Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:06 pm
Firstly, I love LMMS. I love how it's a relatively modern audio software, yet it's got some of that tracker feeling of the 90s... yeah, it's great.
Now, some things I'd like to see in it:
- UI consistency: when you're in the song editor, ctrl-dragging copies patterns. But when you open the piano roll, suddenly ctrl-dragging switches to selection, and you have to shift-drag to copy. I've got to say, this is something that really hinders my workflow sometimes, it feels non-intuitive and clunky. The controls should be same for both.
- Better automation editing: this is sadly lacking. This is probably the weakest point of LMMS, an otherwise great software. The copy/paste functionality inside the editor is broken, you can copy automation blocks but only one at a time - you can't select a bunch of them and replicate them all over.
- I'd also love (but these aren't as crucial): to be able to merge and divide automation blocks, loop automations, and attach automations to individual patterns.
- Sample tracks should play from the middle of a sample. Right now, if you have a long sample track, you always have to play it from the beginning. This is not convenient.
- State-awareness would be a nice feature: by which I mean, possibly as an option, you could move the cursor through the song, and all the knobs would automatically be set to the position where they are at that part of the song (taking also in account earlier automations). I realize however that this might be an unrealistic wish, as it seems like it'd be quite a complex feature to implement...
Now, some things I'd like to see in it:
- UI consistency: when you're in the song editor, ctrl-dragging copies patterns. But when you open the piano roll, suddenly ctrl-dragging switches to selection, and you have to shift-drag to copy. I've got to say, this is something that really hinders my workflow sometimes, it feels non-intuitive and clunky. The controls should be same for both.
- Better automation editing: this is sadly lacking. This is probably the weakest point of LMMS, an otherwise great software. The copy/paste functionality inside the editor is broken, you can copy automation blocks but only one at a time - you can't select a bunch of them and replicate them all over.
- I'd also love (but these aren't as crucial): to be able to merge and divide automation blocks, loop automations, and attach automations to individual patterns.
- Sample tracks should play from the middle of a sample. Right now, if you have a long sample track, you always have to play it from the beginning. This is not convenient.
- State-awareness would be a nice feature: by which I mean, possibly as an option, you could move the cursor through the song, and all the knobs would automatically be set to the position where they are at that part of the song (taking also in account earlier automations). I realize however that this might be an unrealistic wish, as it seems like it'd be quite a complex feature to implement...
