Paul-Kane (LMMS artist)

Listen to Paul-Kane

From Canada this man have rolled out some of the best songs I have ever heard LMMS produce. He must be the happy-tune-king! In many different (happy) genres such as nu disco, house and electronic he succeeds and make fantastic songs. This man truly understands that it is on a computer he makes his music, and therefore it should sound like electronic. Nothing wrong with that, it is definitely the opposite. It is beautiful like hell.

Reverb, off-beat, raw bass, fade-in intros, different genres. What makes his songs so awesome? Well... everything! There is not one song by Paul-Kane i don't like... The scales, chords, sounds all make me think that he is a professional composer in disguise. One thing he actually is; a member of the LMMS artist-group Avelocity, so check 'em both out.

Paul-Kane on Soundcloud

LMMS fraud

UPDATE: Before reading this post be aware that I was a little wrong. LMMS have a GNU (General Public licence). http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Licensing. As you can see from the link the GNU GPL allows commercial distribution by anyone. "For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights." - excerpt from GNU GPL. Everyone can sell LMMS or modified versions of it, as long as they at the same time inform about the original licence and that the source code, original I guess, is freely available.

The reason I still believe this guy is selling LMMS illegal is because he doesn't fulfill all the criteria. He does not provide information on where to get the source code. The seller states at the bottom: "Any reproduction, duplication or resale of this item is strictly prohibited", but Wikipedia says about the licence "When someone distributes a GPL'd work plus his/her own modifications, the requirements for distributing the whole work cannot be any greater than the requirements that are in the GPL". He is not allowed to change the licence. There is also many obvious proofs of him not wanting anyone to recognize the software, which aren't against any law, but is suspicious after my opinion.

ORIGINAL POST:
"Someone is selling LMMS on ebay" I read on the forums. Not another one, I thought and opened the post in a new tab. The post, written by digitalundernet, included two images of the old LMMS 0.4.10, and digitalundernet wrote: 

"I found this last night while looking for a digital recorder. It angers me to see people selling open source software in such a way. Look at this screenshot from the LMMS SF page and the one they use."

The pictures was actual identical, except for that the last one had a watermark "SF Software Solutions" on it. It angers me that they sell LMMS too, I thought while scrolling down the post, and then found the link to the eBay site where I could buy: "PROFESSIONAL MULTIMEDIA STUDIO. MULTI CHANNEL SEQUENCER, LOOPS, EFFECTS, MIDI". Owallgreen was the only one who had made a reply at that time and he explained that it was truly awful and that the subject actually had been discussed on the forums before.

On the eBay site my frustration grew. It was kind of cheap, but 17 watchers! And 27 sold!! That bastard is going to pay for this. I looked around on the site to see if I could ban him or rate him down (I have never actually used eBay), but, like the last time I visited eBay because of someone selling LMMS, I did not find anything useful to ruin this guys reputation. No rating buttons, no comment field and no ban button. To the right I however found a text box where I could see that the seller was top-rated and 98.8% of the feedback was positive:

"I am unhappy with my item. What should I do?
If you are unhappy at all with any of our products please avoid leaving negative feedback and ratings and instead contact us through eBay messages..."

I also found a link to the SF Software Solutions Store. That LMMS was not the only open source project they packed up and sold, like digitalundernet also had written, got confirmed when I scrolled down and saw "3D ANIMATION & MODELING SOFTWARE CREATE MOVIES GAMES REAL-TIME SCENE RENDERING". It was Blender. On the box it actually read Blender 3D. I felt so bad. "Pro Drum Machine Beat Beats Music Generation Software. Create Awesome Drum Loops" was the disgusting name of Hydrogen.

I was sick and tired. I went back to the LMMS eBay page. There I scummed through some text until I saw a video with a black theme. Hmm. Not a theme I had seen on the lsp, and it could not be one of them either because the FX-mixer was black, which was only possible through changing the code. I had, though, seen this theme somewhere before with its blue FX-lights, probably on YouTube. So how the hell had this video ended up here? Had they added their logo on top of an illegal downloaded YouTube video? In that case I was so going to ban their ass out of there again.

As it turned out, two videos found themselves on the LMMS eBay page.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FaYTurte81c#at=22
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-0dNR2iXk3c#at=171

The one with wobbles was kind of famous actually. Originally: "lmms-dubstep-wobble-demo" by SuperLinuxAudioGuru. And don't you think SuperLinuxAudioGuru had made the dark theme too? Poor guy had no clue that someone used his material to sell illegal copies of LMMS.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kkvr2lCSa4
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QtMHodSQvg

Mikobuntu is SuperLinuxAudioGuru. Should I tell him that someone uses his videos so he can ban those videos? Probably... but NO. It is up to you! You people who read my blog! Tell mikobuntu or ban the videos yourself! Justice will be made!


If there is one thing you should learn from this, it is that you should investigate the program before buying it. If you cannot find anything on the name, that should be strange in itself... Try searching for synonyms and similar software, you might find exactly what you weren't supposed to find. Also search for plugins in the software (TripleOscillator, ZynAddSubFX) and words you find in the pictures. They usually don't take the time to change the name of parts of the program, and thus pictures will show the correct names.

Top LMMS songs all times!

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Update: Because I suspected spamming I have corrected the voting number on Dubstep age by Locomatt. Those 8 of you who voted on on this song in the time period from 04/08/2013 17:19:37 to 05/08/2013 12:33:30 may identify yourself in comments below.

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