Hi Tobiasz!
qtractor has one of the best PDF manuals of any FLOSS program - I'd highly
recommend you refer to that if you have problems working it out. Its linked
on qtr's homepage.
There are also a number of instructional vids on YouTube if that works
better for you.
Dan
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Tobiasz Karoń <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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