Yesterday at Best Buy, I picked up “Music Creator 5” by Cakewalk. A music program for MIDI and audio recording. I already have ProTools for Audio recording, but I picked up “Music Creator 5” for doing MIDI with it only. I installed the program last night, messed with it for a little bit. Couldn’t get MIDI playback to work and figured it out today. I got the MIDI playback to work on the new program. Using this software, you don’t even need a MIDI keyboard, MIDI mixer/interface and all that fancy stuff. You just use your regular wavelength built in MIDI synth. The MIDI on this program works and sounds fine. The instruments sounds  real enough. You can make your own drum patterns behind your songs if you want to. Soon I’ll be making full band tracks in no time once I learn how to use the software good. Don’t expect full band tracks from me right away as I still have to learn to work with MIDI first. I will use ProTools for recording real  guitar and vocals and will use “MC5” for recording MIDI band backup. Yep, I want to be a one man band. That is my goal.

MC5 seems like an interesting program. So far, I’m liking it. I plan to make some of my older songs full band versions too. It’s time I make some rock n’ roll songs here. Working with MIDI will be helpful for my guitar playing, especially jamming with lead solos which is what I plan to do also. I will make instrumentals first through MC5 just so I can get the hang with it and learn the program.

It’s time I make some full band rock songs and hopefully I start doing that once I learn how to use this program good. It will be a long while though ’til I get good at the software.

Kev