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Here are some of my thoughts after using Songframe for a couple of weeks.

IAC midi driver needs to be configured to use Chirp as a MIDI controller - this is documented, but was an obstacle to getting set up quickly.

Interface looks very basic, compared to cool looking DAW interfaces of Logic and Abelton Live - I know it's not a DAW but the 'kiddie' interface makes you less inclined to spend all your time in Songframe.

Adobe Air is not a good software platform for developing mac desktop apps - this should have been written in Cocoa. I understand why they're using Adobe Air - you don't have to write two versions, one for mac and one for windows, but it is slow, doesn't look good, and is less responsive to stuff like native os keystrokes. Sometimes the Adobe Air UI 'locks up' - and you can't do stuff like drag a drum loop to a songbit, the only thing that fixes it is restarting the application.

There should have the option to delete unused takes.

I don't like casio tone of drums, how you're locked into piano based sounds for composing. I haven't installed EZ Drummer, maybe that would help. I can see myself getting bored with these limitations, but maybe the ability to use different AU instruments inside of Songframe would help - I don't own any copies of third party AU's right now so I can't try this out for myself.

Ability to zoom a track needs work, it should respond to keystrokes as intuitively as the zoom tool in Logic.

i don't like it when chords turn to black rectangles because theyre squeezed into a bar w other chords.

Cut and paste from lyric tools to songbits lyrics does not work - cut paste creates a new songbit instead of just pasting the lyric into the songbit.

Why's there a fully functional word processing functionality in the Lyrics tool window but not in the Lyrics section of an individual song bit? Should have it in both places.

There should be a way to loop multiple songbits at a time, or parts of songbits, like in a DAW, instead of just the whole song or individual songbits.

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