[LMMS-devel] feature requests

[PMG <p_m...@ya...>]

Hello, I have been using LMMS for a bit now, and I've
got many feature enhancements to share with you. I
used to be a FruityLoops user so I guess most of my
request are kinda related to it. Maybe some of them
are impossible or to complicated for now, I just
wanted to share my experience (I think some of them
might have already been adressed, sorry if I repeat).

OK, here I go, I'll start with kinda User-friendly,
better user experience features. good luck :P

- In the beat/bassline editor, add a button (or
drag-menu) to change between programmed beats.

- Be able to select an instrument line (thus
copy/paste the notes to an other beat/bassline
pattern) and also select all of them (or a couple) to
be able to copy/paste a whole beat/bassline pattern to
another.

- Remember the small dots at the bottom of the steps
in FruityLoops, that move along when you play a beat?
(in the beat/bassline editor)

- This one is simply a bug, the last (16) step in the
beat/bassline editor is hidden. The only way to put a
note there is to widen the window ALOT.

-Add the slide and accentuate function in the
Beat/bassline editor.

-Another visual bug, in the song editor, the last
beat/bassline is haved in size. Very hard to operate
with.

- This goes for the beatline and song editor, moving
up and down an instrument/beatline/sample is annoying.
It would be nice to add an up/down button on top of
these windows (like in hydrogen) instead. You simply
select what you want to move and then click at the
same place.

- Add vertical lines (dotted lines probably) in the
song editor (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE)

- The samples included in LMMS are nice, bot alot of
them contain or create (I dunno really) Artifacts.
Some buzz, glitches and stuff. I will try to smooth
them out myself, but this is something that should be
worked on (or maybe its a bug in lmms itself)

- Adding level meters beside the visualisation
(because I really need to know when I peak)

- An undo/redo function

- Remember the last directory in the export file
dialog. Actually, this would be needed in all file
dialogs. Or at least, the possibility to add folders
in a "favorite directory" drag menu.

Now for a bit more extravagant and probably impossible
fonctions:

- The possibility to change tempo, also to accelerate
and decelerate to a given tempo.

- This one is something I've always craved for in
fruity loops, and that would be totally crazy. The
possibility to record button interaction in the
instrument editor. Example: playing with the cutoff
freaquencies to give a great techno feeling. I guess
this would be hard on cpu and RAM use, so i thought
that for a start, you could add the possibility to
change the instrument settings (presets) in each
beat/bassline pattern. Then again, you could add the
possibility to tweak the settings for each step, which
would really be the same as record button movements,
but less hard on cpu. Anyway, if this feature
interests you, please contact me since I've thought
alot about making the visuals and interaction
user-friendly and effective.

- This is probably to advanced for now, but the small
piano (dunno how to name it) would be great in the
beat/bassline editor. To be able to add notes more
fast, without the use of piano-roll.

Well I think this is it. Hope it's useful in the TODO
list. See ya!
PMG


	

	
		
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