I just scanned the links, and they look useful. MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Could you use another program besides Cakewalk? Just thinking out loud. Otherwise, it would be decomposed into little pieces after smashing it in the floor by now. The only reason the PC is still alive is because I borrowed it from someone. Oh, and I thought I could try installing from my ancient original CD with some old Cakewalk version, but of course, the CD is unreadable by now. No wonder they went out of business! Did I say I HATE it? I can't because this idiotic program won't let me save anything. I was looking forward to save time by not re-programming some of the MIDI stuff. I need them for a new production I will make, but it seems I won't be able to that. The ONLY reason I went through all this crap was to be able to SAVE as standard MIDI files some old.

REALLY? A 'free' POS program that runs in demo mode that won't let me save? What the hell were they thinking? I've found some forum sites where, after 3-4 pages, there are hundreds of users stuck like me, with no solution in sight. I've been looking in the internet for a solution, but if there's one, I'll need to spend many more hours reading up on the non-ending instructions on how to fix this idiotic problem. I used Windows computers some years ago, but the UI changed so much (in a bad way) that it must be the most unintuitive thing around. I couldn't figure out the most basic things (like finding out what Windows version was installed, figuring out the windows folder structure, etc.

Naturally, I felt like I had never used a computer before. You know, those that need 40 seconds to react to opening folders or search for stuff. Installing/Reinstalling a million times, problems with some C framework I had to download from Microsoft, an installer programmed by monkeys, a HORRIBLE OS like Windoze 10 (really, I had no idea Windows 10 GUI was so terrible and annoying), and a ridiculously slow computer. Not only because of the wasted time, but all the spent effort for nothing. REALLY? A 'new' free app with a demo mode that won't let you save? This must be the stupidest thing I've encountered in a looooooong time! So, after wasting almost 10 hours of my time trying to install this stupid program in a horrible laptop PC with Windoze 10, I finally see that the 'free' Cakewalk will NOT let me save because it's in 'demo mode'. Yes, this will be a rant because I'm really pissed off.

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