Joe,

This program is developing very well. I find it to be more useful than any of the other style players I've tried. Good work.

Straying off the topic for a bit.. I wonder if you have tried the latest version of jammer pro ( vers 5 ) Frank, and if you have, what your thoughts are on it.

Soundtrek has added some new features and it allows for user patterns that can be based on midi notes entered via a piano roll, as oppsoed to the old method in jammer 4. The algos can still be applied to vary the notes too. I like this feature, but the program is still a kind of "beta", as there are some features from vers 4 that have not yet been implemented onto 5. Also, it tends to crash occasionally. I must confess that I liked the older interface better as well, but I guess with added features comes more complexity and menus. I'm hoping that Soundtrek will "bring it up to speed", and like Joe does with OMB, they respond to user suggestions and comments quickly, so I'm betting they will. I wish there product was as easy to understand and work with as OMB is though. I like J Pro because it can be as predictable or as unpredictable in what it plays as the wants to user make it. Saves me some time editing a midifile so that every accomp bar doesn't sound exactly like the previous one. There are variances that can be applied automatically to velocity, lengths, and even note patterns too. This is why I like programs that work with algos that can vary these things for me. Doing it manually via piano roll editing is a painstaking and time consuming chore. J pro 5 still needs some work before I consider it a good tool to use though.

Joe and I had discussed something along these lines before as well, but I'm not sure whether adding algo features would or would not be useful to most of the users of his program. If it would be, great, but if not asking him to put that kind of effort into something like this ( I know it has to be a lot of work ) isn't appropriate if it doesn't interest his users or if it gets in the way of what his program is all about in the first place.

AJ

[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 07-01-2003).]