On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]>wrote:
> Vesa I think you are making the live performance mode more complex then it > needs to be. > His description was pretty spot on. > all it is in FL is that its composed of samples that you press and they > loop > I doubt this actually. I haven't used FL Studio's live mode either, but this is rarely how it's done. Instead, the buttons represent a sequence which is automatically time-syncro'd. A "sample" is useless in live mode. Live mode is an interesting cat and mouse game where you want to be able to plan an automation event days, seconds or miliseconds before it needs to occur. It's not a turn-table emulation, it's much more than that. Live mode isn't just for performances either, it actually helps with the creative process. If a room full of musicians are working on a segment, they may want to switch between the break beat and the standard beat. They might want to play only a segment of a melody or fade in a bassline. Ableton Live was built with this in mind and is probably a better example, but if you've ever used Ableton Live, it's reliance on "Live Mode" actually cripples it's functionality as a DAW as everything needs to be "recorded" into the song editor. A composer can copy/paste segments, but from my experience it's a worse experience than LMMS, at least for those that are using the mouse and keyboard to compose, rather than live instruments. Unrelated to "live mode", one feature that most DAWs have (that LMMS could benefit from) is a drum pack, which usually is probably well described as a "DIY soundfont", as each note can be assigned a different sound. More appropriately described, this would be an instrument stack of AudioFileProcessors, where each note can have it's own unique sound assigned. This is useful for much more than drums as sound effects can all be stacked onto one track, but in terms of drums, this can allow someone to drag and replace electronic drum presets with rock drums, etc. Each sample can have it's own envelope settings, which makes it fantastic. Often VST drum packs have a standard assignment of MIDI notes which *would* allow a drum pattern from VST to be reused in a native drumpack instead. and then obviously you can create your own samples and extend what you can > do in that live performance. I like some of the other ideas you suggested > though. I think though its best at this point I file an enhancement request > and we go from there. > I still think this request is the *moon and the stars* and really shouldn't clutter the bug report until we know it's on the roadmap. Is it on the roadmap? :)
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