The art of noise

Have you heard about white noise? You probably have. Imagine a piano which have one key for every Hz, if you press all the keys at once, the noise will be white noise. Now I have assumed that each key plays at the same volume. Have you heard about pink noise? Brown noise? There is a whole color spectrum describing noise! This wikipedia article was fun to read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise

What to do when the software claims it has support for unlimited FX channels?

Check it of course!

Approved, so far...

LMMS workarounds 2

Did you know that a user can adapt to a bug / misbehaviour / unfinished function in three ways? They are called fitting, agument and workaround. I bet you all have heard about the last one, though your definition of workaround is probably not correct. That was the case with me, at least.

According to Les Gasser.

• Fitting: From the word fit so you can probably guess the meaning. It is when the users adapt to the progam error by changing his own habits. Example: If an internet program is slow in the middle of the day, you simply figure out to use it mornings or evenings instead. In LMMS using fewer CPU demanding instruments could be an example of fitting.
• Augement: Again, the meaning of the word is hinting to what it means. It is when a user adapt to a program by doing extra work. Example: If a program give you wrong calculation 1% of the time, you can run it twice and see if the result is the same, cause if it is, it is 99.5 % chance it is the correct result of the calculation. In LMMS the augmenting technique have been widely used, actually you can not yet copy several patterns, you can however open a text editor and do it.
• Workaround: From working around. This means that the user adapt to the program error by using the program in a way it wasn't designed for, or use another program instead. From my experience workaround occurs much rarer than fitting and augmenting, but it is more common in use because the term is wrongly used about users adapting to bugs in general. Example: LMMS, see below.

Notice the text?! Not the regular one.

Note containers clearly wasn't meant to write text, but dividing your project into parts in LMMS hasn't been easy cause there aren't any dedicated function for it. So in that case some users have come up with another way of dealing with it. I have also seen text written with B&B squares, they managed to get the squares small by using the function in LMMS where you hold down CTRL while dragging up or down on a blank track area.

The text as seen in the Piano Roll.
Notice that the user have turned the volume to 0.

Other examples of workarounds in LMMS is when you use other programs, like Audacity, for some parts of your song production.

So the bottomline of this text, the last workaround post, was completely wrong use of the word workaround.

Dubstep in LMMS

So I know a lot of people are wondering if dubstep can be done in LMMS, yes it can. I usually provide a link to those guys too, so if you are searching the internet here are some good

• https://soundcloud.com/cubiicle/cubiicle-grenade-original-mix
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLZSeyd4-TQ
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXfaKlkyyQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-ZuSw5vlfM
• https://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=6138

Yeah, so this blog is all about promotion of good LMMS music and artists. Use the search bar to find more music made with LMMS!
PS: Genres are the same as licences, a hell. You can quote me on that. Who cares if the tunes cannot by definition be classified as dubstep? Yhey are dubby enough in my opinion, and frankly few knows what dubstep is defined as, and even fewer can tell the difference between dubstep and twostep, complextro and so on... Or are they subgenres? Oh well, a hell.

Free Software FTW

I got a sudden urge to write strong opinions. Expensive music program, go fuck yourself. I think I have settled on a vision about music and software I found really nice when thinking about it just now.
Quote my brain:

Everyone, poor and rich, as long as they have got a computer, they should have the same opportunities to use their creativity to express themselves musically.

This is not really a ground breaking thought, still, think about it. Seriously, don't read more, stop and think about what this ideal would mean and perhaps how it fails. I just thought about it (good thinking me!) and came to the conclusion that this vision is partly fullfilled. It exists many programs and devices that you can make music with and you don't need any expensive equipment. You can of course play an instrument, but we are talking electronic music production here, or else we wouldn't be here?

Also the reason we are talking electronic music production is because at some point in the process every popular song today must have been trough a computer in its making, and often most of it has been created on the computer. So in that case, you and I should have the same percentage chance of creating the next hit with a free music program, if we are somewhat decent producers of course. Point is, you don't, I don't, and no one can create the next hit in one program which is open source because there are no good enough softwares. Or so it seems, it could also be that when you get good enough, even though the programs you use are enough, they aren't enough...

A creation in a free program should be able to become just as good as a creation in an expensive software would.

