musikbear;
Your replies to me often seem to indicate that you think my questions and comments are absurd, and do not accurately reflect reality. This indicates to me that --- though you have a lot of knowledge about the technology underlying LMMS ---you have a SEVERE lack of knowledge regarding making music. I, on the other hand, have a LOT of knowledge regarding making music. Maybe if you pay attention to my questions and comments, and maybe listen to some of the vast amount of music I have made over the past 3 years, using LMMS, YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY LEARN SOMETHING USEFUL.
YES, there are MANY instruments on the market
(Kontakt and vst instruments) which offer the ability to drag-and-drop midi files from the instrument
(loaded in your DAW) onto a separate new midi track --- thus enabling you to use any desired instrument to play those midi files. Some of those instruments come with a folder where those midi files are stored, thus making those midi files available for import into LMMS. Some of those instruments have no separate midi files for them to pull from --- they generate the musical patterns within the instrument, rather than pulling them from midi files. Those instruments also offer drag-and-drop-midi, so you can drag the generated musical pattern in midi-format onto a separate new track in your DAW, enabling you to have permanent access, forever, to that musical pattern.
THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES --- here is ONE: there is a company called Realitone
(realitone.com/), a producer of
superb instruments for Kontakt. Their instruments offer drag-and-drop midi, for any lovely musical pattern generated by the instrument. Their newest instrument, called Fingerpick, can be used to create a virtually infinite variety of beautiful acoustic guitar phrases. I recently corresponded with the owner of that company, asking him if those midi files exist somewhere, so I can access them. I offered to pay for them. He responded:
"There are no MIDI files, all MIDI data is generated on the fly. So the old trick of importing won't work for Fingerpick. All is not lost! If you are using Kontakt as a VST you can enable MIDI out for Kontakt and just record the data into a new MIDI track. This works really nicely."
So he didn't really understand that I use a DAW that lacks the capability to do what he recommended. He didn't realize that there is still a DAW, in 2017, that can't do that.
Here's another fascinating example from the same company. This regards their instrument
Realidrums, which I think is the best virtual drums instrument on the planet. Check out their walk-thru video, at
http://realitone.com/realidrums/. The entire video is awesome, but you should definitely focus on the segment from 14:24 to 15:26, in which the instrument's midi-drag-and-drop is discussed and demonstrated.
Other DAWs DO support midi-drag-and-drop. And yes, some instruments DO generate midi on the fly.
(musikbear, just because YOU are not aware of something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist --- and it also doesn't mean that other people who ARE aware of it are insane or stupid)
I use LMMS because it's the DAW I started with, and because I like the way it is laid out, in a neat non-cluttered way, very intuitive and very nice for my work flow. I have used it to make a LOT of unique and beautiful music, over the past 3 years. Obviously, I wish it had all the capabilities of other DAWs; so when there is a function I would like to use, I first try to figure out if it can be done in LMMS. If I can't see a way to do it, I come to the LMMS forum and ask if there's a way to do it, and if not, is there a plan to add that feature in the future.
What I DON'T like, musikbear, is when YOU respond to those questions as if the questions are insane.
Don't do that anymore.
Whenever I ask a question, it is ALWAYS a legitimate question, which is asked politely, and for 3 reasons: (1) to increase my knowledge; and/or (2) to improve my workflow; and/or (3) to enhance my ability to make awesome music.
Have a great day
