Nice! I'm not a composer, but I just started playing with LMMS the other week and thought it was cool and intuitive—even encouraged me to finally pull the trigger on that Kurzweil keyboard with midi support I've been eyeing for some time! I bookmarked this and will take a look at OpenMPT and Furnace too.

Open source FTW ✊

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Latest release is 2020 it says on the GitHub page, is that incorrect information? I started using LMMS in 2022 but I recall ditching it because I thought it was a dead project..

[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I asked about that on the LMMS Discord too, and said I had the same assumption. Apparently it is still under active dev, but you need to scroll down to the nightly builds.

I don't know why they don't update the Git Releases..

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Lol ok. I paid money to ableton when I could have just donated instead. Thank you so much for the follow-up!

[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Silver-lining: Ableton is very good and teaches a lot! Also, in case you ended up getting into Max4Live at all, it's worth checking out PlugData

[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah LMMS is decent, and its Piano Roll is actually really really good. However, IIRC I renamed some folders and it completely broke project links to my samples and was not easily fixable.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

LMMS doesn't seem to pack the samples and soundfonts into the project file when you import, so you're live referencing them in your folders, which means renaming the folders will break the links. I also learned this the hard way, and now tend to copy soundfonts I use into the project folder of each project, so if I need to move or send over files to someone else, I can copy the folder without breaking anything.