How To Upload Bandlab Projects Into Cakewalk
erictheriault wrote I'm a long time Cakewalk user and just got myself a license of Notion; what is the best way to import WRK files into Notion? All of these files are just pure canvass music files. Please let me know.
I exercise everything on the Mac, but I did some inquiry on Cakewalk and know a lot almost Windows . . . 
THOUGHTS
Breeze has been caused by BandLab and at present is a free product, which you can download, install, and use at no charge once you get a free BandLab account . . .
Cakewalk is a Windows-merely application, and this is the case for the new BandLab version of Cakewalk, every bit well, which maps to my having zero way to run information technology, merely so what . . .
WRK Files vs. MusicXML Files
NOTION does not import, read, write, or sympathize Cakewalk WRK files; so this strategy is not going to piece of work . . .
However, NOTION understands, reads, writes, and uses MusicXML format data; and so this is the strategy to use . . .
The current BandLab version of Cakewalk exports MusicXML but does not import MusicXML . .
NOTION also reads, writes, and understands MIDI, and then MIDI is another possibility . . . .
A BIT OF SURF.WHAMMY HISTORY
In the late-1990s. I was a Microsoft Solution Provider (MSP) and was certified in several Microsoft software evolution languages. Generally, I was considered to be an expert in Windows software development, including SQL Server . . .
I have been interested in music for well over one-half a century, so around this fourth dimension I got a re-create of Cakewalk and tried to make sense of information technology; just on a custom, loftier-end Windows machine this was impossible, in part considering pretty much everything was an add together-on or third-party production . . .
After a while, I abandoned the thought of doing digital music production on a Windows motorcar . . . 
A yr or 2 later, Apple tree released the first iPod, so I got a Mac and an iPod, where the Mac was required to make the iPod "happy" . . .
Around this fourth dimension, Microsoft abased Visual Basic in favor of the totally goofy Visual Basic .Net, and this was when I decided to switch to the Mac, although I continue to do a bit of Windows work in certain scenarios . . .
Once I switched to the Mac, I discovered that everything works rather automagically and more often than not does not bother the man using it . . .
I got a MOTU 828mkII external digital audio and MIDI processor then I could connect a standard XLR microphone and a Fender Stratocaster to the Mac; and since it included MOTU AudioDesk (the light version of MOTU Digital Performer), I was able to make music, since as noted, everything on the Mac tends to piece of work automagically, meaning that it does not require a lot of messing with computer stuff . . .
Fast frontward a decade to 2010, and I decided to do a Flamenco vocal just couldn't play the rhythm patterns on my drumkit . . .
This led me to NOTIONl and then to discovering VSTi virtual instruments and VST effects plug-ins . . .
[Annotation: This is the Flamenco song, and it's the first song I did with music notation in NOTION. I accept lyrics and a melody--played by the synthesizer--and I might do the singing sometime. The verses take a 12-beat Bulería rhythm blueprint, and the interlude has a custom 36-beat rhythm blueprint. One time I practice the singing, I plan to do a music video where during the interlude I will do a mime reenactment of the Mayan Story of the Creation of the Globe wearing an enormous Elvis pompadour wig, a Venetian Mask, ballet tights with an impressive codpiece, and fuzzy pink bunny slippers while juggling unshucked ears of corn . . . 
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SOLUTIONS
In that location are two possibilities, and ane of them should be relatively piece of cake, albeit with a primal caveat:
(1) You can export everything as MIDI and then import the MIDI to NOTION. This might be easy if you can consign all the MIDI. The main presumption is that you have MIDI for all the instruments.
(ii) The all-time solution is to devise a mode to export songs from Cakewalk equally MusicXML, since in groovy contrast to MIDI, MusicXML already is in music notation format and does not require NOTION to convert MIDI to music notation, which you lot will discover is an fine art rather than science, because there is no i-to-ane mapping of MIDI to music-note, and vice-versa. Explained some other way, MIDI is digital merely music notation is analog--at to the lowest degree conceptually and mathematically. MIDI uses units of ticks, pulses, and similar primarily digital units, while music annotation is based on powers of ii, although by using tuplets you can create odd note durations and timing. Making information technology all the more disruptive, when y'all use a VSTi virtual instrument, NOTION converts the music annotation to MIDI and sends the MIDI to the VSTi virtual instrument "engine" to tell the engine which notes to play and at what duration and tempo, although this happens behind the scene. In this respect, NOTION does a nearly pristine chore of converting its music notation to MIDI in an effectively one-to-one mapping.
SUMMARY
Exporting as MIDI and so importing the MIDI to NOTION is one strategy that works, but the best strategy is to export MusicXML from Breeze and so to import the MusicXML to NOTION . . .
If you are using an older version of Cakewalk, then I read somewhere that Cakewalk Producer will consign MusicXML . . .
If you have WRK files, I suppose the key is to be able to use them with the new BandLab version of Cakewalk, since this version of Cakewalk will export MusicXML . . .
This is what I found regarding WRK files and BandLab Cakewalk:
"Breeze by BandLab tin open Cakewalk Projection Files (.cwp), Cakewalk Package Files (.bun), and fifty-fifty pre-SONAR files in the .wrk format. If yous're having trouble opening a project, there are a few things to consider."SOURCE: Cannot Open a Project (Breeze by BandLab Assistance Eye)
Although I have no way to test or verify that any of this really works, it certainly appears there is a path forward, which will depend on the current version of Cakewalk you are using and whether you tin can get the songs into the BandLab version of Cakewalk or can export MusicXML with you current version of Cakewalk . . .
This is the link to the BandLab website for Cakewalk:
Cakewalk by BandLab (BandLab)
This is the link to the online documentation for Cakewalk by BandLab:
Cakewalk by BandLab Documentation (BandLab)
This is the electric current version of my newest Simple and Stupid #4 song done in the new Stupid musical genre I created a few months ago, where the goal is rollback the clock to the time when garage bands were truly stupid and composed songs that made little if any sense but were excellent musical accompaniment for the chief action of the so-chosen "Youth of Today", which specifically in Shakespearean terminology is to ensure the globe is adequately peopled . . .
Project: Simple and Stupid (PreSonus NOTION Forum)
Lots of FUN!
Source: https://forums.presonus.com/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=43899&sid=f61cccb9f6de1375142fa2883ef62434
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