I've tried qtractor once years ago, but I couldn't easily figure out what
does what - LMMS was much more intuitive and easy to learn for me (as a
former Fruity Loops user).
2014/1/14 Dan MacDonald <[email protected]>
> Hi list!
>
> First, I want to say that I'm happy to see the renewed interest in LMMS'
> development, I wish it the best and I look forward to seeing it improve.
> However, after reading many of the recent posts on this list I get the
> distinct impression that many people on this list either don't know about
> qtractor or haven't used it properly recently and I think thats a shame.
>
> Let me summarise:
>
> Advantages of LMMS over qtractor:
>
> * LMMS is available for Windows, OSX and Linux/BSD etc
>
> * LMMS has a range of integrated instruments
>
> Advantages of qtractor over LMMS
>
> * qtractor supports every plugin format in use on Linux. This means you
> can use fantastic synths like Loomer's Aspect. TAL Noizemaker and other
> great plugins like Linuxsampler, samplv1, CALF etc.
>
> * qtractor is not only a fully featured MIDI sequencer (complete with
> proper undo etc.) but also a moderately powerful audio production tool.
> Whilst not as powerful for audio as Ardour, it is good enough for most
> semi-pro users for audio production
>
> * qtractor now has fully featured automation for both audio and MIDI,
> complete with copy/paste etc.
>
> * qtractor is likely the most lightweight of all modern DAWs - its binary
> is barely over 1MB
>
> * qtractors dev is friendly and very responsive when it comes to fixing
> bugs. Its rare for Rui to take longer than 24 hours to fix a reported bug
> in qtr.
>
>
> As I've already stated, qtractor is Linux only and will remain so unless
> someone else steps up to do all the work to port it to other OSs but it
> seems most people on this list are Linux users so I don't understand why
> they aren't already using qtractor, presuming they're aware of it? The
> plugins I've mentioned are much more powerful than the integrated
> instruments of LMMS so that is not a draw for me.
>
> I just had to get that off my chest. I'd like to see LMMS become a real
> alternative to qtractor but as far as I'm concerned its got a lot of
> catching up to do!
>
> Best of luck improving LMMS!
>
> Dan
>
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