I know I am writing about this like a human right, but for me, it seems unfair that some people can become famous if they got the money, at least in the music business, because people of the world cannot listen to noise and call it music. The unfairness lays, as usual, in that some people is actually better at making music than others, but they don't have the chance or money to do it even if they want. This is practically an impossible thing to correct, but I am making an effort through LMMS. Laying the basis with a program that could evolve into a decent competitor to FL studio on the areas sound and compositon. Audacity could be the mixer and mastering tool, although I feel both have a long way to go before matching any commercial software.

Ambient Blue is dead, just dead

He doesn't use LMMS, he just makes music he could have been making in LMMS, inside Ableton. Way to go.

Improved search field

I have now updated the search engine with all the new links I could find. For those of you who didn't knew, LMMS have a new place for its forum. I also gave you a lot more control over the search by adding more labels. See the picture:

Facebook search doesn't work, you say? Well, I added it anyway.

If you want to use this search engine (powered by Google), I will happily share the needed code so you can have it on your site.

New name on Program = New name on blog

Since the name of LinuxMultiMediaStudio now has changed to LMMS, my blog name has also changed. The most important to notice is that the link has now changed, so there will probably be a lot of dead links out there. If you could help telling people that there is a new link, that would be cool!

Second Flight is incredible (LMMS artist)

I have written about him before, so I should perhaps write about another artist, but I have listened to this song of his, Timepiece https://soundcloud.com/second_flight/timepiece 20 times or so, and the same goes with many of his other songs, because he simply creates outstanding music! I will rate him the best LMMS artist at the moment! And he is a steadily holding that position now. With the track Pendulum https://soundcloud.com/second_flight/pendulum I got completely dazzled, and since then he released many tracks, some of them just as amazing. Solar Eclipse https://soundcloud.com/second_flight/solar-eclipse-original-mix , Imperfection cover https://soundcloud.com/second_flight/imperfection-bootleg , and then we are back at Timepiece.

His music got a common "denominator" like most artist have. And I really love the special Second Flight sound! It is bright, happy and always interesting. Arps and many details helps too, when you try to make your song interesting, and he knows that. However without a catchy melody, bass, lead and composition, it doesn't help much with details. Incredibly enough he always manage to pick out the most catchy melody, bassline and drum beat, and it might sound dull in the start phase of a Second Flight production, still he is focused on the end product, and tweaks and changes until the final product is awesome!

So this artist has clearly found the key to make music on a really high level. He has "leveled up" if I can say that, and that justifies this post :-)

Simple enhancement or bug fixes that would make LMMS more complete

• Show when the volume clips https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/1022#issuecomment-50107501
• Add scroll bar in instrument plugins sidebar to enable readability on small screens https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/959
• Make the main toolbar one/two lines and/or some icons hide-able https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/387
• Make the Piano Roll toolbar one/two lines and/or some icons hide-able https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/64
• Add more "What is this" text, to make it easier for new users. The text should be short and informative. Short cuts are very useful to include.
• Option to add more than one FX channel at the time. https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/1009
• Using arrow keys for previewing samples and presets https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/871
• Ctrl + left-right key shortcut https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/811
• Shift + up-down key shortcut https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/810
• Search folders for .dll files https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/856
• Humanize option. It could be achieved simply by using a lfo https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/1165

Kabasa (LMMS artist)

https://soundcloud.com/kalabasa

Powerful electronic music from Kabasa. He can also make beautiful piano pieces. What I like about him is composition-wise that he clearly knows how to build chords, and sound-wise that he uses familiar and good LMMS synths. He makes different styles, but if we look away from the piano music, mostly electronic. A lot of arpeggios or long chords, interesting leads, repetitive background synths, strong and clear drums.

LMMS Facebook page resources

There's no secret that I am one of the admins on the LMMS Facebook page, and that I create a lot of the content over there. Like this image showing all plugins that will be available in LMMS 1.1.0.

It took me a while to take the snapshots of the plugins and put them into GIMP, so I thought if anyone want to do the same, I'll give you the GIMP file:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-1kciTMrTBZUTh6b0VlbG9oTTQ/edit?usp=sharing

If you have seen anything on the LMMS Facebook page you would like to work on or use, you can contact me. I will perhaps upload more content to my drive and link to it from here or other posts.

