Hi
I'm Dave2002-lmms - and my first name really is David (Dave). I guess I'm probably one of the oldest around here - I am considered vulnerable to coronavirus, and I don't have any major underlying health issues, so you can figure that out. I have a long standing interest in music - mostly classical, but occasionally I go to jazz concerts, and have in the past played flute (quite well) and piano - pretty badly. In recent years I took up recorders, as these enabled me to play in a small local music group.
Currently we live in Scotland - way up in the north, though we have lived for years close to London, and we have also lived in other countries - USA - California, and Sweden.
I never was a musician, though I did think of becoming one. Instead I studied science, maths, computer science and engineering, and made a sort of career out of those. Kept me off the streets, anyway.
I found MuseScore because I wanted to set music for the recorder group, and it took me maybe a month to become reasonably fluent in MuseScore. Then I discovered DAWs, and tried Garageband then Reaper, and then moved on to Logic Pro X and Reaper. I still find Reaper tricky, and Logic fairly easy.
I enjoyed loking for different virtual instruments, but some of the ones I found no longer work in MacOS since Apple MacOS moved to Catalina. That's a pain, as they were working in High Sierra. I have been investigating LMMS more seriously since the lockdown period, as someone wanted to produce a virtual choir, and I wondered if LMMS could do the job. The lack of really good audio integration does let it down slightly, though this may not bother all users. Audacity is an acceptable alternative for purely audio projects, though perhaps video edit tools are a good possibility for virtual music groups. However, few tools are as free - in all senses as LMMS. I would do coding here if I thought I could, and it wouldn't take up too much time. I have previoiusly done what were at the time large software projects, but the world has moved on.
Actually doing the design and coding of software is hard, even now. Specifying what has to be done, or complaining about bugs, while not always easy, is often simple compared with actually doing the work. Even a two or three year old can be critical of software - "the roof isn't big enough, and it's not red enough, and there should be windows in it, and the windows should be higher up ...." Try this next time you design anything for a young child.
I hope to enjoy my time here, and to be a help to others if I can.