I've been aching to put the tunes in my head down for a while now, so I finally went back into looking for a decent, easy to learn and cheap music sequencer for Windows. Naturally, I googled for 'Garageband Windows alternative' or something to that effect, having heard all the best things about it. Pretty soon I found Mixcraft had recently gone version 4, finally adding MIDI support (which is the reason I hadn't even tried the first time I found out about it). I've only gotten to play with it for the last hour or so, and so far it's pretty sweet! It's very rich in features considering its price compared to the price of 'serious' DAWs, and the interface is clean and intuitive. As always the pain (at least for a beginner) is finding decent samples, but other than that and a couple graphics glitches, it's looking really good and very fun.

Anyway my trial expires tomorrow (it goes for one week but I only got a chance to play with it today) so I might as well post what I made in the hour or so I've been working with it. I think it stops being able to mix down when the trial period is over. 

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Hey peoples.

This site is now kind of workable for the first time in what, a year? Sweet.

Well since this is my first post and all, let's start with something people might be looking for: I threw together a volume indicator for Windows Vista as a way to get myself acquainted with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and because my friend Nettie complained that one was not included with Windows and the Lenovo one looks like it was copied from a 1993 Samsung television. There's a couple bugs, especially with changing resolution, but it fulfills its hefty purpose.

So anyway, here you go.