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I'd LOVE to display a chart.....but I'll settle for a link.
I don't want to have to mess with melody tracks and chord charts....just wanna access existing files ...

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I would be very surprized if this was possible.

But I don't fully understand, RB already will display the Chord Chart for the song playing.

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Well ....I'm not entering chords (I know I can)....I'm creating songs using audio tracks and trying to avoid the extra steps if entering chords and melody .

Live gig stuff...conductor, juke box, etc..... although some if the stuff is done in biab and daw-plugin dragdropped to RB.....guess if I open the song file instead I save those steps.....eh?

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there was a vst notepad called vstnotesXL which became free just before the maker stopped his website, it is a very small app where you can put in text & images (jpg, etc..). I can upload it if anyone is interested. As I said before his site went down the maker said that it was free & could be distributed anywhere. There are a few sites offereing downloads of this as a .exe app, This has never been a .exe app & is just a .dll which you put in your vst folder & it will be recognized. So I would advise against downloading this from one of these sites. I just uploaded it for anyone who is interested

VstnotesXL 1.3



sorry the pic is not very good but was the best I could find on the web

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Hey now....THAT looks promising ...can't wait to get home and give 'er a go. Thx

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Dang....that is FABULOUS
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here it is in use in SONAR; made the chart in BB, saved the jpg. (Works on RealBand too)

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Your picture does not work can you re-upload it

A great software, it was very little known (which is why I suppose he stopped it) but a great asset for any DAW. I haven't found a DAW where it doesn't work yet

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Oops...can't spell my own domain name ..

I snapped a jpg of a pdf ( cuz pdfs aren't supported ) and it worked just fine.

Cool tool.

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Originally Posted By: jazaddict
Dang....that is FABULOUS
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here it is in use in SONAR; made the chart in BB, saved the jpg. (Works on RealBand too)
Originally Posted By: bupper
there was a vst notepad called vstnotesXL which became free just before the maker stopped his website, it is a very small app where you can put in text & images (jpg, etc..). I can upload it if anyone is interested. As I said before his site went down the maker said that it was free & could be distributed anywhere. There are a few sites offereing downloads of this as a .exe app, This has never been a .exe app & is just a .dll which you put in your vst folder & it will be recognized. So I would advise against downloading this from one of these sites. I just uploaded it for anyone who is interested

VstnotesXL 1.3



sorry the pic is not very good but was the best I could find on the web <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />


Please, could you re-upload this. It seems dead links. Thank you in advance.

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Musicampo, like your other post, the original poster of the VstnotesXL 1.3 link hasn't posted here in 2 years. Not likely to be re-posted. Maybe a Google search can find it for you.




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