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[LMMS-devel] LMMS 0.4.0

From: Tobias Doerffel <tobias.doerffel@gm...> - 2008-10-31 17:59
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Hi folks,

After 15 months of hard work we're proud to announce the availability of
LMMS 0.4.0, the Qt4-based successor of the 0.3.x series. Thanks to all who
helped making up this release (especially those who kept up testing and
reporting bugs)!

Most of the core parts were rewritten and the whole application was ported to
Qt4. This results in a cleanly designed core, much better performance,
higher stability, platform interoperability (LMMS is now running on MS Windows
and Apple's OS X too), and of course a lot of new features.

Most important new features:

* New artwork and style: LMMS 0.4.0 looks modern, professional, and uniform
* FX-mixer: Now you can route the output of each instrument-track into
one of 64 FX-channels
* Heavily improved automation: Freely usable automation-tracks and patterns
* Controllers: All knobs can be controlled live by one of the controllers:
- MIDI-controller
- LFO-controller
- Peak-controller
* Enjoy SoundFont files directly in LMMS using the new SF2-Player plugin
* Create chiptune music with the new SID and PAPU plugins
* Watch your sounds with the new SpectrumAnalyzer-plugin
* Export your projects at arbitrary samplerates with oversampling of up to 8x
* LMMS now takes advantage of multiple cores/CPUs by using worker-threads
* Time signatures other than 4/4 are now supported
* Triplet notes can be used
* Render your projects without any GUI/X11 in console mode
* A selection of best LADSPA plugins is shipped with LMMS (mainly concerns
Windows version)
* Basic PulseAudio support (although ALSA is still recommended)
* cmake-based build system allowing faster builds and greatly improved
platform interoperability
* Improved XML-based file format (not readable by 0.3.x)
* Integration of the popular ZynAddSubFX synthesizer as a LMMS plugin
(Linux users will find it in the "LMMS extras" package)
* Heavily improved support for importing MIDI files

Before doing anything, please remove any old version of LMMS you've installed!
Also make sure your distribution ships at least Qt 4.3.0. Having installed
Qt >= 4.4.0 is recommended.

Basic instructions on how to get this release up and running.

a) Users of Ubuntu may want to download ready-to-use binary packages by adding

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tobydox/ubuntu intrepid main

or

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tobydox/ubuntu hardy main

to their /etc/apt/sources.list and run "apt-get update" and
"apt-get install lmms". The "lmms-extras" package (containing ZynAddSubFX
as a LMMS plugin) is available too and can be installed easily by
running "apt-get install lmms-extras".

b) Users of other Debian-based distributions may want to run

dget
http://ppa.launchpad.net/tobydox/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lmms/lmms_0.4.0~ppa-1.dsc
--build

If all build dependencies are met you'll find ready-to-use DEB-files
afterwards.

c) Users of other Linux distributions will have to compile LMMS on their own
which luckily is not that complicated anymore. First grab the source
tarball from [1] and extract it. Then do the following steps:

cd lmms-0.4.0
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install

After running the cmake command you should look at the summary page which
tells you about missing dependencies. It's desirable to have all of them
installed to fully enjoy LMMS. After issueing the last command you should
be able to run LMMS by invoking "lmms".

d) Users of Apple's OS X basically will have to do the same as described
in c) except that you will have to install xcode and macports before.
A recent installation of Qt4 (>= 4.3.0) is required as well

e) Users of MS Windows simply have to grab the installer from [1] and launch
it. An optimized build for 64 bit Windows (hopefully) will be available
soon.

Now enjoy LMMS! If you encounter any bugs, please submit them at our
bugtracker [2]. If you made a cool song with LMMS it'd be great if you'd
share it with the community by uploading it to the LMMS Sharing Platform
(LSP)at [3].

More information is available at [4].

Greetings from a happy
Toby and LMMS developer team

[1] https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105168
[2] https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=105168&atid=640434
[3] http://lmms.sourceforge.net/lsp.php
[4] http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/

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[LMMS-devel] LMMS 0.4.0	Stephane Thomas <sthomas@ne...>

Re: [LMMS-devel] LMMS 0.4.0

From: Paul Giblock <drfaygo@gm...> - 2007-11-08 19:55

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Stephane -

Thanks for your continuing testing. Do you have trouble with ALL
0.3.xsongs? I can load some of mine, but not others. Hopefully
someone
knows how to track this one down. Looks like something in QVariant, I don't
know for sure.

2) In the "save project" dialog, the OK button to save the file is labelled
> "Ouvrir" ("Open" in french)...
>

Yeah, Javier just reimplemented the File dialogs. I guess he didn't notice
that one. Good catch.

> 3) In the triple oscillator dialog, the font size of the labels of "freq
> x100" and "mod-env" buttons is too big.

Yeah, and in a few other plugins, the layout is messed up. I think we are
saving this as an exercise for when we split the UI from the instruments.

4) The layout of knobs in the "Controls" dialog of an effect plugin is.... ?
> Not done yet maybe :)
>

I'm not sure what you are referring to.

> 5) I confirm the UI is "very" slow, so slow than it can quickly become
> unusable, I hope you will find a solution to this. It seems to be a wired
> and hard to resolve issue :/

Good - I'm not the only one then. Could you look at the output of the "top"
command in the shell? Particularly with it sorted by CPU (use the '<' and
'>' keys to choose column to sort by)?
What is CPU usage like for "lmms" and for "X"/"XOrg"? Is it still terrible
even with a 'New' project? What about after you start removing instruments?

-Paul

Re: [LMMS-devel] LMMS 0.4.0

From: <sthomas@ne...> - 2007-11-08 21:52

Hi,

> Do you have trouble with ALL
> 0.3.xsongs? I can load some of mine, but not others.

I tested only three projects. I will test some others soon.

>> 3) In the triple oscillator dialog, the font size of the labels of "freq
>> x100" and "mod-env" buttons is too big.
>
>
> Yeah, and in a few other plugins, the layout is messed up. I think we are
> saving this as an exercise for when we split the UI from the instruments.

Good idea.

>
> 4) The layout of knobs in the "Controls" dialog of an effect plugin is....
> ?
>> Not done yet maybe :)
>>
>
> I'm not sure what you are referring to.

In the instrument window, in the effects tab, all plugins have a
"Controls" button to show a window with the knobs to control value for
plugin. I am talking of the layout of this second window. I test two
plugins, each time I was only able to touch one of the plugin knobs. The
bottom right one maybe.
I guess all this layout issues should be fixed after the UI/Instrument
separation but in revision 576, ladspa plugins are not usable at all.

>
>
>> 5) I confirm the UI is "very" slow, so slow than it can quickly become
>> unusable, I hope you will find a solution to this. It seems to be a
>> wired
>> and hard to resolve issue :/
>
>
> Good - I'm not the only one then. Could you look at the output of the
> "top"
> command in the shell? Particularly with it sorted by CPU (use the '<' and
> '>' keys to choose column to sort by)?
> What is CPU usage like for "lmms" and for "X"/"XOrg"? Is it still
> terrible
> even with a 'New' project? What about after you start removing
> instruments?
>

Already did a quick top but I've been too lazy to go further and report,
because I thought it wouldn't be helpful :)

I have the lmms process at 10% and X always very solicited, maybe 60-90%...

I'll do some other test later,

Have a nice evening.

Stéphane

[LMMS-devel] LMMS 0.4.0

From: Tobias Doerffel <tobias.doerffel@gm...> - 2008-10-31 17:59

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