[LAU] off topic (was: Re: ableton live in vmware)

[Brett McCoy]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Dave Phillips<dlphillips at woh.rr.com> wrote:

>> Has anyone here tried LMMS? What's it like?
>
> Hi Will,
>
> I reviewed it for LJ recently :
>
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-lmms-linux-multimedia-studio

I gave lmms a test drive last night (on Fedora 10 + Planet CCRMA) and
think it's a step in the right direction for people who want to
experiment with something quickly and not have to setup a lot of
stuff. I've never used FL Studio and my exposure to GarageBand is
pretty minimal, so not sure if it compares well or not.

One thing that was odd about it was that when I tried to set the audio
output to ALSA, it kept defaulting back to 'Dummy', so I started up
jack and used that for the output, and it worked quite well then. It
could use some enhancements to make things a little more intuitive
(like connecting a track to a specific FX bus, it wasn't immediately
apparent), maybe something more akin to the Reaper "connect anything
to anything" style of routing, or drag a track icon onto the FX bus or
something like that.

But pretty nifty little app. I don't do looped stuff much, but would
use this if I needed something like that. I haven't tried to use it
with external MIDI routing but hopefully it supports that kind of
thing.

-- Brett
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