Hello there. I call myself Mampfwurm everywhere, if you're wondering what a "Mampfwurm" is, it's that worm creature thing you can see two of in my profile picture. I used to have a knack for making up all kinds of wierd creatures and doodling everywhere.
LMMS has always been around for me, but it's only during the last two years that I really started to focus on it. I worked with all kinds of trackers for oldschool soundchips like FamiTracker, DefleMask (when it was still free), OpenMPT and even the Reality adlib tracker (for MS-DOS), if anyone knows that one. As you can probably guess by that choice of programs, I used to be really into chiptunes. Now I'm more interested in video game music in general but also discovered EDM through purchasing old demo records on flea markets. I still love the sound of some of these old consoles like the NES or Master System and there are some abolute gems out there (like the OSTs of "Journey to Silius" or "Silver Surfer"), but nowadays I'm more interested in the style and essence of such music than meeting the specific technical limitations of that hardware. But I still really like the old tech (I have a 486 from Compaq with some ablib knockoff and a lot of old toy keyboards knocking about for example).
Somehow LMMS just really works for me, I don't know if it's the interface, the fact that it's free or that I can just load in all my samples and cheesy old midi soundfonts, but I will probably sticking with it for the forseeable future, at least until I feel confident enough to invest into some professional software - which would be really expensive, so it doesn't feel justified for someone who is still mostly toying around, especially since LMMS already does everything I want right now. Also I'm a bit of a Open-Source fan.
It might be surprising to hear considering these interests, but my biggest interest actually used to be composition, not production or any technical aspect of music. I wrote a lot for piano (my main instrument) when I was younger. I've lost touch with classical music since, but I still like how music, when done right, can really bring something to life, like a certain level in a game for example and that's the kind of experience I want to create.
I'm still learning though, I feel it's only in the last two years that I really started to have an idea of what I was doing with my music. I have zero formal education in music apart from piano lessons and know nothing of music theory apart from all the formal stuff you need to know for writing sheet music correctly. I'm entirely self-thaught with almost everything I do. So I'm spending a lot of time trying to learn from the Soundtracks I enjoy most, by studying sheets, midi files, VGMs, etc and trying out differenz things. That's why you will probably see a lot of covers from me as well as my original stuff - and why I might the only one creating scores of his work as documentation.
So I'm mostly here to learn through sharing my stuff and receiving feedback, as you can read below, I'm very open for any suggestions, advice or opinions. But I'm also very curious about everyone elses work on here, so I will probably be spending most of my time here in the "Music Projects" category.