The badge below is an actual, live updating counter of how many spam comments have been blocked in this blog using WP-Spamfree.  The first time I found about about WP-Spamfree, I thought it was a hoax.  The deal is that you can remove all Captcha tests (the blurry photos where people have to try to [...]

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Recently, a friend of mine asked about transposing or working with Finale files without needing to purchase the commercial version.  I figured, since I already did some of the legwork, I could make a post about it, so here goes:
Finale Notepad 2008 gives you the ability to import and export Midi files, and to open [...]

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This is a simple utility to help you test an 8 channel speaker setup in odd-even formation. This is an editable patch, so you can adjust parameters to fit your own needs. There is a speaker icon that functions as a button for each channel, and is not the usual DSP speaker icon. [...]

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Note: This works for Max 5
Here is another utility from my extras menu. This is a cheesy way to get the window size of any patcher relatively quickly. It involves two steps instead of the usual 5. And best of all, it’s typing-free!

Just copy the small collection to the left and paste it [...]

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Note: This patch doesn’t work in Max 5 as it is now.  But Max 5 now has a CPU monitor built in to the extras menu that does pretty much the same thing.  
CPU Indicator has a level indicator using plain english, telling you when you are “Cool”, “Warm”, “Hot”, “Careful”, and “Overload”. “Overload” blinks [...]

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