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Ok. I know of Foobar. I'll check it out. It probably comes with a ton of options. Lets see how easy it is to strip down. I really, really don't need album art or artist info etc. I'm right now testing Musicbee on my other desktop. Shitload of (for me) unnecessary album, categories, album art, artist, and other info. The files themself is in a little corner easily missed. Options for handling of files is hard to find.

Someone know of a good candidate for this? All software mp3 players i've tested usually can shuffle the songs but no one seems to use any type of database to avoid playing a song that has been played before. For example if i have 500 mp3 songs, a played song shouldn't play again before the other 499 unique songs have been played. Would be nice with something smaller/simpler than winamp and vlc. It should just play thru a filelist with songs. No other options needed. Should work with windows 32 and 64 bit. PS. My main desktop have winamp and it have the ability to sort the filelist to get a random playlist. That kind of works also. I also checked CbB and Reaper. Seems they don't like to play chains in their mediabrowsers.

Everything was too fast. I tried to sloow down to 0.5 speed but the voice sounded too absurd so i skipped it. For native listeners the speed of the talk is probably fine. But the speed when doing things in the daw is a bit too fast. For me at least. Good idea though. ?

This "notes tidily laid out as 1/16s with identical note duration" is usually something people try to avoid. Sorry...

I got the feeling that @cclarry just happen to mention the number of the MAC version in the topic. Meaning his list of changes is what goes.

It has to be a misunderstanding. Obelisk is a midi only plugin with simple gui. There's very liitle to load. So, no. It starts immediately.

Adjust "snap to grid" or turn it off. I think it's in the process meny where you'll find "nudge". That's for small movements.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a download go directly to a folder called "download" and then in the startmeny you have the link to your download folder. ?

You should check if the vst you're interested in loading, is 32-bit or 64-bit. 64-bit vst is the preferred version to use. 32-bit vst often works with Cakewalk that has a good "bridge" to cake care of small differences. But the risk of plugin error is higher with these.

I have one other thought on this. If your onboard soundcard or your audio player have separate settings for your speaker uncheck any enhancements settings.

I choosed to forget that one. I focused on how two out of three could give different results. My answer reflects what i see as the only possible culprit - the speaker and its connections. Otherwise there's some missing or unknown facts we are not aware of.

It could be that the speaker takes the input through its own audio interface and that would color the audio.

If your speakers is "Edifier XM6BT - speaker system - for PC - wireless" it connects by Bluetooth. There's a difference in quality between direct out from the audio interface or converting the audio to a Bluetooth stream and then back from Bluetooth to audio in the speaker. Get yourself a speaker system that connects directly to the audio interface and your speaker audio would sound fine.

Thanks! Your answers made me investigate more. Started a thread here:

To import midifiles to Ripchord they have to be midi type 0. I have successfully imported midi type 0 with up to 3 tracks in them. To see what type it is. - Open the mediabrowser and go to your midifiles. - Highlight a midifile and look at the bottom of the mediabrowser window. In its frame is some info about the file. With midifiles you will see the type and number of tracks in it. Most of your midifiles probably is of type 1 so you have to convert to type 0. The quickest and easiest must be this little converter i found. http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/software/midiformat/index.htm It install fine on win7 and 8. Probably also on win10 because it was updated this year. It's 32-bit but works fine and fast. I browsed to a folder with 40 midifiles type 1. Told it to put the converted file to the source folder and add a zero to the filename. The whole folder was done within a second. This is a page with free midi chord progressions you then could import to ripchord. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MIDI_files_of_chord_progressions ADDED May28: Info from user Michael A.D. You are not limited to one keypress. So you might set up basic chords that one finger plays and upper extensions that another finger could play. RipChord is also great fun feeding into Chord Potion. PS. Did you know that someone collected all midifiles before Geocities was shut down? 51000 midifiles. https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities-midi-collection-2009

Does anyone get chords to turn up on the piano after importing midi files? How does one do that? I can see the name but that's all. I do import genuine chord progression midi files. Those chords play fine in the pianoroll. Is there a manual somewhere? I have seen the youtube ones and they don't explain this mystery with perfect import of midi files as promised but it doesn't do anything. Are we allowed to complain? He never promised that the midi would do anything.

There's a new free synth out. It's name is Odin 2 and it's a vst3 plugin. Still in beta but already amazing. You'll find it here: https://www.thewavewarden.com/odin2 There's more info in this thread on KVRaudio: https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=542997 And you can see it in action on this YT video:

Well, i had to give it a try. I've already stepped down. There is 8 left in the world.

It's not like me to remember something so completely different to what is there now. So i can only think of one thing. It was written with another formulation in the beginning as i was one of the first persons to read about the new update.

That was not what i read. I don't know where you get the impression that i'm stupid. An expanded thought. The multinational giant MS forces you to make an account to install win10. It can be worked around but they made it hard to do so. MS have also implied that win10 would have ads. Do you think ads would not affect creative work? Does updates and maintenance in the background never affect you when you're working at the pc? Almost never isn't really a good answer.

Ok, that was bad, very bad. It was not made perfectly clear that it was a "new feature" solely for EA program.

The most common way to use the midinotes from a stepsequenser with drumsounds is to use a vst sampler. This is an easy to understand sampler and it's free: https://decomposer.de/sitala/

I'm thankful for the new rollback feature which i hope will function well. This mean i should be able to continue using CbB as long as any eventual major problem can't be traced to the windows version. Nice that someone care about me...gives me a warm fuzzy feeling... Oh, and arranger too. What do i get on my real birthday? Still, it's no waste to have better understanding of Reaper.

The reason i'm negative to win 10 is multitude. Expand your thinking. With CakewalkbyBandlab, which i like. is this movement towards an extremely small niche for a daw. A daw that is to be not solely windows only, but windows with the version 10 only. PS. To give back something positive i propose to the developers: Fork the software. Release todays version of CbB as free software. Remove the update and authentication from it and give it a slightly other name. Copy Reapers way with a notification in the center when started. But have it to be manually exited so people can take their own time to read it carefully. The notification should state that it is released as is and are never going to be updated or supported. If they want updates and support they have to use CbB instead. In that way you can continue to develop CbB as usual and still have win 7 and 8.1 users contribute to the community. PPS. Music hardware seems to be of good quality. Folks take them out from their storage and fire them up without a problem 30 years later. People like that nowadays, reuse things and not throwing them away. But you need the old software to still be around to be able to use lot of the old hardware.

It's something fishy with the given data. Microsoft employé maybe?