Had to sort out the same problem as the OP yesterday. Ubuntu doesn't install VST support, even if you have Wine installed, as far as I could tell it's not even in the repository. Most straightforward way around this is to install KXStudio repos (instructions on http://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Reposit...
About Alionoctis... I experimented with it a little, it's very cool, but it's kind of dark and dense for what I was aiming at. I found another synth, Art Pyrite (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4t9ts7NaQQ) The free version has more limitations than Alionoctis, but it's really a much better fit soni...
Yes, I meant background music. Thanks for the kind words and for your guide, watching it now. And it's nice to know multi-bar notes are OK. The instruments were actually all LMMS presets for ZynAddSubFx (ImpossibleDream1 for the choir, SpaceAtmo for the synth chords and Weird Pad for bassline) I did...
OK, I'm new to LMMS, new to music composing or production, I play a little guitar and know a little theory, so I'm not completely clueless, but I really need some pointers. What I need to make is a piece of spacey BGM that can be easily spoken over and looped,.. What I'm doing now is... well, basica...