Is LMMS dying, again?

Hmm, perhaps. We have one beloved developer who have taken charge and does approximately everything on the developer side... okay, half of it, and then other devs come and go and submit patches now and then. That is of course OK, no one can demand that people will work on LMMS 24/7. It is better with a few changes each month. So in total LMMS is still moving forward.

The reason I am worried is because there is less and less activity on the mailing list, the developer mailinglist! Cause I think that when people don't answer the mails, they start to skip reading them, and then eventually never checks by. And discussions is how LMMS can evolve in a good way, how bad decicions can be avoided and how ideas and excitement is created. Luckily discussions are still alive on github!

I don't know how it will look in the future, but LMMS need more developers and involved people for sure if it is to survive. Finding developers who want to work on a music program for free on their spare time is hard, no doubt. I will try to continue the FB page, that is the only thing I feel dedicated to do and know how to do. Writing articles on the wiki takes too long for one person, so after about seven articles... I am pretty much waiting on others to write them.

Deeptone Overdose (LMMS artist)

Listen to Deeptone Overdose

This Deeptone Overdose (previously TG Complex, I think), is seemingly popular on YouTube. 120 subscribers and 3k views qualifies for a little article here on my blog. Also I like that he openly says:

I want to show you that you dont need a 500.000$ Music Studio to make music. The only thing that you need is an open source program (lmms.

He makes dubstep, electro, industrial and experimental music, as far as my genre understanding reaches in that direction. Trash guitars, raw synths, glitching and interesting drums are common sounds and effects in his creations. The drum beats are interesting and cool, he also use different percussive instruments than most artists. His style is beats, I would say, not so much tunes.

Deeptone Overdose on YouTube
Deeptone Overdose on SoundCloud

Cubician (LMMS artist)

Listen to Cubician

I found Cubician from United States today, through the cooperation with Cubiicle (previously known as Aden DeltaX). He makes electronic, dubstep, house. Inspiring tracks in my opinion. He seems to put his soul into the making of these songs, giving them their own souls, living their own lives. A lot of neat details is baked into the tunes to keep you listening, and making you want you to hear more. As electronic music tends to be, his songs are built up with repetitions, but that is a rather good thing when you manage to keep the interest high.

This is a true EDM (Electronic Dance Music) producer! Mixing and mastering is on a high level, real good! I get associations to Röyksopp and Macrowave! And the synth sounds is perfect, both raw and soft with side chaining. I really enjoy to hear such synths from LMMS. Last year I thought LMMS was incapable of creating good EDM songs, because I had yet to hear the badass synth sounds in LMMS. Now I have heard it created by several artists. Cubician is perhaps the best of these so far. Arpeggios, sweeps and other effects are common in his songs. This is party music!!!

Cubician on SoundCloud

Building LMMS on Windows

I got to make a post about this, because it has been widely known for the people I have talked to that LMMS was nearly impossible to compile on Windows. The fact that the official builds are compiled on Linux kind of supported this belief. Then Tobias suddenly said:

Building LMMS for Windows is quite easy - download required cross compiling packages https://launchpad.net/~tobydox/+archive/mingw/ and run the "build_mingw32" or "build_mingw64" scripts. Afterwards "make package" should give you a ready-to-go installer file.

He added that you need to install the "nsis" ubuntu package before using "make package".

UPDATE: I know nothing about compiling, and after I posted this post I a friend of mine once again told me it was not so easy... Luckily for you this guy intend to upload recent LMMS builds to his Google drive, and wanted to share it with you! Halleluja :3
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B49dcRGtm8vJcV9LU0xqZW81QjQ&usp=drive_web

Feedback apology

Soo, I tend to give feedback on almost every song I listen to. Turns out I am giving too much of personal feedback. If I heard your song, and I felt the drums didn't fit in a such way that I personally felt it ruined the song, I would probably have written a comment stating it on SC. That could have, and already have, pissed at least two people off, so I must of course quit with it. The reason I commented with my personal feelings was because I believed some feedback was better than nothing. "An artist would like to see how his song is considered by his audience, and through SC he can get that feedback", I thought. However If I don't explain why I said what I said (previously I thought it was implied I told my personal feelings, which is a rather bad reason as I understand now), there is no point in commenting. Also, I have been told that writing a suggestion on how to improve what I think could be improved is better, so I shall always try to do this if I write my feelings.

