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Someone should suggest a new piece of music software! #879513 02/10/26 08:45 PM Off-Topic
Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late Planobilly OP Veteran
OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	I now have the tools to build lots of things that I could have never dreamed of in the past. So perhaps if you're looking for some arcane piece of music software that nobody invented give me a shout maybe I can put it together. Here's a look at the music room as it sets now. [img]https://imgur.com/a/63rN88y[/img] Cheers, Billy “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: Someone should suggest a new piece of music software! Planobilly #879523 02/11/26 05:13 AM Off-Topic
Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 3,681 DC Ron Veteran
DC Ron Veteran Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 3,681	Billy, the image you intended to display does not appear in your post, only the link. The link produces a result you likely did not intend... Last edited by DC Ron; 02/11/26 03:52 PM. DC Ron BiaB Audiophile Presonus Studio One ASUS I9-12900K DAW, 32 GB RAM Presonus Faderport 16 Too many guitars (is that a thing?)

Re: Someone should suggest a new piece of music software! Planobilly #879529 02/11/26 05:52 AM Off-Topic
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Joseph Land Expert Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,063 Springfield, MO	The image opened for me just fine. Very impressive. I just turned 78 and I still remember the days of trying to slow down records by hand to learn licks on the guitar and banjo and doing the same on a reel to reel tape recorder 50 years ago. I never thought I would see the gear available to us today. I won't be around to see what we have 50 years from now but I can only imagine. BIAB2026 Windows 10 Pro (Never Windows 11!) WA6NCB

Re: Someone should suggest a new piece of music software! Planobilly #879531 02/11/26 07:34 AM Off-Topic
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DC Ron Veteran Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 3,681	On retrying (THANKS, Joseph), the image briefly appeared on the screen before being covered with popups and I saved it. Here it is. Very cool! Must have seen an earlier version of this one, as it's memorably awesome. Last edited by DC Ron; 02/11/26 07:37 AM. DC Ron BiaB Audiophile Presonus Studio One ASUS I9-12900K DAW, 32 GB RAM Presonus Faderport 16 Too many guitars (is that a thing?)

Re: Someone should suggest a new piece of music software! Planobilly #879592 02/11/26 01:58 PM Off-Topic
Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late Planobilly OP Veteran
OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	Hi Ron, I am not sure what caused the glitch. Imgur has changed and allowes multiable immages to be connected. I went back to the source but could not find the image you posted. Here is another method of posting the photos. Last edited by Planobilly; 02/11/26 02:39 PM. “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: Someone should suggest a new piece of music software! Planobilly #879599 02/11/26 02:51 PM Off-Topic
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OP Planobilly Veteran Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 2,741 Gulf Of Mexico As Of Late	I am not sure what is going on with the image issue. I tried to edit the above but could not. Perhaps to much info. The above photo Electronic Assistant is a locally hosted AI interface I developed to integrate vision, speech, and language capabilities into a single workstation tool. It provides camera capture, image loading, browser/API access, conversational chat, engineering analysis modes, and microphone-driven voice interaction, all tied into a unified workflow. The system runs against the Qwen 2.5-14B large language model on a DGX Spark, which is significant because it delivers strong coding, reasoning, and multimodal performance while remaining practical for fully local deployment—allowing fast response, data privacy, and independence from cloud-only AI services. I can change the Qwen 2.5-14B for a 72B model but it is a bit slower. 72B means the model has about 72 billion parameters. In LLM terms: Parameters = learned weights inside the neural network. They encode language patterns, facts, reasoning heuristics, coding knowledge, etc. More parameters generally → better nuance, reasoning depth, and contextual understanding (but higher compute cost). So a 72B model is considered a large, high-capacity LLM — significantly more capable than small local models (7B–13B class) but still feasible on serious local hardware like DGX-class systems. What can be done with all this is the ability to produce applications for music software that may not exist. If you think of something you would like to have, give me a heads up. Billy “Amazing! I’ll be working with Jaco Pastorius, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and Buddy Rich, and you’re telling me it’s not that great of a gig? “Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”

Re: Someone should suggest a new piece of music software! Planobilly #879765 02/13/26 03:47 AM Off-Topic
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CeeBee Expert Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 827 Germany	How about a talent generator Chris

Re: Someone should suggest a new piece of music software! Planobilly #879777 02/13/26 05:29 AM Off-Topic
Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 7,248 Rustyspoon# Veteran
Rustyspoon# Veteran Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 7,248	Predicting next chord based on previous choice from real world examples. https://www.hooktheory.com/trends These people had been around for years now and while they "lifetime" option license, their software is web based only. Not a true offline software. There are a couple of algorithmic "predictive" apps, but based on logic, not real world examples. All others are either web based or iOS. There was a quite interesting progression library app for android, but developer gone silent for years. Or how about this, interactive Riemann maps. I found them quite entertaining: https://lengua.la/hugoriemann/hugo.php?sus&dim Developer done this as a hobby, never matured to a VST or standalone.

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