No way to get your money back from them either.Īctually Cakewalk is a good piece of software (IMHO).for $40. She apparently has no knowledge of her product. Even more disappointing was the Cakewalk Customer Service Rep Kelly Brennan merely pointed me to the forum links. I have a Korg Triton Extreme and I am really pissed that I spent money on CW4 because I have no means of midi-in of instruments from multiple patch banks. This means that CW MC4 users have NO ability to Define their instrument in CW4 and are solely limited to using the General Midi interface. I know this because I deleted every instance of them and CM4 still displayed the Roland GS patches and Instruments as though CW MC4 were still reading the file. CW MC4 developers have completely hard coded the Instruments you see in the Instrument Definitions list. No change appeared in the MC4 list when I viewed the Patch Instrument names list. I modified every instance of the CW MC4 listed instrument name Roland GS (which was found in at least 10 different *.ins files, which were in multiple directories) to see which file affects what is read my CW4.

I did this to validate which ins file that the CW MC4 software actually reads. In the course of trying to understand how Cakewalk reads the ins file I tried just editing the Roland GS instrument Patch Names. I corresponded with a Cakewalk rep and was referred to several links here in the Music Creator forums on how to update the ins files to all another instrument (I have a Korg Triton Extreme). I am way frustrated with Cakewalk.1) the install file process hangs while installing a wav file (just ignore it and the installation will continue, 2) the Help files have graphics and discussion that refer to Sonar software, NOT MC4 (I believe), but really the most frustrating aspect is the Instrument definitions.

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