Helios.G Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Hey guys, just wanted to share a quick experience I had in case anyone else uses this plugin. I've used (and recommended on here), vst notepad for years. I pretty much can't do projects without it, as sometimes my projects can get big. So this weekend I was working on a song with 86 tracks, which on my system isn't too bad, and it kept hanging and bogging down on me. I was pushing through it, when I went to write a note down and the track hung for like a minute. For whatever reason, I thought to disable just my notepad plugs, and my track was back to being speedy. Vst notepad is vst2, and normally that wouldn't be an issue for me, cause cakewalk has a built in wrapper for those, but because it was acting up, I used jbridge on them, and still, they'd hang. So I went and found a vst3 notepad app from major decibel simply called notes. I'm not affiliated with them at all, but the app is free up to 200 characters, but it's only 1.99, so it's not too bad an investment. It immediately improved the feel and speed of my sessions when I swapped out the old note plug for this one. So all that said, for anyone who ever took me up on recommending vst notepad and has felt like their projects have slowed down for some reason, it might just be the note app. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timboalogo Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago Interesting, Helios. I use Windows 11's notepad for my lyrics and notes and am happy with it. I wonder where Major Decibel's product stores the data - there isn't much info on their website. Timbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mettelus Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago Melda's MNotepad has also been around for years and is part of their MFreeFXBundle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helios.G Posted 3 hours ago Author Share Posted 3 hours ago 2 minutes ago, mettelus said: Melda's MNotepad has also been around for years and is part of their MFreeFXBundle. I've seen that one, but I didn't want to get their bundle, but if you're into the melda products, that's a great option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helios.G Posted 3 hours ago Author Share Posted 3 hours ago 16 minutes ago, timboalogo said: Interesting, Helios. I use Windows 11's notepad for my lyrics and notes and am happy with it. I wonder where Major Decibel's product stores the data - there isn't much info on their website. Timbo I'm not sure. I work off-line, and it seems to be functioning like my other note plugin. I used to use windows note pad too, but once my projects started getting more complicated, I needed a way to write notes on individual tracks in order to keep myself organized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 7 hours ago, Helios.G said: Hey guys, just wanted to share a quick experience I had in case anyone else uses this plugin. I've used (and recommended on here), vst notepad for years. I pretty much can't do projects without it, as sometimes my projects can get big. So this weekend I was working on a song with 86 tracks, which on my system isn't too bad, and it kept hanging and bogging down on me. I was pushing through it, when I went to write a note down and the track hung for like a minute. For whatever reason, I thought to disable just my notepad plugs, and my track was back to being speedy. Vst notepad is vst2, and normally that wouldn't be an issue for me, cause cakewalk has a built in wrapper for those, but because it was acting up, I used jbridge on them, and still, they'd hang. So I went and found a vst3 notepad app from major decibel simply called notes. I'm not affiliated with them at all, but the app is free up to 200 characters, but it's only 1.99, so it's not too bad an investment. It immediately improved the feel and speed of my sessions when I swapped out the old note plug for this one. So all that said, for anyone who ever took me up on recommending vst notepad and has felt like their projects have slowed down for some reason, it might just be the note app. You do know you can add notes to every track in your project yes? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helios.G Posted 1 hour ago Author Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) 8 minutes ago, Bristol_Jonesey said: You do know you can add notes to every track in your project yes? Hey Jonesy, yes, but I always find the space for notes on the tracks limiting. Where as with a note plugin I can resize it however I like, and copy paste the plug to similar groupings that might share settings. I know it's not how everyone works, it's just how I do it. I only posted this cause I remembered recommending the older app to a few people a couple of times on here, and maybe they were having similar issues without knowing why. Edited 1 hour ago by Helios.G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol_Jonesey Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 8 minutes ago, Helios.G said: Hey Jonesy, yes, but I always find the space for notes on the tracks limiting. Where as with a note plugin I can resize it however I like, and copy paste the plug to similar groupings that might share settings. I know it's not how everyone works, it's just how I do it. I only posted this cause I remembered recommending the older app to a few people a couple of times on here, and maybe they were having similar issues without knowing why. Yeah, fair enough. Just wondering if you were aware of it, that's all. Surprising how many users don't 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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