 Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. I'm super excited to be telling you about a completely free gift that I'm making available to the Katewalk community today. Whether you're a complete beginner or whether you've been using Katewalk for more years than you care to remember, I really believe this is going to be a useful gift for all of you in the coming weeks, months and years. I'll get onto why I think that's the case a little bit later on, but why am I announcing this today? Well, first of all, it's so that I can utterly and shamelessly promote to you my upcoming course for Katewalk. It's called the Absolute Beginners Guide to Katewalk. And as its name suggests, it is directed at complete beginners, people who have perhaps never even used a door before or never recorded music at home before. I wanted a guide for those people, which was jargon light and which got straight to the point so that they can actually record their first song. So it cuts out all the fluff. It leaves out all of the advanced stuff that you don't need to know at first. And we get on and actually record a song. Now, if that's something that's going to be of interest to you when this is released in the next week or two, watch the rest of this video because I'm going to be putting a coupon code up on the screen so that when that course becomes available, you can get yourself a nice discount. Now, of course, during the course of that course, that's three, I think, I actually recorded a song. OK, I really wanted to record a song with people so they could see how it's done. And it's the project file for that song, which I'm making available to you as a free gift today. Now, hang on, before you rush off and roll your eyes and think, oh, is that it? Just a project file. I've got plenty of those. Let me explain why I think you should be grabbing hold of this. First of all, the project itself covers a lot of things that are obviously contained in the course, the basics of, you know, sort of recording audio. There's audio there, there's MIDI, there's virtual instruments, etc. So all that stuff is in there. But there's also a lot of things that we've discussed on the channel in there. I've made use, obviously, of things like EQ, compression, that kind of thing. I've used them as inserts. I've used the Pro channel. I have used buses. I've used things like sidechain compression, parallel compression, automation, all that kind of good stuff. And by the way, I have not used any third party plugins in this project. It's all the stuff that you get with Katewalk for free. So all of you can definitely make use of this project. Of course, you can grab hold of that and you could just play around with it. You can reverse engineer, etc. And that may be fun. But the reason why I think you should all actually grab hold of this is because I'm going to be using this project in future videos when I'm doing tips and tricks and tutorials, etc. Now, I know a lot of you like to have creative source open on one screen, for example, and then Katewalk open on the other. And you like to follow along. This is going to enable you to follow along with my steps exactly so that you can learn some of the skills and tips and tricks that I try to teach you on this channel. So I definitely recommend grab hold of it now. Have it on your system and then it will be available to you as those tutorials come out. But of course, you can just have fun with it. You can re-engineer it. You can record new parts for it. You can delete parts for it. You can change the instrumentation. You can add third party plugins if you wish. I would be delighted to see and hear your results with what you can achieve by experimenting with this file. You can get it easily just by going along to free cakewalkproject.com or just follow that link in the description down below. Now, when you do get there, and this is really important, when you do get there, you're going to get to a page where you can download the zip file, which has the project files in there. There's going to be a video on that page. It's just an explainer video for the project. I really highly recommend watching that video because that's going to just get you up and running about the anatomy of the project, as well as just a quick guide on how to use the project files, which are in the zip file. So as I say, it's going to give you a bit of an explainer as to what the different components of this project are. So you can more quickly understand how it's all working. I really hope that you all take advantage of this free gift. And for those of you who are just getting going and you want to record your first song in cakewalk by Bandai, make sure you keep a watch out for the launch of my new course. I very much look forward to that. Thank you so much for your time today, and I'll see you in the next video.