From now on, I will be more careful and definitely think twice if posting personal comments. Or else I will stick to general neutral comments or not comment at all. I have acted like some kind of independent judge, which perhaps is fun on my blog, but not fun when I do it all over SC. I am truly sorry to those I hurt, my intentions was good, I will gladly delete any comment you want me to delete.

LMMS for Mac

 Update: LMMS 1.1 will be the first offical LMMS for Mac. Go get it at github.com/lmms/lmms/releases

Mac users have always had the opportunity to use weeks on compiling LMMS... NOW they have the option to do it in shorter than one day thanks to Tres Finnochiaro.

CRAAZY RIGHT? I really have no clue how long it would take to compile it, I just present you with the instructions.
https://github.com/tresf/lmms/wiki/Compiling-lmms-OSX

Ooor, use the dmg file... qzindustries.com/files/lmms_1.0.2.dmg

Oh noes!

Bad news guys. It seems I have reviewed fewer LMMS artists lately, and I don't think I will manage to get back to the top level of reviewing as long as I am involved in so many aspects of LMMS as I am now. I ain't exactly planning on leaving LMMS, it is more like the opposite (hint, OMG, we'll see if it'll ever happen).

I'll probably write some more reviews, especially this summer. Beyond that I suspect nothing as I am going to university next year. If you want to try out reviewing LMMS artists you just send me a message or comment, and after I have done some reviewing on you, I'll make you a partner here on da blog. I'm going to change the title then, don't worry :)

My former userpage at the wiki

So I wanted to preserve this "biography". It tells a lot about my relationship about LMMS... Remember I wrote it two years ago :) Now LMMS is a lot better (for new users).
"
Welcome to an article about me. My current artist name is Sti2nd.

I started to heavily use LMMS February 2011. I had previously tested in on Linux but the appearance fooled me, and thus six months later I discovered a program on Windows which was amazing. LMMS is a powerful tool and after my opinion, and currently the best free DAW for Windows and Linux. I am a fan of techno, which easily can be made with LMMS, and also of instrumental film music. Instrumental music is not just looping, so I find it extremely time consuming! Calm House music rocks too though. Before LMMS I used MuseScore to create songs... and I have learned music theory through playing the Trumpet (in a band).

My thoughts about LMMS, is mainly that it could be evolved into a huge competitor to FL studio. First of all, that bastard of a theme needs to be changed, and you all know I have a reason not to like it. Then, I guess useful updates and futures should be introduced to constantly improve the masterpiece software :)

Now I am basically just fooling around and trying to help the program grow as good as I can. I have written some wiki articles, made some themes, and now I actually have a lot of fun editing pictures of LMMS. I really wish I knew C++, then I would have the chance to improve LMMS (the way I want it to). So if anyone feel the need to teach me C++, talk to me on [http://soundcloud.com/sti2nd Soundcloud] or [http://www.youtube.com/user/Sti2nd Youtube].
"

LMMS one hour challenge

Have you heard about something called a one hour challenge? It is a challenge, or competition if you want, to make a good song in just one hour. I had never attempted at such madness, until yesterday...
https://soundcloud.com/groups/lmms-ohc

Making a song in one hour? How is that even possible? I spend at least 10 hours on every song I feel is decent. If you think about it, don't you? Just coming up with, something. It is hard, and usually I don't try, it just happens. Making a bassline fit, a interesting melody, long chords, drums, buildup, all of these together! Somehow I managed to make a song, in just one hour. And it wasn't to bad either... Well, I didn't say it was good, did I?

It wasn't any prizes, it was just for fun, and I had a great time! Remember grinning and laughing a lot. After the show Umcaruje played the role as a radio host, with annoying internet problems, perfectly. Listening to the other artists songs was super interesting. Next time I'll definitively try to join again, and hope you will too! Information about these contests is posted at the official Facebook page, Google+ and other places. If you want me to notify you about the next one hour challenge or other "official" LMMS competitions say to in the comments for example :)

New samples in LMMS

Discussing it here https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/614

The idea of a new and/or improved sample library has been discussed countless times. The difference now is that it might get done, at least I too intend to make it happen. I was thinking about making a request about it myself, but unfa came first. And I totally agree with unfa.

