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 :-)