[LAU] lmms book

[Edgar Aichinger]

Am Freitag, 28. September 2012, 07:43:49 schrieb Dan MacDonald:
> Thanks for the heads up Alex!
> 
> It would seem the publishers, or at least their web masters, are (ex)
> Amigans as I got some guru meditations thrown at me when visiting that
> page! :)
> 
> qtractor has a superb free digital manual and I know Ardour has both
> some good online docs and some space dedicated to it in print form,
> like Dave P's book for one and I've found at least one more on Amazon
> that mentions Ardour, but otherwise it would seem LMMS is the first
> open source DAW (DAW? Its just a simple sequencer with a few synths
> built in- maybe not) to get a dedicated book released in print -
> right?

Not true, http://www.amazon.com/Rosegarden-Companion-D-Michael-McIntyre/dp/2915925186

Although I think this one is severely out of date, and out of print now. I bought a copy of the 
(poor) german translation at LAC2007 in Berlin, IIRC.


Edgar

> 
> I'm not really surprised LMMS is the first to get its own book as I'm
> on the LMMS list and there is a steady stream of volunteer devs
> arriving to offer there services and I'm sure this only happens so
> much compared to the other open source DAWs because it is both open
> source and has a Windows port. Mixbus is already available for Windows
> and Paul has stated A3 will be getting ported to Windows after the
> stable Linux and OSX versions are released. Although I won't be using
> Ardour under Windows, I can't wait for the Windows port to go mainline
> because I'm certain more devs will start to contribute code to Ardour
> when this happens as it will suddenly have a greatly increased user
> base and I'm hoping this will lead to more VSTs getting ported and
> some open sourced.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
> <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > It looks like PacktPub published a book on LMMS:
> >
> > http://www.packtpub.com/linux-multimedia-studio-complete-guide-to-dance-music-production/book
> >
> > Alexandre Prokoudine
> > http://libregraphicsworld.org
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