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Date: Nov 9th, 2005 12:58:27 am - Subscribe
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spawnliness: Querying the Universe

Sometimes you think that you are looking at yourself all wrong, you become critical and then you relize you are human.
I often say, "I am a simple man, with simple plans". Remember that song by XTC, Major of Simpleton, that song says it all.

Some of my favorite lines.
Never been near a university,
Never took a paper or a learned degree,
And some of your friends think that's stupid of me,
But it's nothing that I care about.

Well I don't know how to tell the weight of the sun,
And of mathematics well I want none,
And I may be the mayor of simpleton,
But I know one thing,
And that's I love you.
When their logic grows cold and all thinking gets done,
You'll be warm in the arms of the mayor of simpleton.

I'm not proud of the fact that I never learned much,
Just feel I should say,
What you get is all real,
I can't put on an act,
It takes brains to do that anyway. (and anyway...)

That's me, well the love part is kind of sappy but I do love my wife and children very much, so I guess that makes me a sap......................More on that topic when I think that I will not make people sick with my boring life story.

My first computer was an Amiga 500 used for writing music using Bars & Pipes, those were the days. Staying up all night writing music, playing Sim City, programming and that sort of stuff. That brings us to my topic, music writing.

Music writing is difficult these days, I could go out to the garage and resurect my Amiga 1200, with I think it was 32MB extra RAM, then I might be able to write again. The truth is I really do not have the time and the software for the MAC and the PC sucks. Yeh, I have looked but nothing comes close to Bars & Pipes Professional. I have tried numerous demos, I bought Free Style and Retro, that was fun for a short time but those did not make it to osx and I have limited sources, can't go around buying new software with Two children and one income.

Free Style was close, real close and affordable, now I have to run it under 9.1 on my G5 IMAC and it suffers performance issues especially running Retro at the same time. MOTU the makers of Digital Performer want you to buy there $800 software (I think I just saw a sell for $400-$500), Free Style has thus not been improved and is all but removed from there site.

Here is my wish, Bars & Pipes Professional fully working for Mac OSX. I will settle for, Free Style type that works on Mac OSX but it need to be able to have effects and tools added either on the track or a single note and when you add notes the up, down, left and right arrows should reposition the note and make the appropriate tone changes when in the process.

Next time, programming and maybe I'll crack out some HTML.
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Comments: (6)

spawn2u - November 09th, 2005 Gotta a few hundred dollars? how about my cheesy javascript welcome.

frost - November 09th, 2005 Well Welcome to Aeonity, that popup gets annoying, but either way enjoy your stay. --FrosT

frost - November 09th, 2005 Yep sic me, if you would really want to make people mad you could throw it into an infinate loop and crash their browsers, but then I would have to ban you = =) --FrosT

anonymous - November 09th, 2005 It's not a making people mad thing. It's a starting simple thing.

frost - November 09th, 2005 I know, I was just messin with ya. Better that you don't do that in either sense, may have to ban javascript then. --FrosT

spawn2u - November 10th, 2005 Work in progress- here!

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