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
Saturday, 31 August 2013
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
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:
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 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 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..."
As it turned out, two videos found themselves on the LMMS eBay page.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FaYTurte81c#at=22
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-0dNR2iXk3c#at=171
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.
Saturday, 3 August 2013
Top LMMS songs all times!
Welcome to an unofficial list of the top songs in LMMS universe.
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.
Do you think another song should top the list? Then you can do something about that. Vote! If you have several favorites choose everyone. Do you know about a hidden LMMS diamond? Do you have another favorite LMMS song?
Two rules:
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.
Do you think another song should top the list? Then you can do something about that. Vote! If you have several favorites choose everyone. Do you know about a hidden LMMS diamond? Do you have another favorite LMMS song?
Two rules:
- You cannot add a song you have made yourself.
- The song has to be made or remixed in LMMS.
Vote!
The list updates approximately every minute.Thursday, 25 July 2013
D&D (LMMS artist)
D&D produces music in the genres electronic, Drum and Bass, dubstep, trance and probably everything in between. Synthezisers often show up to create a raw or mechanical feeling. His DnB tracks are good! Vocals combined with chords and melodies in his songs could be mistaken as songs by a famous DnB artist. The fast tempo feeling with arpeggios creates excitement and drives his tracks forward. No calm House music this time, oh no! Fat synthesizers and trash guitars are common sounds in D&D´s songs.
Except from the track "Skytracker", "Contrast" was the last LMMS tune from him before moving to FL, I think.. Check with the lsp (first link below) if you are unsure about the production software used.
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=dawid123
https://soundcloud.com/dawid123d
https://www.youtube.com/user/dawid12301d
Except from the track "Skytracker", "Contrast" was the last LMMS tune from him before moving to FL, I think.. Check with the lsp (first link below) if you are unsure about the production software used.
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=dawid123
https://soundcloud.com/dawid123d
https://www.youtube.com/user/dawid12301d
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
The hidden LMMS world 2
Recently I have found so many good LMMS artists, that I could have written for a whole year about them in single posts. However within that time just as many new good artists would probably showed up. And thus I bring you a new list right now! Check out the first list.
Filterswept is one of the gods. He does not use LMMS anymore though, half god it is. Apart from "Redemption" everything released before and including "Helium" on the soundcloud site is gold for us LMMS fans. To be 100% sure it is LMMS, listen to his tracks on the lsp (LMMS sharing platform).
https://soundcloud.com/filterswept
http://www.youtube.com/user/Filterswept
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=Zakarra
KaplooeyRaRa. Ahh, no other songs bring tears to my eyes. Beautiful, outstanding, passionate. Synths were there from the beginning, and the harmony is overwhelming. Lately he released house too, songs with a little faster tempo.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyvnMtCfDT93UPYbgBvBPB9y98AlRHB93
MaDDog started out with trance and techno it seems. For the moment releasing orchestral and classical music. Calm and chilling, sometimes happy and funny. I found one amazingly scary and thrilling electronic song called "Evil". And hey, she is Finnish! In other words: quality.
https://soundcloud.com/maddog-15
Jah Sales created a few songs, and then took a vacation he never came back from. Anyway his music is very calm with piano, pads and violins. Very emotional. It could easily help you to sleep. It is a shame that he does not produce anymore. Also Jah Sales is the man behind the most realistic Firefly sound in LMMS up until this date. The lead sound in the song Fireflies by Owl City. Three very good LMMS artists: Red 7, Qwertygiy and raptor980 have made covers of this song, but none of them was even close compared to Jah Sales´ synth (Qwertygiy did not try reproduce the sound). So creds to Jah Sales for that. I reckon these artist haven´t even watched the video even though it was released before anyone of them tried. A sad example of how far apart and closed the LMMS world once were.
http://www.youtube.com/user/jahdgreat
Mangofrango 101 seems to be dead too, but dead people apparently make awesome music. It is a fine mix between electronic, ambient and lounge. Tons of reverb with up-beat tempo. Exiting and calm at the same time. Guess there have to be a lot of contradictions when you are dead and alive at the same time. After my opinion this is among the best music in LMMS.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Mangofrango101
Notice that Farbro does not only use LMMS, but only freeware at least. On this YouTube channel it is only his LMMS songs and of course on the lsp. Very interesting songs and sounds, ambient and chill in addition to some real groovy house and techno tracks. He definitely qualifies as one of the best.
