More LMMS stuff. Reading what docs I can find seem to indicate that stability problems have been fixed since .3.* and ubuntu has .4.10 (latest is .4.13 which I seem to have from kxstudio ppa) I don't know if debian has a later version and a sync request should be done (speaking of which could someone do a sync request for Ardour? I can't as my netbook has problems right now).
LMMS does seem to have latency problems with pulse (which it will of course default to) and works fine direct to ALSA or jack. (not tested, but from docs) The only listed problems with Jack are the normal "operator doen't know jack" kinds of problems (failing to hook outputs to to a card). LMMS is not designed to record audio and has no way of doing so. Syncing a voice track recorded somewhere else is left to the user. This is not IMO well documented, but on the other hand does not seem to have been a problem with our "test subject" :) Speaking of sync... None of the docs I read (FAQs included) even mention syncing LMMS to anything else. By anything else I mean: Jack transport, time code, MTC, MMC etc. I also don't see anything that would indicate it generates any of these things. Import and export: I would like to see this explored. Is there an upgrade path? Does LMMS export .mid files or something that another sequencer can deal with? I suppose midi out could be recorded on another sequencer, but without sync, the extra work required to fix that could be a problem. Does it export those automated chords it creates? Obviously samples would have to be dealt with differently. After more checking, Export types are wav and ogg. No midi. I am not even sure there is midi ouput, the docs talk about getting an external KB working but not an external synth. In any case each track is setup for in/output separately. It's internal file format does not seem to be something standard either. Speaking of samples, there are reportedly problems importing *wav files as samples. Hmm, isn't that the most obvious lossless file format? Use FLAC. MP3 files are not supported... but maybe that is a good thing :) Wav files at least should be tested. Hmm, I seem to have been running LMMS with jack as output. Starts Jack on it's own. Jackd set with -p 128 shows a number of xruns with LMMS sitting idle. (I haven't looked at why) For those of you who are still with me at this point. None of these points are particularly bad or good. They are things to remember if a user asks questions. Should we include LMMS in US it would be good to remember that this really is a standalone application. Not only is it not designed to work with other applications, it really just doesn't have the facilities to do so. For someone like myself coming from a Linux CLI background of "app | app | app" etc. this is broken thinking. But then I have never claimed to be normal or some approximation there of. From a windows pov maybe this is normal. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
