At the end of 2017, Gibson found itself on the verge of bankruptcy and began to get rid of unnecessary assets – the Cakewalk team fell under the distribution. In 2015, the well-known guitar brand Gibson acquired Cakewalk and began active development of the DAW, releasing several different editions of the program. An elegant and fully customizable interface, many editions for a wide variety of needs and wallets, and extensive audio options (see Cakewalk Sonar: 4 Features to Know About). The first version of this program for recording music appeared over 30 years ago, back in the days of MS-DOS.Ĭakewalk Sonar is a PC exclusive, which some foreign users call “Logic for Windows”. The chosen effect now appears in the FX rack of the track.SONAR is one of the old-timers of the DAW market. Replika XT is loaded from Insert Audio FX > Uncategorized in the below example. Thus, you may find your NI effect plug-ins in one of the predefined categories or under Uncategorized.

Click the + button of the FX rack to open the FX rack menu.Ĭakewalk categorizes the VST effects by type.

You can now play the plug-in's sounds via a MIDI keyboard or record MIDI data on the software instrument track.

Select the plug-in you wish to load and then click Create.Ī new track has now been created containing the instrument plug-in (KOMPLETE KONTROL in our example).

KOMPLETE KONTROL is loaded from the Sampler category in the above example. Thus, you may find your NI VSTs under Sampler, Synth or Uncategorized.

Click the Instrument drop down menu and choose from the categories available:Ĭakewalk categorizes the VST instruments by type.

In the Track Pane Header, click the + button and choose the Instrument tab.

Note: some NI products can be inserted both as instrument or effect plug-in (e.g. GUITAR RIG 6, REPLIKA, etc.) in an audio FX insert slot. FM8, KONTAKT, etc.) in a software instrument track.

This article explains how to insert Native Instruments plug-ins in Cakewalk by BandLab, including:

Using cakewalk by bandlab