Creating Songs With The U-8 And Cakewalk Home Studio U-8; What Are Audio And Midi - Roland U-8CW Getting Started Manual

Creating Songs with the U-8 and Cakewalk Home Studio U-8

The process used to create songs using the U-8 and Cakewalk Home Studio
U-8 is as follows:
1) Prepare to create the song data.
2) Create the backing parts using MIDI or audio data.
3) Record the vocals and guitar.
4) Mix down the song.
This section presents an outline of this process of creating songs using
Cakewalk Home Studio U-8.

What Are Audio and MIDI?

Data in each of the two different formats, Audio and MIDI, has particular
characteristics, so when using the U-8 in combination with a sequencer,
select either Audio or MIDI based on the type of recording device being
used.
fig.06-03.e
Sequencer
Software
USB
PC
Audio Data
The sound data recorded from microphones, guitars, and devices such as
CD players and MD players is called audio data.
In addition to what you record through the U-8, you can also work with
wave files (files with the extension .WAV) as audio data.
One feature of audio data is that, like cassette tapes and MDs, you can
faithfully record any sound. However, one minute of audio data in stereo
uses up about 10 MB of disk space, so your computer needs to have a large
amount of free disk space in order to work with audio data.
MIDI Data
MIDI data is data that records performance messages. Whereas audio data
is a faithful recording of the sounds of played instruments, MIDI data
corresponds to the musical score of the played instruments.
Some features of MIDI data are that it is much smaller in size than audio
data, and can also easily be edited later. MIDI data is played using a MIDI
sound generator. A software MIDI synthesizer lets you play MIDI data
MIDI data
(Performance messages)
FOOT SW IN DIGITAL OUT IN MIDI OUT USB POWER
INPUT SENS EFFECTS / MIXER CONTROL EZ RECORDING
A PEAK B PEAK 1 2 3 4
GUITAR MIX
MIXER EFFECTS START / INST MIC DOWN U-8
OUTPUT USB DIGITAL STUDIO
INPUT
4 50dBm 4 50dBm
AUX TRACK STATUS REC
MONITOR VALUE
CURSOR
MIC
AUDIO MIDI
AUDIO+MIDI 1 2 3 4 RHYTHM BASS ACC 1 ACC 2
MASTER
AUDIO 1- 8 1 / 9 2 /10 3 /11 4 /12 5 /13 6 /14 7 /15 8 /16
MIDI 1- 8 ENTER EXIT
A(L) MIDI 9 -16
YES NO
EDIT
B(R) WINDOW MENU SELECT COMMAND
GUITAR
(Hi-Z)
PHONES LOOP AUTO PUNCH SHIFT
1 2
SET
0 10
PREV NEXT TAP
MARKER
MIDI
U-8
Audio data
(Sound played and produced)
Sound module
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