I think the only way to tackle Apple's app redundancy policy (where just about every app that is older than a few months has to be made redundant with each update and the developer has to come out of retirement and run behind Apple to re-code it or spend $$$$ to code a 64bit version of it) is use the free VirtualBox with Windows (you can get a Window 10 product key on eBay cheap for a new install only) and use the Windows version of the app, use VirtualBox with an older version of Mac maybe with Rosetta even for PPC apps. If you don't mind paying for a virtual machine look at Run 32-bit apps on Catalina with Parallels Desktop®
Finally I see some perks in not upgrading my Mac's OS for so long
No "security" issues to stop me here, ta
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By the way, Pipeline, his MyJazzband thing sounds really cool but all his links seem to be dead, if you managed to grab them before they went down or know of alternative places to find them?
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They are in the first post as an attachment ChartTranslate_Win-Mac-Lin.zip.mp4 But the links seem to still be working I think you had an issue with the browser you were another time, unless his server was down.
That service his blog refers to hasn't been up for weeks now, so I took that for simply n/a anymore at all. I'll see what your link gives me, thanks.
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The links were down a while back, I let him know and he fixed them. Try clearing the cache Apple + R or command + R or right click the refresh button or ctrl + F5.
Interesting but still no show for me. Whenever I try click on his .zip link for MJB lite, I just keep getting the same triangle alert page with the text
Haven't gotten around to checking the actual contents of your file however, things getting a bit hectic with my current project.
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I think you may have misunderstood me, I got that application just fine. It's the MyJazzBand application that he talks about which I can't seem to get a hold of, neither the Lite version nor the (presumably) 'full' version.
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There is one here https://macdownload.informer.com/myjazzband/ Andrew is very helpful you can contact him sixthhappiness(at)gmail.com I told him about the dead links for the chart translator and he fixed them.
MyJazzBand is a MIDI jazz accompaniment generation application that incorporates intelligent jazz chord and scale analysis, a modern native Mac OS X Cocoa user interface, Band-in-a-Box file format compatibility, and much more. MyJazzBand can import chord sequences from Band-in-a-Box files. This lets you use BIAB files you already have and the large number of BIAB "real-books" you can download from the Internet.
That helps! The one thing I did not have in this latest reply was how to get a hold of the man himself. So with that new piece of information I can get out of your hair about this whole thing now and move forward on my own, thanks
Oh, and I've read that quoted outline you've included about the program already too, it cites precisely why I'm so interested in getting it in the first place
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Thanks for putting me back onto that ! the download links are fixed now https://sixthhappiness.github.io/articles/myjazzband-2-lite/index.html I can add that to Reaper to generate up jazz tracks from user input chords. I tried it on Win10 worked fine, not working on 10.9 or 10.14 (suppose to work on Tiger 10.4), I think you have 10.9 I sent Andrew the error and ask if it's an easy fix or a major issue. Let's hope it's a simple fix !
It works like the chart translator just drag the SGU MGU or text file on mjb2lite.exe/app and it will create a jazz midi file.
I uploaded (below) some midi samples converted from some SGUs dragged onto mjb2lite.exe there's also Blues #40 from the text info below and the apps that I will update if the Mac version is fixed.
Quote:
MYJAZZBAND 2 LITE
MyJazzBand 2 Lite (MJB2Lite) is a complete rewrite of my shareware program MyJazzBand. MyJazzBand, now discontinued, was a MIDI application for generating jazz accompaniments. MJB2Lite has been written as a prototype for testing composition algorithms that will be used in MyJazzBand 2, a shareware program that I hope to build and release in the future.
Information about and downloads for MJB2Lite can be found at my website:
Please ask questions about and discuss the MJB2Lite program on the bulletin board at that website,
MJB2Lite is an on-going project and will be updated from time to time. I am also hoping that the release of MJB2Lite will serve as "advertisement" for my website and my future shareware. For these and other reasons, please do not redistribute MJB2Lite. The software license I have chosen for it prohibits you from doing so. I will greatly appreciate it if you provide a link to my website instead.
FILE FORMAT
MJB2Lite reads chord charts in its "native" format: text files with extensions ".mjb" or ".toe". Here is an example of the contents of such a file:
You can input your own chord charts using a text editor and save the file in "plain text" format with an extension of ".mjb" or ".toe".
MJB2Lite can also read chord charts in files written by the Band-in-a-Box program. Numerous files in this format can be found on the Web. Look for them with Google, for example:
BIAB format files have extensions ".sg?" or ".mg?", where ? is a digit or letter.
Currently MJB2Lite can only generate accompaniment for a chart in 4/4 time in a "swing" style. The style works well only in medium tempo.
USAGE
On Mac OS X, the downloaded and unzipped folder MJB2Bite should contain the application MJB2Lite. Drag and drop one or more input files in the MJB2Lite "native" or BIAB format (e.g., the included sample input file "Blues #40.mjb") onto this application icon. The generated MIDI accompaniment file will have the same name as input file, but with the ".mid" extension added to the end. The MJBLite window will stay open so you can read the error messages if there are any. To quit MJB2Lite, choose "quit" from its menu. The generated MIDI files can be played in the Finder or QuickTime Player, or imported into any MIDI sequencer.
On Windows (tested only on Windows XP), the downloaded and unzipped folder "dist" should contain the program "mjb2lite.exe". Drag and drop one or more input files onto this program icon. Alternatively, you can invoke this program from the command line:
mjb2lite <inputfile> ...
The generated MIDI file can be played in Windows Media Player (double-click on the MIDI file), or whichever program you have set up to handle MIDI files in Windows.
On other systems (such as Linux and BSD), make sure you have Python 2.5 installed. The downloaded, gunzipped, and untarred directory "dist" should contain the file mjb2lite.py. In a shell, type:
python mjb2lite.py <inputfile> ...
Alternatively make mjb2lite.py executable using "chmod". Then type:
./mjb2lite.py <inputfile> ...
If you have questions, please ask them on the bulletin board.
Brill, I'll grab the lot and have a look at all of this... you big "fixer", you
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The error is because 10.4 used an older version of python. I tried a lot of workarounds but haven't got it to work natively. However I did get it to work with Wine, so if you have Wine installed: in the terminal type
Code:
wine cmd
then change directory to the unzipped windows version, type
Code:
cd Downloads\mjb2lite-win-dist
then with the .SGU or .mjb file in the same folder, type
I'm not sure I understood all of that (meaning I didn't), but given my fairly old OS I was pretty hopeful that it would work but it doesn't After dropping the included "Blues #40.mjb" file onto MJBLite as instructed, I get an applescript error (of which I understand even less) and then have to force-quit the program to get out of it again. Is this the error you're now referring to?
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And now I find that ChartTranslate also gives a constant AppleScript error! So at the end of the day I can't use either of his highly promising programs
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Yes that's the error, 10.4 came with an earlier version of Python this is what the app is using. If you open terminal and type python --version you should get 2.7.5 on 10.9 but Tiger was using 2.3.5 The easiest solution is install Wine and they will all work using the Win version of the apps.
Ah right, now I'm with you, thanks for clarifying.
Still a bit of a disappointment, here's hoping the renewed interest in his programs from here (which are obviously quite dated) sparks his incentive for updating.
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