I know you don't seem to like Jack, but Guitarix/Jack/Ardour (or Audcaity) is incredible for recording Guitar tracks.
p.s. I really liked your run down of why LMMS is so amazing. On 01/14/2014 10:40 AM, Rob Kudla wrote: > On 01/14/2014 05:45 AM, Dan MacDonald wrote: >> 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? > 1. I can build entire songs in LMMS project files, which I can then email > to other people or backup safely without adding > > $ dpkg -l >projectname-possible-dependencies.txt > > to my workflow, and have done so. It's too bad that you don't find its > built-in instruments useful, but most of us here do. It allows me to get > around the problem that the rest of the Linux audio community has tried > again and again, with initiatives like LASH and LADISH, to combat, and > they've failed every single time. So, using qtractor or any other MIDI > sequencer without its own instruments is essentially like going back to the > bad old days of the '80s for me, when I had a couple racks of synthesizers > and had to remember the patches and settings (and save sysex files, in some > cases) for each one of them in order to reconstruct a track. > > 2. I can run LMMS without remembering how to start and configure JACK. I > just launched qtractor and it immediately complained I had no JACK or ALSA > midi server running, requiring a restart after I had jumped through its > hoops. One of my biggest issues with most Linux audio production tools is > that they require you to learn a whole workflow (start JACK server, set up > audio routing, set up MIDI routing) before you hear a single note, while > with LMMS you start the program, double-click a track and hear a note in > the default instrument. > > 3. With LMMS, when you're happy with what you have, Project/Render will > make you a wav file of your song. With every other Linux MIDI program I've > used, and unless I totally missed something in its interface, qtractor is > no exception, you have to record the song in real time and hope for no JACK > hiccups, which got very, very, VERY tedious when I was in the final stages > of tweaking a track. > > LMMS is not meant to be a MIDI sequencer or HDR. It occupies the space > between MOD trackers and MIDI sequencers, having its own built-in sound > generation options that go far beyond sample playback, but totally capable > of producing a track from start to finish. I'm told this is similar to the > Fruity Loops workflow, but Fruity Loops appeared after I'd already dumped > Windows. Yes, the Unix way is to have 10 different tools connected via IPC > -- on the command line it's pipes, in the audio world it's JACK and MIDI. > That's great on the command line where you can copy and paste a huge > pipeline of commands or save them as a shell script, but when the 10 > different tools are all individual X programs, it's a huge pain in the ass. > > That workflow also impedes my creativity hugely. I couldn't get through a > single song from 2002, when I recorded my last track in the late, great > Buzz before ditching Windows, until 2009 when I started using LMMS > seriously. I have five old MIDI synthesizers in the den. They haven't been > powered up since I moved into this house six years ago, because I can do > more with LMMS than I can with any of them (a CZ-101, a DX7, an M1, and two > newer sample-playback workstations I inherited when my mom died). My piano > has been on, but I'd only really use that for input; I have piano sample > sets that sound far better and there's no analog barrier between its > waveforms and my song. > > Apart from the lack of arbitrary routing, to me LMMS is the closest thing > Linux has to Buzz, and that's what I've used LMMS to replace. When I'm > recording a song based on guitar or piano, sure, I use something else, but > usually it's Audacity because I don't need or want real-time effects. > > So, the last thing I want is for LMMS to be more like qtractor (or MUSE or > Rosegarden or any of the other MIDI sequencers I banged my head on before > finding LMMS). > > Why is this on the devel list, again? > > Rob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel -- Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. 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