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.