It must be a team made up of experienced musicians with an ear which is capable of recognizing good samples. The team would select some samples, maybe 50, which then could be loaded into LMMS as default samples in FLAC format (highest quality and still compressed). All the old samples should be uploaded as a pack to the internet so anyone could download them and thus get old songs to work perfectly.

The biggest benefit of LMMS is and will always be the ability to cooperate on projects.

Listen and discover with fellow musicians

Plug.dj is a web site which lets you stream videos and music from Soundcloud live, so everyone which is in that "room" watch and hear everything about the same time. Of course the service then also provide a chat box which you then can talk in.

For musicians this can be like playing a song live for others and get feedback while the song is playing! The most notable feature is however the dj-system. Everyone get's to play the song they want! http://plug.dj/lmms-songs/ This room will probably be the official room for LMMS songs, so if you want to share or listen and discover new LMMS songs and artists it is the room for you! This depends on that someone else in the community also want it on the same time, naturally.

A fast fact

For the developers of LMMS

Experimental features goes into the master! Why? Because they are not stable (can cause bugs).

Bug fixes and tested out features can go to the stable. Why? Because they have less chance of cause bugs.

Default v.2 (theme)

So I made some small modifications to the new default theme, and surely I want to share it with all of you! It is important to know that old themes won't work with LMMS 1.0.0, but this theme isn't old!

Default theme

Changes

Default v.2

• A bit lighter/brighter
• More colors (saturation)
• Some old freshened up icons instead of modern dark ones.

Download from the lsp

Download zip

Old theme to the right, new theme below. If I get time I might make a dark theme too partially based of my night theme, but I also might wait until LMMS 1.1.0, because they will change the CSS even more and then I would have to update the themes if they shall work with 1.1.0.

Best of LMMS Vol.1 (album)

The first ever album made by the LMMS community for the LMMS community! You can buy the album and support development of LMMS :-)

Buy album on Bandcamp

Listen to the album on Soundcloud

For those of you on social media... you already know this, but I am still going to write about it. A review, kind of. I recently bought the album and must say this is high quality music! I know perfectly well that good LMMS artists produce good songs now and then, but I have never heard any of those songs together. Outstanding! It is overwhelming to hear it for real and actually in good quality. Now I understand how much Soundcloud's compression ruin my listening experience... Songs I have heard before just sounds better on this album. I am not making it up.

The album features a wide variety of genres: ambient, chiptune(!), dubstep, electronic, electro-swing(!), house, trap, trance, orchestral, rap(!), . Each song sounds different. You can't really tell that these songs was made in LMMS by just listening to the instruments and sample. If I am to say one "negative" and obvious thing about this album it is that the levels (dig deeper and you find that it is the mastering) is not even. This naturally must happen when different artists on different levels around the world produce songs independently and then put them on an album. The only solution is to lower the level of some songs, and no artist who has worked hard on mastering a song wants to lower it's level. I can tell you that. The jumps in level isn't too much of a problem, at least not when you sit back and just want to enjoy the music, like I did.

Notice that six of the perhaps best LMMS artists didn't have the opportunity to contribute their works, simply because they were the judges. Actually that means that 7 of the best LMMS artists didn't made it to the album because of this, theses six is in fact together the group Avelocity. Big thanks go to: Stakeout Punch, Second Flight, ManiaRib, Umcaruje, Raptor980 and Combustible Lemonade.

LMMS hierarchy

 UPDATE: This is far from reality. The reality as of now is that we know who can code and who cannot, and those who can code and have sticked with LMMS for a long time have the final word.

Everyone (even you) can have their say about anything regarding LMMS, through the mailing lists, the forum, social sites or github.

A leader and/or project manager of LMMS was selected just a short while ago. The leader is supposed to ease the work of developers which previously was leading the project together. The leader organizes a bit, set goals and take some decisions. Right behind the leader is a lot of people with their own opinions, so the leader have to cooperate and in the end everything are actually still pretty democratic.

The ones actually working with the software is of course the developers, and they discuss and agree on what should be developed and fixed. They take the suggestions and feedback from users into their discussions and considerations. The founder of LMMS has a lot to say in every case and usually knows best, at least up until now. Many devs are involved, but some tend to be more active than others and thus have the chance to prioritize what they think is important. Fixing bugs is tedious work (and sometimes perhaps boring), but highly important, so if you are a developer you know what you got to do. There is also a man appointed out to coordinate the GUI changes.

