Notes_Norton

Just another face in the crowd

Kiss Me Quick — Elvis Presley

Sing, Sing, Sing — Benny Goodman Orchestra

I'm not planning on this for my next vacation destination. Mine is for 'exit only'.

Waking up this morning was an eye-opening experience.

How to follow that? Don't understand the title, the video won't play here so another 3 letter song title seems right. DOA — Van Halen

↑ Could-a been Trojans ↑

Tarzan Boy — Baltimora

An expensive laxative will give you a run for your money.

Or should it go in the Puns thread?

Torn Between Tow Lovers - Mary MacGregor P.S. Good to see ||: Pwal :|| posting again.

From the same cartoonist.

That's a nice part of being a musician. Just about anything can start a song playing in your head.

Many years ago, before standard MIDI files, I used a primitive, floppy disk drive, sequencer in a Yamaha keyboard. It wrote MIDI files in the Yamaha proprietary language, as there was no standard. Standard MIDI files came out, but I was already invested in this keyboard with hundreds of songs. Then one day, the keyboard died, and I lost about 300 songs. Once standard MIDI files came around, everybody adopted it, and abandoned the old proprietary languages. From then on, I have never purchased anything that didn't save in a standard format. I bought Master Tracks Pro that saves in proprietary mtp format, but also saves in .mid, so everything gets saved in standard MIDI files. Audio gets saved in WAV or for on stage, high rez mp3. This month I am redoing a few of my older songs that were saved in Standard MIDI but an early version, before General MIDI, so I'm changing drum note numbers, and making them better. I've learned a lot about making music since the 1980s. That's also the reason I tend to rely on hardware MIDI instead of software synths. I have songs with sounds from the TX81z, MT-32, i3 and other old machines. Some of them are as old as Windows 3.1 and DOS 5. Operating systems have improved, and just about everything from those days won't work on a modern computer. But I still have those songs and those sounds. Sure, some of the sounds are dated, and a lot of them sound lame today, but others still sound stellar and can't be reproduced by more modern synths. So my sympathy goes out to all who are using the soon to be orphaned Finale. If the files are proprietary, start exporting while it's still working. Notes ♫

It's sad when a software you depend on, and especially when you have system exclusive files with, goes belly-up. I'm still limping with Master Tracks Pro on an XP computer. I try to avoid anything that isn't permanently purchased. Even then, it's not safe. Once a product goes subscription, you know they are fighting for their life and it's time to start making a Plan B.

Pretty Butterfly (No Balanco Do Jequibau) — Vic Damone