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Un-glamorous detective work

Finding your way through other people's software code is not the most glamorous of detective work but 'hey!'- somebody has to do it.

At the moment we are trying to track down how the 'buy now' button for a package does what we were seeking to achieve for the products but which we abandoned as too difficult. Then we need to tackle the compatibility of this contribution with the download controller. This is all looking a bit tough at the moment so we are mixing in some music if you'll excuse the pun.

A Ragtime page is in the offing with a few famous rags alongside our current Scott Joplin tracks. We have taken advantage of the latest Ravity upgrades from Luxonix. They reduce the CPU overhead and so give us more room to maneuver and enrich the recordings - looks encouraging for some of the more complex arrangements we are planning to tackle in the coming weeks.

In the mean time here is another lofi sample from our arrangement of Debussy's Children's Corner Suite - Serenade to a Doll

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