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A slightly newer version of Session - Version 4, from 1995 - has recently come my way from a Contact in America. It deals with some of the noted problems - specifically it is a 32-bit program, originally for running under Windows 95 (so you can properly choose, and save, the Midi Drivers in SetUp) - but ... it still has problems with some time signatures/tempos - and it keeps giving me an "out of memory" error message whenever I use it (but see below). From here you can download the self-extracting SETUP.EXE File (which includes both 16- and 32-bit versions, so you can run it on Windows 3.1 if you really want!), plus a zipped set of HTML Files (which my US Contact prepared to show how to install Session 4 under Windows XP). I actually prefer the layout of Version 1.11, but maybe that's just because I'm used to it.
On the subject of the "out of memory" error message (see above), a Contact in Holland running "Session" under Windows XP notes that if you go to the program location (probably C:\Program Files\Session4), you can right-click on the executable (Session.exe), click on 'properties' and choose the compatibility tab, tick '256 colors', click apply, and then close - and this apparently solves the problem. At the moment I can't test this because I'm still using Windows 2000 (which doesn't show a compatibility tab), but my Contact says that this tweak did the trick for him (for as long as Session 4 is running, your whole computer runs only in 256 colors, but is restored to normal as soon as you close the program); maybe it will work for you, too.
A possible alternative route to dealing with the "out of memory" error message is provided by Craig Edgar on his Website page here. He says
"I'm not a musician and more often than not I can't even spell Midi but I've heard rumours that people are having problems getting MidiSoft Studio 4.0 to work successfully on Windows XP.
"I have the solution!
"Download Solution [this is the Website's address for a downloadable 'hacked' version of Studio 4; you can also find it here] - Warning - Does not work on Windows 7 64Bit. Sorry!
"All you have to do is download the solution and install it. The installation program will install a fresh copy of MidiSoft using my solution. If after installing you find it works for you come back to this site and make a donation, I would really appreciate it."
I have not actually tried this, but ... one of my German contacts assures me it works OK.
Yet more comments about Session and its successors are provided by Bostonian Sara Kunz. She writes:
I was curious as to what had become of [Session] so I went looking and found it on a site that provides abandoned software - WinWorld. She adds:
I ... discovered [some info] about Midisoft [from] HackYa, which led me to the Forte websites here and here. Forte [is quite like Session, and] will run on 32 and 64-bit operating systems.
Further comments come from Charlie Hummel, of Waukesha, WI USA. He says Sara's link to download Session from WinWorld returns an error, but that he's found a Winworld page with downloads for Session v 1.07 & 1.12 here. However, it makes no reference to v 1.11 .
Odd on-screen scores using Noteworthy Player
Warning: if you play these Midi Files back using software (such as the Noteworthy Player) that shows you the score on the screen, you may find that some of them play OK but look a bit odd. That's usually because I had to fudge the Session output to get the tempo right (typically when it measures time in quavers [as in 5/8 time], and switches back and forth between these and other units [such as 3/4 time]. Don't worry; just don't look at the screen - read your printed score!
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