Superusers is the users who are more than average interested in LMMS and do more for it than most people do. People who test future versions and submit bugs, and/or help out other users in need, and/or, make LMMS themes or artwork, and/or translates LMMS, and/or acts as a link between regular users and the developing process. I for example try to inform regular users about everything LMMS related, the guys running the lmms facebook page do a lot of great work, and the ones that have taken initiative for LMMS contests and volunteered as judges has been busy lately.

At the bottom we have the users, but not really at the bottom still. This article might show who got the most power to change LMMS, but the average user is probably having most of the fun, as he should be having! I am having a lot of fun too running this blog, but even that is sometimes hard and it naturally takes time, so I can only imagine how it would be to be a developer.

Now you know more about how the reality is for the persons involved in the project. LMMS won't get better without someone working at it. Are you up for the task? If you want to get involved and don't have programming skills you can be a tester and report bugs on github, translate the program to other languages, come up with ideas for the program and for the FB-site, answer comments and help others on the forum, Google+ and the FB-site, design themes, sounds and presets and share them on the sharing platform.

Syntasq (LMMS artist)

Another Finnish music magician... Again? The phrase is cliché already! The artist name is very similar to that of syntask, so perhaps it is the same person? Yeah, according to Umcaruje and his comment, DOWN BELOW, it is only his second account. I don't know how it is possible, but it keeps popping up music makers from Finland. I love it! Like most of the rest of his/her countrymen syntask is a master of music theory. I would very much like to learn how they keep in scale and produce mind blowing songs. Maybe it is a Finnish secret.

Listen to syntasq on SC


Other Finnish music makers:

• Greippi
• Syntask (same person)
• Maddog
• Jernemies
• Psygfault
• Squatro
• Domina Carelian
• Skiessi
• Exprimamus (not LMMS anymore)

LMMS master default sound

You have probably heard all the default sound of each instrument in LMMS. I once began to wonder what the real LMMS sound would be like, what the native LMMS sound is, what all the default sounds stacked together in a mind blowing orchestra would be like. So I obviously went and did exactly that.

LMMS 1.0.0

My high expectations were not met. It was a rather dull sound. Slightly interesting of course. The first sound you notice and hear easily is the mixture of LB302, BitInvader, FreeBoy, Organic, sfxr, SID, Zyn and TripleOsc. They all play the same note and apparently have somewhat similar sound. Then you can sense the presence of Kicker, which of course is not blending with the single tone because it makes a drum kick (slide). And lastly the surprising one, OpulenZ, which because of the default preset decides to be late for the symphony warm up.

14 LMMS songs you have never heard!

Or at least it is somewhat unlikely that you have heard them. I think all of them is fairly good :)

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zzn0nvj2eY
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niLD_bmVFEQ
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGGKR5spW0
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq1StTw8YKA
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0fpaUzi6dQ
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu9bQA-UKOU
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzNfQiLmA0w
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89me0UG8E8g
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTcsEPIy8Vs
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMJvqMB2erU
11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2y3izRTiw
12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoaJcOsTi6A
13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB5svTTN8pA
14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWbis_iDZMQ

Yep, sometimes I don't bother writing artist reviews.

100% LMMS ; native instruments

If you want to see what a fresh LMMS installation can do, without any downloaded samples, plugins or effects, you have come to the right post my friend. Here are some of the best I have found. I have also found some songs which only make use of one instrument, wow, such skills.

100% LMMS

• https://soundcloud.com/avelocity/liquid-sunshine
• https://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=6054  Soundcloud
• https://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=1201
• Soundcloud  LSP
• https://soundcloud.com/tres-finocchiaro/that-hill-rev-08?in=tres-finocchiaro/sets/gunnar-kennedy-album
• https://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=515 
• https://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=3055
• https://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=5615
• https://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=467
• https://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=4528

100% Triple Oscillator

• http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=show&file=4104
• https://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=3363
• http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=show&file=47
• http://lmms.io/lsp/?action=show&file=4577

100% BitInvader

• https://soundcloud.com/greippi/rdud-r  LSP

Comment with songs that could fit into a category here and I'll update the article.

