Jazz++ vs comercial software

[starber]

Just starting out, with a very limited buidget (read broke) plan on doing some keyboard work via MIDI with my PC. Looking over all the available software (esspecially HS2004) and comparing prices and features then I saw a mention of JAZZ++ midi sequencer; looked over the specs and considering it's free it looks very user friendly and certainly seems to offer a lot of very nice features at least to start out. Any thoughts/feedback/rebuke welcome.

[johnnymegabyte]

I have been using JAZZ++ on a Pentium 1 ( 100 Mhz and 40 meg of RAM ) with absolutely NO problems, for over three years. You can even run it on a 486. I am using the Soundfonts on my SB 128 configured as GS midi, for extra instruments.

I had no prior midi experience, except watching what a friend had mastered over the years with various Cubase products.

I started off by simply changing the instruments and volumes, or deleting a track, like a vocal guide. Then, I started creating my own midi's using the TrackWin and the mouse. Eventually, I got a midi cable and also use my Roland synth.

Tip : Once I created a bar, (one instrument or a few) I used "copy and paste" to make the next bar, building the song, to where I would have the intro and first verse, then "copy and paste" bars as necessary, to complete the song. Pretty simple.

One great thing is the links on www.jazzware.com for Help / How To's etc.

[starber]

Excellent! So pleased to see there are folks out there happily involved with this software. About the documentation, just wish there were a manual I could print out and have for reference purposes; guess I'll copy and paste their documentation into Word and create my own manual! Since I'm using Windows 2000 Professional I think their jazz-nt40-4.0.0.zip file should work; although it show "nt" W2K is based on the NT kernel, so all should be cool! Ever talk with other JAZZ++ users, and anyone ever consider creating a JAZZ++ section on this great web page?