Re: [Lmms-users] New LMMS User - have many questions!

[Tobias D. <tob...@gm...>]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2008 01:49:10 schrieb Jon Decker:
> LMMS has had a very good first impression on me. I'm nothing short of
> amazed with where the project is right now, in such a short period of
> time. I'm also very pleased to see it is very FL-like, and that .flp
> file import is one of the features.
>
> Now for some questions... (I searched the wiki but could not find much
> information on these...)
> 1) Is .flp import 100% working, or still in early stages?
It imports almost 100% of structural information (patterns, playlist items, 
instruments, effects ...) while in detail it of course can't import everything 
properly - LMMS would have to be a 100% clone of FL to achieve this (which 
obviously is not our goal). As a result, neither will similiar instruments (3x 
Osc vs. TripleOscillator) sound identical nor does LMMS have a good 
replacement for all FLS instruments. However this can be worked on.

> 2) I use an MAudio Delta 1010 sound card. Right now I have tried LMMS
> with ALSA only. But in the settings, I could not change the channels
> from the default of 2. Also, for each track, I could not find a way to
> associate a track with any specific output of my card. Any suggestions
> on how to best set LMMS up for my Delta 1010?
Recent versions of LMMS do not support surround (anymore). This *might* come 
back with version 1.0.
 
> 3) I tried using my M-Audio Keystation 49e keyboard with LMMS, but
> didn't seem to get it to work. Is Midi support fully working?
I have an MA 49e too and it works fine with LMMS (except for the modulation 
wheel).

> 4) Can you record an audio track while playing back the project? (I just
> do acoustic and vocals really.. I add some synth stuff and drums via the
> sequencer but most of my work is based around recording an acoustic
> guitar, slicing up the different parts and re-ordering them to make the
> song track.. Then playing the song back while recording vocals...  Does
> this fit LMMS's capabilities?
Currently not. There's officially no recording support at all. Most of the 
code is already in place but some stuff (especially audioDevice-enhancements) 
are still missing.

> 5) I haven't had any luck getting .flp import to work. I am running LMMS
> on Ubuntu 0810 Intrepid on my master drive. My slave drive is my old
> Windows C: drive. In the settings I have set the FL Studio install path
> to /media/C:/FLStudio6 where the original FL Studio installation was,
> but that didn't get anything to work.
Which version of LMMS do you use? FLP Import filter has been rewritten in 
0.4.1/0.4.2 so make sure you're running the latest version of LMMS.

> Also, I'm confused on the VST
> path..  I'm on linux, so do I need to fill this out?
When opening VST-plugins, the file-dialog will point to this directory per 
default so you don't have to navigate there each time. Furthermore LMMS will 
search for VST plugins there to add them to the list of effects (i.e. listed 
in the effect select dialog)

> Next, just a few bugs I've noticed...
> 1) On anything complex, scrolling the song editor is almost impossible
> because it gets so slow and jerky
This hopefully will get fixed by switching to QGraphicsView for the 
trackContainerView's and its children.

> 2) Maximizing the beat/bassline editor stretches the beat switches
> across the screen.. The desired behavior would be to expand to see more
> of it.
It's ok right now I think. Adding more steps just by resizing the BB-Editor is 
a bad idea. Instead you can add steps via the context-menu of a pattern.


> 2) The wiki is very incomplete (see suggestion 1)
Anything particular you would expect? At least there's an almost complete 
manual for version 0.3.x (which still is quite usable for 0.4.x and will be 
updated some day) and IMHO most of the other pages are quite ready too. 
However you're free in contributing :)

> Overall, very impressive. I'd like to see this project progress very
> far, and even help out myself at some point!
Yeah, any help is welcome :)

toby