First Impressions

[Tvrdoglavi]

Hello there.
I moved from Windows to Linux a few months ago and I've been looking for a nice music production program ever since. I mostly used FL Studio on Sonar on Windows but they are not available on Linux. Yesterday I ran into LMMS and I installed it.
I'm running Ubuntu Gnome and LMMS was in the Ubuntu repository, it installed without a hitch.
I started it and got to the setup menu. This is where I ran into my first problem, a problem that seems very common with linux software. I keep my data on a secondary hard drive and LMMS file browser does not seem to be able to navigate to anything other than the system drive. I also keep my VST Plugins, samples, sound fonts, etc.. on that secondary hard drive, and that is a problem. If you are running your OS and a smaller SSD you don't want to have a large a large sample library or projects on there. File browser needs no be able to access other hard drives on the system.
Second thing that I did not like is that the UI is extremely small. Fonts are tiny and icons are had to see. I'm running 1920 x 1200 resolution. It's probably impossible to use LMMS on a 4k monitor.
Plugin browser window was too small and could not be resized. It also can not open a location on a secondary hard drive.
Some of the icons are not descriptive at all, and they are too small. Re-sizable UI is badly needed.

But enough of criticism, this is a young project and there are some great things I quickly noticed about it. Setting up audio devices was very easy. Latency was set at 5.8 ms from the start and I experienced no glitches during playback. Getting 5.8 ms on Windows would not have been easy. I played some of the demo songs and everything worked smoothly.
While the UI needs a lot of work it reminded me a lot of FL Studio's UI and felt familiar.
There is a nice selection of Demo Songs.
Overall it's a great start, I'll have to try and make some music with it and see how it goes.It's definitely a piece of software that will stay installed

[-sk1re-]

Hi Tvrdoglavi!

Your secondary hard drive when mounted should appear in root directory / --> '/media/"yourUserName"/"yourHDDName"/ '.

[caLRo]

Hello and welcome Tvrdoglavi!
I agree with you on the small UI problem. Sometimes it can be hard to position your mouse correctly to click that tiny little button.

[musikbear]

Hello there.

Hi, Welcome to the forum ! First, For you, all important links:
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4740
And a few rules for Avatars, signatures, posting and using the right sub-forum :)

As you can see, i moved your topic. Its because theres already a ticket on scaling on the hub.

Some of the icons are not descriptive at all, and they are too small.

When you say 'some', could you be more precise. A huge work has been done to create icons, that intuitively would express the action, so i would like to know witch you do not like :)

But enough of criticism,

We always like constructive criticism, so you are more than welcome.

Im pleased that you have good latency, and that the program runs fine. I hope the mount-method takes care of your HD issue -Looking forward to your songs !

[Tvrdoglavi]

Hi Tvrdoglavi!

Your secondary hard drive when mounted should appear in root directory / --> '/media/"yourUserName"/"yourHDDName"/ '.

Thank you, that worked. Not very intuitive but ...

[Tvrdoglavi]

Hello there.

Hi, Welcome to the forum ! First, For you, all important links:
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4740
And a few rules for Avatars, signatures, posting and using the right sub-forum

As you can see, i moved your topic. Its because theres already a ticket on scaling on the hub.

Some of the icons are not descriptive at all, and they are too small.

When you say 'some', could you be more precise. A huge work has been done to create icons, that intuitively would express the action, so i would like to know witch you do not like

But enough of criticism,

We always like constructive criticism, so you are more than welcome.

Im pleased that you have good latency, and that the program runs fine. I hope the mount-method takes care of your HD issue -Looking forward to your songs !

I find the following icons don't do the job:

Project Editor - has a lot to do with it's small size
Open Existing Project - Looks like a Print icon
Instrument Plugins - dark and small, looks more like a folder icon

A lot of the others are just too small to see them properly.

Thanks for the reply.

[musikbear]

Project Editor - has a lot to do with it's small size
Open Existing Project - Looks like a Print icon
Instrument Plugins - dark and small, looks more like a folder icon

Noted! Thankyou

I'm running 1920 x 1200 resolution. It's probably impossible to use LMMS on a 4k monitor.

Yes that is an issue, and no 4K looks bad. Current one of the issues that is in the works.

Could i ask you to make a screenshot,of your lmms UI, and post it?

(uhoh -please read this topic too : http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4683

[Tvrdoglavi]

I don't see a way to post a screenshot.

[musikbear]

I don't see a way to post a screenshot.

You need to host it on the net, and then insert the image-link between two image tags like

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[img][/img]

You find all these option if you open the full-editor, or if you make a quote

[Clownsman]

Has anyone figured out how to do 32 and 64 notes on a high hat per say?