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Importing Cakewalk Files to NWC

I have never used Cakewalk, but have been offered some files
containing MIDI and lyric information.

The MIDI's I can now extract courtesy of a little ytility
called CAKE2MID, but I still have no way of viewing the
lyrics embedded in the Cakewalk file.

The impression I get is that Cakewalk is a Win95 application,
whereas I only have Win3.1. I am very happy with NWC and
would prefer not to have to buy another suite of programs.

Regards
John

Re: Importing Cakewalk Files to NWC

Reply #1 –
If you're, really after the lyrics, perhaps you could open the file with Notepad or Write and get the text out that way.

A

Re: Importing Cakewalk Files to NWC

Reply #2 –
Hooray! Another Win3.1x enthusiast!

fyi - Cakewalk is available for Win 3.11 also. The files are portable between the Win3.1 and Win95 versions.

The version I have is "Cakewalk Express V3.01." It came bundled (i.e. free) with my Audiotrix 3DXG sound card (by Mediatrix).

Re: Importing Cakewalk Files to NWC

Reply #3 –
Thanks for the replies to date, but as yet I don't have a
viable solution. I have tried viewing the Cakewalk .wrk
file in a variety of text editors, but there is so much
gobbledy-gook that it is extremely difficult to separate the
real lyrics without ambiguity. I guess that I wouldn't make
a very good code cracker 'cos I can't see the any obvious
pattern to differentiate between chords, control characters
and the real text. Thank you Andrew.

Yes Fred, I am a Win 3.1 enthusiast, but probably more
because I'm not an early adopter - or don't have the
wherewithal to be one. This may be one occasion however
where the odds of picking up a 16 bit version seem to be
lengthening somewhat. My local distributor tells me that
Cakewalk now only sells the 32 bit versions. In the absence
of any other ideas, my only thought is to find a shareware
site which, like me, has not quite kept up with the times.
No luck to date though.

Your ideas would be appreciated.

Regards
John

Re: Importing Cakewalk Files to NWC

Reply #4 –
John - How many Cakewalk.wrk files do you have?
If there's not too many - zip them up - send them over and I'll extract your lyrics for you - I assume you can handle the MIDI conversion OK - so you can get the notes but not the lyrics.

Barry

Re: Importing Cakewalk Files to NWC

Reply #5 –
Barry is a great guy don't you think!

Did Noteworthy ever ask him for his brilliant program that changes general midi drum tracks to notation?

Most Coolest Regards,
Johnti.
 

Re: Importing Cakewalk Files to NWC

Reply #6 –
I did a websearch and found Windows 3.1 versions all over the internet. 16-bit and 32-bit versions are on the same CD-ROM. Why not just download the demo version. The only function disabled is save. Maybe you could still copy lyrics though.

KenJ