https://soundcloud.com/farbro
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=affe
http://www.youtube.com/user/Urghel
Jernemies' Mac died, or maybe I misunderstood that title... However I will keep the sentence. His music career came to a stop on Soundcloud with that dead Mac, however on Newgrounds and on the lsp many fresh and brilliant songs can be found. I like most of his compositions, they always take surprising paths! He rarely loop throughout the whole song which keeps my interest.
https://soundcloud.com/jernemies
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/?action=browse&user=Jernemies
http://jernemies.newgrounds.com/
TRoniX is good. People called him pro after his second song. He makes party style trance, electro and house. Many of the songs are also available on the lsp, then you get to see the magic, not only hear it.
https://soundcloud.com/tronix-4
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=TRoniX
Usereg has some funky chords. House can be funky, at least french house. House is electronic, right? He now uses Ableton, "A moment before you fall asleep" was the last LMMS track from him :-( He was very good! UPDATE: He uses LMMS again.
https://soundcloud.com/usereg
That´s it for this time. Don´t you worry, I still managed to save many good artists for later! You have a lot to look forward to.
Filterswept is one of the gods. He does not use LMMS anymore though, half god it is. Apart from "Redemption" everything released before and including "Helium" on the soundcloud site is gold for us LMMS fans. To be 100% sure it is LMMS, listen to his tracks on the lsp (LMMS sharing platform).
https://soundcloud.com/filterswept
http://www.youtube.com/user/Filterswept
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=Zakarra
KaplooeyRaRa. Ahh, no other songs bring tears to my eyes. Beautiful, outstanding, passionate. Synths were there from the beginning, and the harmony is overwhelming. Lately he released house too, songs with a little faster tempo.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyvnMtCfDT93UPYbgBvBPB9y98AlRHB93
MaDDog started out with trance and techno it seems. For the moment releasing orchestral and classical music. Calm and chilling, sometimes happy and funny. I found one amazingly scary and thrilling electronic song called "Evil". And hey, she is Finnish! In other words: quality.
https://soundcloud.com/maddog-15
Jah Sales created a few songs, and then took a vacation he never came back from. Anyway his music is very calm with piano, pads and violins. Very emotional. It could easily help you to sleep. It is a shame that he does not produce anymore. Also Jah Sales is the man behind the most realistic Firefly sound in LMMS up until this date. The lead sound in the song Fireflies by Owl City. Three very good LMMS artists: Red 7, Qwertygiy and raptor980 have made covers of this song, but none of them was even close compared to Jah Sales´ synth (Qwertygiy did not try reproduce the sound). So creds to Jah Sales for that. I reckon these artist haven´t even watched the video even though it was released before anyone of them tried. A sad example of how far apart and closed the LMMS world once were.
http://www.youtube.com/user/jahdgreat
Mangofrango 101 seems to be dead too, but dead people apparently make awesome music. It is a fine mix between electronic, ambient and lounge. Tons of reverb with up-beat tempo. Exiting and calm at the same time. Guess there have to be a lot of contradictions when you are dead and alive at the same time. After my opinion this is among the best music in LMMS.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Mangofrango101
Notice that Farbro does not only use LMMS, but only freeware at least. On this YouTube channel it is only his LMMS songs and of course on the lsp. Very interesting songs and sounds, ambient and chill in addition to some real groovy house and techno tracks. He definitely qualifies as one of the best.
https://soundcloud.com/farbro
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=affe
http://www.youtube.com/user/Urghel
Jernemies' Mac died, or maybe I misunderstood that title... However I will keep the sentence. His music career came to a stop on Soundcloud with that dead Mac, however on Newgrounds and on the lsp many fresh and brilliant songs can be found. I like most of his compositions, they always take surprising paths! He rarely loop throughout the whole song which keeps my interest.
https://soundcloud.com/jernemies
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/?action=browse&user=Jernemies
http://jernemies.newgrounds.com/
TRoniX is good. People called him pro after his second song. He makes party style trance, electro and house. Many of the songs are also available on the lsp, then you get to see the magic, not only hear it.
https://soundcloud.com/tronix-4
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp/index.php?action=browse&user=TRoniX
Usereg has some funky chords. House can be funky, at least french house. House is electronic, right? He now uses Ableton, "A moment before you fall asleep" was the last LMMS track from him :-( He was very good! UPDATE: He uses LMMS again.
https://soundcloud.com/usereg
That´s it for this time. Don´t you worry, I still managed to save many good artists for later! You have a lot to look forward to.
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