Revolution of LMMS

Revolution: A fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. - Wikipedia

LMMS 1.0.0 is soon to arrive with a lot of new features, bug fixes and new GUI. A new icon and splash screen has been chosen as well, or have been tried chosen. A few of us (devel mailing-list) stated what icon we liked the most out of the alternatives and then voted for green or orange. The new icon will look like a headphone with triangles in it and it will be orange/yellow, I think. Few knows who takes the decisions I believe, or, we are trying to be democratic, but what the outcome of  decisions are... I guess we will know when the version is released?

Will it be LMMS 1.0.0 or NAME 1.0.0? People on da list are talking about changing the name from Linux MultiMedia Studio to LMMS or a totally different name. For Linux users this makes no sense, but fact is Windows users are the biggest user base LMMS has right now and obviously the program are therefore very little connected to linux from windows users point of view. A downside with getting a brand new name is the good reputation the program has gotten will perhaps fade away... Is this a joke or not? I feel that it isn't. However I know that if we are to give the software a new name it better be better than the current one, and most names I have heard people come up with... Let's all start thinking guys!

I want to write; How democratic are this community? I wanted to write that because of the 1079 likers of the FB page I estimate only 10 of them said their meaning about the icon and is going to do so with the new name. At the same time this could be a good thing because users don't necessarily know a shit about nothing.

3 inactive LMMS Artists

Yes they are inactive and probably will not return. However their music was amazing.
UPDATE: Andi de Chigora returned from the dead!

https://soundcloud.com/rs7-1
rs7 have produced 13 sounds. I would describe the songs as electronic bordering the rock genre. Some of them are very interesting and thrilling. I can feel that he put a lot of work into these songs. They have a soul, they aren't songs produced for kidding around or having fun, they forward a message. Many of his songs builds up towards a climax at the end. This last part of the song is the best part and really awesome! I think it is a shame these parts usually only are seconds long and a tiny fraction of the song.

https://soundcloud.com/andi-de-chigora
https://soundcloud.com/aabid-muzak
Andi de Chigora from Spain was a master in using new sounds in his songs. Because he was so good at it he became kind of famous, thus explaining the 400 followers. He produced electronic few had heard before and it is extremely interesting, definitively worth checking out. Good mastering and really high quality on all of his songs. I dare say this guy was one of the best LMMS producers.

https://soundcloud.com/souler
souler from Poland made many different songs in different genres. In some of his songs he even sings. I am quite unsure how many songs of his was actually created with LMMS. I know three of them were, but the rest might be samplesongs like smallvirgin does it.

Features LMMS could have

I am writing all my ideas here and only filing some of them on Github. Also some of these are probably not good and can be done in a better way, so then it is good they aren't filed yet.

1. Copy and paste more than one segment in the song editor.
2. Group instrument tracks
3. Draw automation with path/vector tools
4. Play samples in the sample track from anywhere (at least from each bar).
5. Export to MIDI
6. Export between loop points.
7. Transform a B&B track to a normal instrument track. Makes it easier to go in and spice it up with variations.
8. Audio recording
9. In the B&B editor. Option to hide unused drum tracks so you don't have to scroll down to see the drums in action.
10. Connect a sample track to an instrument track and use the instruments (MIDI) notes to move the sound sample up and down in real time. In other words; if I had automated the green square in AudioFileProcessor it would move the sample up and down (in real time). Kind of like how autotune would control the pitch. You would need LMMS to make sure the sample don't run slower or faster on lower and higher notes than the original. Could possibly be implemented by giving Sample Track exactly that, a green button, and it's own window similar to AFP.
11. A Piano Roll Editor where you set the start (noteOn) and end (noteOff). If you set noteOff on a different note than noteOn it will pitch bend with automation. Graphics (colored lines between?) show what start and end is connected to each other.
12. Ghost Notes: See selected intrument tracks in one Piano Roll, different color.
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Gdd7171 (LMMS artist)

Listen to Gdd7171

Georgi Dobrev uses Gdd7171 as his artist name. This man is a real composer in my eyes. He has been around for some time now and has kept up with producing amazing orchestral pieces of music, so I found out that now is the time to finally let you guys find out about him if you haven't already.

