That's very good advise thank you, I will never go on the internet with it, I'll use it as a stand alone computer. I had no intention in connecting it to the internet, this laptop with Windows 7 will only be used with my BK-9, and the two are a good match, so far they work together very well .

Linux Mint is nice, there is a MIDI program for Linux called Rosegarden, although it's kind of finicky to use, but there are others too, if you can make them to work, some of them shut down multiple times without any reason, they are not very stable.

That's why I like this Cakewalk 9, it's stable, logical and intuitive, plus at some point in time Cakewalk was owned by Roland from 2008 to 2013. It might be an old software, but if it works, who cares?

Maybe later I'll switch over to Cakewalk by Bandlab. I saw a video posted by Jeremy See an internet keyboard review-expert on how to get Cakewalk by Bandlab (I'll post a link below if you'd like to watch it) and also how to connect it to a cheap Yamaha E383 and EW310. Since I have a Yamaha EW-310 that I use around the camp fire (it has batteries) I gave it a try and it works. It might be a cheap Yamaha, the EW-310, but it has a feature that is missing from the BK-9, but it's also missing from the Genos 1 that costs a zillion times more, it has (believe it or not) a built in Audio Interface, so you can record audio and MIDI directly into the Cakewalk by Bandlab with only a USB cable.

Link to Jeremy See on how to get Cakewalk by Bandlab:
https://youtu.be/ldyAMCSRvC0?feature=shared


Although my worries with Cakewalk by Bandlab, is that what if one day it might not be free. Even now you have to log into there website once in a while, otherwise the program limits the tracks, or something like that. I like stuff that always work, and the passage of time shouldn't affect them, I'm just old fashioned.


I share this link to a tutorial about Cakewalk by Bandlab, for anyone that might be interested in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee75dABG...l=CreativeSauce