Cadence / Songwriting resources
A working song, shown inside Cadence. These captures follow Springtime Showers through arrangement and vocal effects, with a writing workflow you can use on your own track.
Available now for iPhone, iPad and Android.
Open a song and bring in its lyric, beat and vocal ideas. If the starting point is a voice memo, transcribe it and correct the words against the recording. Follow the import and transcription guide.
The clips below show the arrangement and DAW stages of Springtime Showers. They do not document its original transcription.
Use Arrange to organise the song sections. Listen through their order before moving into the DAW, where the beat and vocal takes become clips you can work with on a timeline.
If a DAW session already exists, read the replacement confirmation before rebuilding from Arrange. Preserve manual edits and exported versions you want to keep.
Open the channel and effects controls. Compare the processed sound with the dry vocal, then return to the whole mix. Changes that sound impressive in isolation may make a lyric less clear when the beat returns.
Choose one recording you want to finish. Put it with its lyric, decide where the hook belongs, and make a rough demo you can listen to away from the editor. A useful next version can tell you more than another week of isolated notes.
Tools for your writing. Not writing in your place.
Explore a rhyme, loop a beat, capture a take. You decide what belongs in the song. Transcription helps put your recorded words on the page; it is not a replacement for your voice.
See the writing workspace
Keep lyrics, rhyme ideas, beats and takes together as your song develops.
Available now for iPhone, iPad and Android.
