[LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

[Rob]

On Wednesday 03 August 2011 06:16, sim a wrote:
> funnily enough the one linux music making package i think that fulfills
>  the all-in-one program criteria is probably the one least mentioned and
>  least liked by the linux audio community, LMMS. i reckon you could get
>  quite a few people used to using windows music programs and they would
>  get on with LMMS.

Absolutely, it's the closest I've come to my (10 years ago) Windows 
workflow, though I've still had to pull the rendered output into Audacity 
to overdub vocals and acoustic instruments and mix it all down, just like I 
had to pull it all into Cool Edit on Windows.

I assume the reason LMMS the black sheep of the Linux audio scene is 
because of its history of glitchy JACK support.  Not wanting to do anything 
in real time that I don't have to, that's not a problem for me personally.  
The last thing I want to do is have a program complain about xruns (or 
worse, generate dropouts in my audio) because I chained more effects than 
my small, energy-efficient computer could handle in real time.  For me, the 
"everything in real time" JACK way of doing things is limiting, not 
liberating.

That leads us to the other big issue: probably most of us who are 
comfortable with LMMS were raised on MIDI sequencers and non-real-time 
effects and soft synths, not mixing boards and effects buses like the 
typical Linux musician seems to be.  Overdubbing vocals and guitars onto a 
bunch of rendered synthesized tracks is one thing, recording a bunch of 
guys with drums and guitars from scratch is another thing entirely.  

Rob