His music is soothing, calming and very impressing when it comes to the composition. Violins in the form of backgrounds pads are always an element in his songs in addition to drums. The drum beat are never too strong or too weak, they blend well with the song style. Guitar, piano and even voices it seems in perfect harmony. All instruments sounds like they are real, I really wonder if that is the case!?! Gdd7171 mostly produce calm orchestral and sometimes adds trash guitars so it ends up like rock. I think the music style is somewhat similar of those of the old popular artists Europe and Vangelis.

Gdd7171 on Soundcloud

Keeping track in mailing lists

Reading mails from mailing lists can be difficult and time consuming. How do you keep track of the different topics and discussion threads? You don't, with mails.

One weekend away... BOOM

But the Internet has a solution. Lists in forum style: http://linux-multimedia-studio-lmms.996328.n3.nabble.com

LMMS wakes up, and it's a monster

HOW can I have gotten 32 new mails from the lmms devel list in 15 hours? (30 minutes later) HOLY CRAP, more messages.
What I read is going on now is that people throw themselves into discussions about:

• Project Manager (Not) Wanted. A new head of LMMS is replaced by several people working with different tasks (programming, GUI, ).
• Project migrates to Github. Github is the new for developers. All patches should be based on the new master branch. https://github.com/LMMS/lmms
• New bug tracker. https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues?state=open
• Change the name. Most people want to keep the acronym LMMS, but drop the association with Linux. Many also want to vote for a new name.
• Change the logo. Most people want to have a voting and change it.
• Improved GUI.
• Vesa accepted to act as coordinator for UI design (or all volunteers?). 
• Arrangement of icons. Move global buttons (Play) to the top bar.
• Arrangement of windows. Many want a single window mode like GIMP instead of floating windows. Suggested as an optional option.
• Using CSS. Layout could possibly be managed by the theme. (Downscaling to tablets/mobiles would be less of a problem.)
• Developer meetings. Fund a meeting with Kickstarter or use Google Hangout.
• Real time safety? One could implement a new engine called unison written by Paul Giblock which would be better for live performances. This would require a lot of work and thus it would take a lot of time from developers, so everything else would then pause.
• Portable/web versions of LMMS. I say this is bullshit. Someone, anyone, you can take the source and make it happen. Not the LMMS team. We have limited resources and even Coca Cola wouldn't make a program available on all freakin' platforms.
• New lsp. Wordpress as most likely successor. Needs to be discussed a lot more, I have not joined this yet.
• Mail or forum or both. Mail is fast and developers like it? Forums is more structured (and thus effective). New fast forums for devs needed. Mailing lists can however be read like forums http://linux-multimedia-studio-lmms.996328.n3.nabble.com.

I LOVE the enthusiasm, at the same time as I fear the devel-list is being drowned in own opinions and new ideas which complicates the actual development of LMMS. Luckily development moved to Github so pathes don't get lost in the mails.

This was unbelievable. I just sat two hours and wrote this summary for the last 20 hours. Something big is happening, much thanks to unfa.

By the way, in the middle of this the Facebook page reached 1000 likes.

Where LMMS users hide

At least 10 000 persons use LMMS, but have you ever talked to one of them? Where do they hide, you ask?

About 60 of these 10 000 is interested in talking. The rest of them want to make music in quiet peace. The "active" users live in many countries; most of them in USA and Germany, and most of them can be reached through the forums, facebook page, google+ or the LMMS mailing lists. I think there might be Spanish and Polish sites where people meet too.

Some users have teamed up. The reason users have teamed up in larger groups is to cooperate, share knowledge or help each other out with bugs and errors. The LMMS group Avelocity cooperates through Skype and Facebook. The Skype chat has evolved into a huge music chat not limited to LMMS users. There might be other groups out there like this.

I estimate that 90% of the community aren't actively participating in any of the sites above, however some of these guys are still releasing their music on Soundcloud, YouTube, lsp and other sites. Everyone of them could be interested in a cooperation, not sure they only want quiet peace but I reckon they are more interested in making music than discussing.

End note
I wrote this because of something I read on the developer list which currently is being spammed by everyone but developers. lmms-devel link. Now I have forgot what it was. Anyway it can't be bad to have a little description about LMMS-demographics.