t seem to work, and the 9th rotary knob just seems to be there for twiddling only…. No function. This is the first MCU enabler controller and I used to using ACT and setting up my own maps. The MCU utility doesn’t midi learn new buttons so a crash course in the finer workings in cakewalk if you get around to it! Thanks again for the quick primer. Very useful.

[Barberossa]

Thanks for that great video - helped me a lot undestanding the different ways on using a midi-controller.
I have one question though - how do i map my midi-controllers physical buttons to certain VST-Effects? the keyboard itself (AKAI mini) is working flawlessly - but i dont get the knobs connected to let's say the reverb of an effect. regards

[garywatters]

Mike....Miracle Man on the Altura Keyboard! thank you

[NarrowboatJourneys]

Success! I set up my Zoom R8 to Cakewalk. It works fine as an audio interface but did not work as a control surface. Your tip on disabling the handshake cured the problem. Thank you.

[spacekid]

Hey MIke, great stuff as always!! As some of the comments mentioned below, could you do one where you show how to connect external midi controller and set it in a way to make control changes in plugins? I think it would be an interesting topic to cover.. Thank you!!

[spyke]

The 'Disable Handshake' tip worked for me. I've just started learning on a Donner DMK25 Pro and that fixed my issues. Thanks! You got yourself a subscribe and a like for that.

[raselbajracharya]

Please keep making good content like this. You are a very good teacher teaching from the basic to advanced. So so so helpful for musicians like me. I owe you.

[neilogrady]

Thanks ever so much Mike. This worked a treat for my Arturia 61 MKII. Needed all the steps you mentioned to make it work, including the 'disable handshake' and now all my controls work.

[thomasschatton]

Great you cover this topic! Even greater that you always cover interesting topics and give useful and helpful advice! Thanx quite a lot of times!

[KGingeri]

You got me working! I'm using Cakewalk with a Novation Launchkey MK3 Mini. Had midi settings right, but when I went into Utilities and checked HUI, my Mini lit up in DAW mode! Thanks, Mike!! 😊 It comes (and is made for) Ableton (Lite) but I just don't seem able to like Ableton much.

[flavhyoris]

Thank you ! Very useful to set up my Arturia Keylabs Essential 49. The disable handshake did the thing.

[hanspijpers]

Thanks mike, it just went right the first instance, (plug and play style) I'm using a icon i-keyboard x And another subscriber

[steveburger]

As always, great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!