[LMMS-devel] Hello LMMS list

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Hi guys, happy new LMMS member joining the list.

Im slowly diving into development now, but its slow progress. Im an
experienced C/C+ coder, and would love to be able to contribute to LMMS
and other Linux music applications.

I have LMMS running on a couple of machines so far :
- PCLinuxOS via synaptic .. just works.
- 64bit build on my Gentoo work machine, AMD64, compiled with VST
plugins.  Emerge didnt quite work, but building from SVN sources wasnt
too hard. (just had to copy the aeffects.h file from the VSTSDK to
/usr/include)

Im not supposed to be composing music at 'work', but it was an
interesting exersize anyway.


Im also a total music nOOb, so LMMS is good for me in a way in that it
is finally teaching me a lot of stuff that I didnt fully understand when
I got to play with CDJ1000's and mixing decks. I thought it sounded cool
at the time, but maybe that was the alcohol taking effect - dont know.
Computers seem a lot more natural to me than musical instruments
somehow. Im sure Im not alone in thinking that.

My interests as far as linux and music are :
- Psytrance
- Manually editing small samples with Audacity
- Composing basic loops and basslines with LMMS
- Sinple song composition with LMMS
- Live mixing with ... ?????

The live mixing thing is a real hurdle - Mixxx and TerminatorX seem like
steps in the right direction, its not too hard to beat match and
crossfade between tracks - but what I REALLY want there is the ability
to throw live effects in there as Im mixing, and do it all from the
computer.

One day, I would LOVE to DJ a house party using ONLY a low end linux
computer (no additional mixing decks, million-dollar soundcards, etc),
and have it so that nobody could tell the difference. I believe it is
perfectly possible. Oh well - back to composition for now.

Anyway .. Just saying Hi and wondering who else is out there.

Is the development list just for talking about coding issues with LMMS,
or is it more open to talking about coding, music hacking itself, and
other Linux audio topics that are related ?

Are there any community sites building up where people can share mmp
files, samples, mixes, etc ?  Id love to contribute to that as well, but
my first attempts are pretty crappy.

SteveOC