Re: [LMMS-devel] Live playing & loop-based workflows on LMMS

[Tres F. <tre...@gm...>]

Great ideas.  Our group uses LMMS in the same fashion so I agree with all
points.

I also believe the MDI windows can cause some grief when drawing notes on
one window but pressing play on another window.  Currently, I try to
exploit the record button, but naturally this isn't always ideal.

I really like the idea to increment the loop points/markers though and I'm
very excited to hear some more feedback on it.  As you've stated, the DAW
works pretty well for composing with a group.

Here's another small change that I think would help tremendously:
https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/770#issuecomment-44207950

-Tres

- Tre...@gm...


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Vesa <di...@nb...> wrote:

> So I recently got a chance to try out live sequencing & mixing on LMMS.
> Nothing fancy, just a small party of sorts, with a couple of friends
> over. Start LMMS, put some beats on, tweak parameters, create loops in
> realtime while they're playing.
>
> I found that LMMS actually works pretty well for this kind of purpose! I
> had a couple of Monstros, a couple of Kickers and some soundfonts
> playing on loops, then tweaking the various parameters to produce
> variations... if LMMS worked better with Jack, I could have recorded the
> session and it could have actually been pretty good! Although on the
> other hand, we could also implement our own live recording functionality...
>
> Well, anyway. Based on this short experience, I have some simple and
> easy ideas on how to improve this looping & live sequencing
> functionality of LMMS:
>
> * Piano roll: Make the note preview on piano roll optional. It's a bit
> hard to edit or add notes on the fly in the piano roll, when every
> change you make produces sound which messes up the sound you have going
> on currently. Not a hard thing to implement, just a switch to turn the
> piano roll preview sounds on/off.
>
> * Loops: Here, I think we could have some new buttons in the song
> editor, to improve loop-based workflow. By loop-based workflow, I mean
> that you start with something like a 4 bar loop in the song editor, play
> it on loop, modify it on the fly, then move on to the next 4 bars, or
> extend the loop to 8 bars, etc. So here's ideas for buttons:
>
> - Move loop forward/backward. This would move the current loop
> forwards/backwards by the amount of the current loop length. So
> basically, if you click forward, the loop length stays the same, but the
> start-marker "jumps over" the end marker, and the playhead would jump
> one loop-length also, so that the playback would continue seamlessly
> from the next loop.
>
> - Duplicate current loop. Basically, copies everything between the loop
> markers, and inserts them at the end of the current loop.
> - Erase current loop. Just for balance (maybe you clicked duplicate one
> time too many). Erases the contents of the current loop, and moves
> everything in front of the loop backwards by one looplength.
>
> - Double/halve loop length. Self-explanatory.
>
> These features I think would already go a long way towards improving
> live play and loop-based workflows on LMMS. We're not going to rival
> Bitwig or Ableton Live anytime soon, but it would be something.
>
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