I would advise to learn some music theory. The good news is that you don't have to remember most of it. LMMS knows a lot of scales, and chords, there is no reason to learn those scales from the top of your head. The scale and notes used, make a piece happy or sad. This person uses Fruity loops, but ...

.so Files are Linux files.

Vestige can't deal with those.

Carla however can, but you cant automate those yet.

With Carla I had Amsynth working in LMMS.

You are most likely doing something wrong.

Are you trying to record into the bbe editor ?
That could explain why it loops.

Does this help ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kamDECicDos&t=509s

The good old days in my book, when microsoft had not yet won, on the desktop. At work I have worked on UNIX, a cad program called cadam. Very expensive IBM hardware with a 19" monitor. Our keyboards were also special, they had some characters on certain keys, you used in the cad program. I thin...

We agree, You will learn a lot more from getting it to work on slackware. I am on openSUSE and one the reason I am not that good with Linux, is that on openSUSE I don't have too. I have even been considering to install Arch, just to get a better understanding of Linux. Fun fact, some Arch users jump...

No need to think about anything in general. Install wine, open up LMMS, open Vestige, and browse to the .dll file. The .dll can be in any folder on Linux. Downloads for example. I made a folder called VST, just in home, not in wine. I put all the vst I have in this folder. It becomes complicated if ...

From an LMMS point of view, yes.

But what do yo mean by an opensource project?
You need to more specific on what you want to do.

I fear we need somebody who knows slackware. I have this controller and it works fine in LMMS on openSUSE. Keystation Mini 32 https://m-audio.com/keystation-mini32-mk3 Its hooked up with a simple usb cable, not a true midi cable with din plugs. The forum I link, can help you better with a question l...

You can think of wine as an emulator. to run windows programs on Linux. Most VST are windows programs. Vestige in LMMS expects a windows file. A .dll file. Linux does not understand .dll files and that were WINE comes in. It translates all commands from the the windows program, into stuff that Linux...

Strange thing....I just went to add a piano.so (whatever its name was) VST, and when loading from VeSTige, it would only load either a DLL or exe. Not .so. So just for grins, I tried one of the old DLLs from when I was running M$ CrashOS. Needless to say it didn't work. :-) So does anyone have any ...