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Thanks, I'll try that.

You put a lot of work into it, and it demonstrates in depth expertise. Thanks. Much appreciated.

To be clear, I used the $20 voucher from the Fanatical Music Magix Bundle 2. I don't know if the Producer Planet voucher would work for features, but it did work on the soundpool (from the MM app) so it might. But yes, for $10, it's worth it. Update: I tried to use the Producer Planet voucher to unlock the unlimited tracks feature and got "This voucher cannot be used for the selected item."

I had MM and soundpools I purchased from previous humble bundle deals so I bought the Fanatical Music Bundle 2 and used a $20 voucher + $10 of real money to add the Song Maker feature. Now, I can make use of the soundpools I have (but never used). I'm running into the 8 track limit of the free MM when generating songs so for now, I just unselect some instruments. Got the $1 MM Score Edition via Humble Bundle. Added some of the score soundpools listed in Song Maker. Now, I'm looking to add more of the listed soundpools. Right now, I'm having a blast just generating the songs. Eventually, I need to figure out how to change keys and chords. You can select up to four soundpools when generating a song, so it's kind of fun to have it do a mashup of different genres. Also, Samplitude Music Studio in the bundle installs instruments that show up in MM so you don't have to buy them in MM (even though they don't show up in the store as bought).

I had bought the Fanatical deal and used a $20 voucher + $10 of real money to add the Song Maker feature. I had soundpools I purchased from previous humble bundle deals. Now, I can actually use them with Song Maker. MM SE gives you three score soundpools, so I picked the three most expensive ones (compilations). Thanks. I never thought to do multiple purchases. That is quite a deal for $1. The MM SE doesn't stack, it turns out. I'll probably add a bunch of soundpools that are directly listed in Song Maker.

FreeNAS uses ZFS, and manages all the disks (software RAID). It can do RAID 0, 1, Z (equiv. to 5), Z2 (equiv. to 6). I'm running XignasNAS which is a branch of the old FreeNAS. I have a boot SSD and then six 3 TB drives in a RAIDZ2 configuration (can lose 2 drives). Anyhow, you want a separate device to boot off of, either a USB stick or a small drive. For simplicity, I would suggest RAID 1 mirrors, and adding drives in pairs (to be RAID 10).