Micolithe
Agender
36 years old
Philadelphia, PA
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Last Login: 08/30/2007

Agender Enby, Trans, Gay, AND the bearer of the gamer's curse. Not a man, not a woman, but instead I am puppy.
I got a fat ass and big ears.

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Yes I did the cooking mama Let's Play way back when. I post alot about Tech (mostly how it sucks) and Cooking and Music and Television Shows and the occasional Let's Play video
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We all do what we can ♫

So we can do just one more thing ♫

We can all be free ♫

Maybe not in words ♫

Maybe not with a look ♫

But with your mind ♫


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in reply to @micolithe's post:

I tried to use LMMS awhile back when I didn't want to try to Acquire FL Studio. But I didn't learn too much about it to see what it could do, beyond piano roll stuff. It's on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

i used LMMS for a while and it is both good and bad:

the good:

  • a reasonably large amount of builtin synths and samples and effects. they could be better but they are something to play around with
  • pretty CPU efficient, all things considered
  • very flexible mixer (i found it very useful for controlling which tracks get what effects and in what order)
  • basically copies FL studio, so if you know how to use that it'll transfer some of the knowledge.
  • builtin soundfont player (surprisingly i miss this a lot in ableton)

the bad:

  • a lot of UI papercuts. this is the single largest thing i noticed going from LMMS to ableton is that there's just a lot of small UX annoyances that build up. i am not sure if these have since been fixed (the project does seem to be actively maintained)
  • vst support is spotty (works best with "simple" vsts--ie: probably won't work great with something like Native Instrument's KONTAKT)
  • automation curves exist but are really annoying to use
  • crashes occasionally, but has automatic backups so this isn't too bad.
  • MIDI keyboard support was weird and sometimes stopped working mid session
  • a lot of the presents kinda suck ass. be prepared to do most of the sound design yourself (annoying for some workflows).

ultimately: do i recommend it if you have other options? maybe not--a paid DAW is probably a nicer experience. however, for a fully free DAW I did enjoy making music in it and have successfully made 5 albums in it.