Eric, But is there a "fully open and free software" that can used instead of LMMS ?
Toine 2012/10/14 Eric Hedekar <aftertheb...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Len Ovens <l...@ovenwerks.net> wrote: >> >> The ubuntu version of LMMS seems to come with VST support including wine >> (depends not recomends). We have had some of this stuff before and there >> has been issues with 64bit ISO builds as I recall. In other words a 64bit >> machine can load wine but the ISO still doesn't build. We had that problem >> before we went to live ISO... so there would be another problem as well. >> When wine loads it grabs the windows fonts which are free but licensed. >> The user has to ok the license. I don't know that this would be possible >> with ubiquity... Doesn't work with jackd. It may be best to leave it as >> extra SW. Interesting thing is that as installed, the software center >> can't see LMMS even though synaptic can. The sources have to be added >> under other software -> Canonical Partners and/or Independent, before it >> shows up. This may mean it is not considered to be _in_ the ubuntu repos. >> >> Also after ISO install software center can't install software until the >> update manager has been run at least once (bug reported and confirmed, >> seems not to be a US problem). >> >> >> -- >> Len Ovens >> www.OvenWerks.net >> >> > > Quite right. There are licensing issues that LMMS is currently built with > in the repos that we can't exactly include by default. It would take a lot > of work to tweak and maintain a different LMMS build, and even then we'd be > creating a reduced feature set for the end user and those who really want to > use the program would likely install a different version (or be discouraged > by our included version and not use the program at all). It's probably best > to stick with more fully open and free software, suggesting LMMS to those > interested in using VST-based production methods, possibly via a suggestion > in our help documents. > > - Eric Hedekar > > > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel > -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
