Hey guys,
I appreciate all the hard work you put into this program. I tried it out
before, when I just started using Ubuntu, but back then I could not make it
work yet, now I installed it again after I learned to setup jack, I still
didn't setup the sound right - I have a learning curve before me and I am not
very computer savvy... what to say, I am an analogue person. This is some
constructive feedback as to what program needs to become much better as I would
like to see this project go viral (simply, I believe in open source software)...
Now some constructive feedback:
- Main thing to me as a user is that VST plugins and soundfonts are not quick
enough to load and that the section isn't customizable enough. This slows down
the work and many people don't realize the potential of the program. Fruity
Loops is so popular because it is easy to use. But you can top that! I believe
in you. People are used to their VSTs that they use in Fruity or other DAWs,
and to make the switch real easy and comfortable, these should be more
prominently featured and the users should be able to save project patterns and
be able to change the main section where instruments and other things are
featured, also more shortcuts to make the work real quick. What I suggest is to
have VST plugins (the list of dll files on the sidebar found in the VST default
folder, per example, to avoid digging through folders) and that one can send
them into a channel (or open a new one) with a mouse click (middle click) or
something, that they automatically open
in VeSTige with this click or that I can send them into a channel I want, not
that I have to open a new VeSTige channel first every time and then dig to
reach the desired plugin. Same thing with soundfonts. I have to open a new SF
player channel and then look for the soundfont, or worse, load VeSTige, then
look for my preferred soundfont player, and then look for the soundfont. Put
the soundfonts default folder aside as the list of .sf2 files (again to avoid
folder digging), that I can send a soundfont into a channel or new channel with
a click or two and that it automatically opens in SFplayer or the SF player
that I set as default. Also, the list of the main featured synthesizers and
players should be customizeable. That the user can make their own patterns for
certain kinds of projects. Per example, they want Kontakt5, their favorite
soundfont player, their drum machine and sampler of choice in the featured
list, instead of the default. They just
want to click them once or twice to send them into a new channel or into a
desired channel. Or simply they want to have featured their favorite VSTs, that
of course automatically open as a new channel in VeSTige when middle clicked,
or they can choose to send them into the selected channel. This speeds up the
work and is sooo much more comfortable.
Bug reports:
- Kontakt player doesn't load right. The gui loads, however when I click on
other options to look for the libraries or switch keyboard on/off and such,
whatever expands or reduces the gui dimensions, it messes up and the rest of
the gui is cut off. It is very hard to load instruments and I have to be
extracareful so the gui doesnt get cut off so I cant reach options. As it is
not possible to work with non-native libraries longer than 15 minutes (they
simply made the program that way, it goes into demo-mode if you work on an
instrument that isn't theirs for 15 minutes and you then need to start another
instance in a new channel to be able to continue). In Fruity loops I just open
Kontakt player in another channel with one click, and copy-paste into new
channel (if I have recorded a melody), and continue my work. In LMMS it gets
aggravating because these shortcuts are lacking plus the gui is messing up.
Maybe it is more customizeable than I think, I just
missed something because I am not yet well familiar with the program. I might
have missed some options, feel free to correct me. If needed, I will provide
the screenshots to show what happens with Kontakt player gui.
- Another thing, if I drag any of the windows high enough the top gets covered
by the upper menu area (idk if I explained it well), I cannot reach these
windows upper edge to grab them to move them back. The windows need to be set
to be always on top or something so this overlapping doesn't occur.
- I don't know why it happens, but just to report, upon installing LMMS I lost
sound on my headphones and I did not yet manage to return it although I tried
dozen of forum solutions. This happened the last time too and it took me alot
of time to return the sound. I still have no sound on headphones (it is working
on speakers). I suspect it would be jack and not directly LMMS, but mentioning
just in case.
Finally, do not listen to the people who bitch about LMMS or are ungrateful for
your hard work! It has a bright future, it is just impossible to catch up on
every detail at once. I don't know programming nor I am that good with graphics
to be able to help the development directly, but I am happy to help anyway I
can so let me know.
Ttyl! ^-^
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