Monday 4 February 2013

The hidden LMMS world

Now I will give you music tips and inform you of LMMS artists which make great music!

I must say, LMMS is not widely known, and it was not easy to discover either when I looked around for a great program to produce music with. Then when you find the homepage, forum and wiki, you have a good start. However my searches on youtube (or soundcloud) after good examples of LMMS music rarely gets me anywhere.

Because I couldn´t find much good LMMS artists and music easily when I began with LMMS, I will give some links
here:

Janne Sinisalo Skiessi is after my opinion one of the best. Pleas notice that every Finnish guy is an expert at music. He has done a lot of small pieces which are uploaded to the lsp, and I think nearly all of it is gold.
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=Skiessi
Current name on soundcloud is syntask.
http://soundcloud.com/5in3

http://soundcloud.com/xreddor
Xreddor is the old name Stakeout Punch used, so basically his old music. After my opinion they "both" have a lot of good music on their channels.
http://soundcloud.com/evanhroberts
https://soundcloud.com/stakeoutpunch

The different artists I have found usually have one kind of style (techno or trance), but shovonrahman showed me a completely different style. House music. And it was not that boring music which lasts forever and is made with FL-Studio, not at all. This was truly beautiful.
http://soundcloud.com/shovonrahman
http://www.youtube.com/user/shovonRahman

Red Ambassador has some extraordinary songs and ways of using LMMS. Just gotta love his special ways of creating a calm and still fast song with up-beat.
https://soundcloud.com/red_ambassador

Second Flight has really grown the last year. The latest songs struck me in my heart, so I had to heart back.
http://soundcloud.com/qbgeekjtw

Raptor980 Music on soundcloud have some nice beats and interesting sounds it is worth checking out. Also good covers.
http://soundcloud.com/thekindredcollection/

Macrowave is a fairly good producer (understatement) of decent music (understatement). He continues to improve his skills and are now also doing live dj-ing. He must be the king of mastering and electronic in the LMMS world.
http://soundcloud.com/macrowave

Squatro is another finnish magician (Aatro Pakarinen). Sometimes calming sometimes catchy music, and aren´t that exactly what we all love? Maybe my favorite LMMS artist. Reminds me of that simple is THE BEST.
https://soundcloud.com/squatro

Dawid Dziedziak from Poland still make some decent music with LMMS, but beware of the FL songs he also produces :)
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=dawid123
http://soundcloud.com/dawid123d

Avelocity is a project between a few LMMS artists which can only get better and better. So be sure to keep an ear on them.
https://soundcloud.com/avelocity




New posts with yet unknown fantastic LMMS artists can be found on this blog! There gets more and more LMMS artist and we all grows better and better, so whenever I have time I have a lot o artists to show you.
PS: Also notice that some of the artists might fall into the dark side (FL-studio), but I will probably not remove their names if that happens :).

Friday 1 February 2013

Rubin and topaz theme

Building on my last theme, this theme have still been updated with some new colors and icons.

Downloadable from the lsp: http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=show&file=3056
Download (zip)

I recommend using this handy little program for making theme installing super easy! https://github.com/kmklr72/LMMS-Theme-Installer/downloads
If you do not like an element in the theme, you can find the corresponding icon and switch it with any icon you like from other themes. I am also open for requests regarding color and icon style. For example a white theme with futuristic colors?