LMMS workarounds

Comment with your workaround and I will update the post!

• Stopping reverb in the middle of a song sounds like a sudden cut/stop. Fix: Automate the W/D knob to 0 over time.

• Automating an instrument track on/off doesn't save for the next time. The connection becomes broken. Fix: Automate an FX-channel on/off instead or the instrument volume. If it is crucial to you, remember that you don't have to redraw the automation curves, just CTRL + drag the controls to the automation.

• VST effects stop working properly. Fix: Save and quit LMMS. In Windows go to the task manager Ctrl + Shift + Esc. End all the processes called "RemoteVstPlugin.exe". Open LMMS and then your project again.

• Pops and/or clicks in the beginning of a note. Set the attack value higher. 0.1 for example. For the VSTs pops and clicks, Tres wrote a script to automate the "high priority" setting, which could help considerably. http://tresdev.blogspot.com/2013/03/fixed-vst-popsclicks-in-lmms-win7-x64.html

• Too little CPU crashes LMMS. Fix: 
1. Export instrument tracks as wav and put them in again with the sample track.
2. Automate the VST effects off when not in use.
3. Buy more ram and put it in your computer.

• LB302 plays a long tone when detuning. Fix: Add a very short tone just after the detuning, you won't hear it.

• The GLAME highpass filter glitches when the automation reach 0. Fix: Turn it off in that exact moment by automation.

• When exporting some of the automations turn all yellow. Fix: Save project and open it again.

Entropy v. 1.0 (Not my theme)

UPDATE: New version available: http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=show&file=4605

I want to give a shout out to the theme Entropy v. 1.0 by Vesa V (diiz). Go to the download site by clicking on the image.

Image of Entropy by Vesa V (diiz)

I think it is the best theme for LMMS so far. It is really well made. All the icons seems to be made from scratch and it all fits very well together. It is clear that a lot of work has gone into making this theme. Although it is the best theme, it can be easily improved on some points. I admit that this is the first theme I will give constructive criticism to, but only because it is the first theme I actually think can turn out better than the default one.
- The text size is too small, even smaller than the default theme. It doesn't save so much space for small screens, and for large screens it is nearly impossible to read.
- The blue numbers are too dark (bpm-number)
- The Beat&Bassline editor pattern field is too dark. There is really hard to differ the light grey patterns from the dark grey.
- Hard to understand when the the loop-point-button and the auto-scrolling button is on.
- The blue level lights in the FX-mixer have too narrow space. It feels like less width than the default theme. Watching the levels is crucial, and the FX-mixer window cannot get any larger, so we need to have nice and broad level lights.
- The icons could be left unchanged, just thought I would mention that i don't think the save button look as a floppy disk at all. That is a world standard. The icon now is after my opinion too complex.

artlu (LMMS artist)

Listen to artlu

OH MY! Artemis-Daren Clark Austin is a genius. Chiptune, dubstep, house, electro. He is a gamer and label his songs "game" 90% of the time, but who cares what genre it is as long as it sounds amazing! I really like that it seems to be a hidden melancholy in all of his songs, it is beautiful. There is nothing hard style with this. It is plain awesomeness. I guess it sometimes could be too calm and beautiful for some people, but the good drumbeats complete the tunes in a such way that it just has to be interesting for most people.

The atmosphere in his songs seems to describe a barren, hostile, deserted environment in outer space. A lot of nice echo, long tones from background pads, a very cool arpeggio sound sometimes sliding (I think he use Nexus VSTi for this now), sharp and rough synths (often glitching), other mechanical sounds and then he tops it with the drumbeat which never fails. Although it seems like very calm music, it is made in a very creative way and actually pretty exciting. Mastering and mixing could sometimes be better, at the same time he is so much better than me... AMAZING

artlu on Soundcloud