On 07/29/2014 05:55 PM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote:
>
> This isn't the biggest hurdle here IMO. The core engine is the
> problematic part.
>
>
> I'm going to dive a bit more into the kickstarter idea...
>
> When you ask the public to fund something large, you have to make
> promises that meet public demand.
>
> Despite what your opinion is about the importance of developing the
> "core" (infrastructure, etc), I can assure you more people will be
> excited when undo is working (and I mean properly, not what we have
> now) and more people will be interested when they can export MP3s than
> they will be about a smoother running core.
I think you misunderstand my intent a bit.
It's not so much about "what is important" - it's about what we can do
ourselves, what we can't do ourselves, and - if we do manage to fund and
hire a developer - what that paid developer's work hours are best spent
towards.
UI features, functionality, etc. are of course important - but those are
not things that we'd need to hire a developer for. If we pay for a
developer, if we pay for X hours/days of development time, then the best
way to utilize that paid time is to spend it towards things which we're
not capable of implementing ourselves.
> We also need to target our userbase. If our users want to make
> Skrillex "growls", we make that possible. The "growls" and "wobbles"
> get buy in from people who stole Ableton and FL Studio and are sick of
> breaking the law. Our campaign video represents an aggregation of the
> requests that are both popular, possible and make sense in our budget
> and timeline.
It's already plenty possible to make "Skrillex growls". I don't think
that's anything we need to specifically support or encourage. Plus...
people who pirate FL studio and just want to make "growls" aren't very
likely to be loyal supporters of LMMS and I kind of doubt that chasing
fads and pandering to the "skrillex crowd" would bring in that much
support. In other words, I kind of doubt if those who are comfortable
using pirated FL studio are likely to contribute money to improve an
open source DAW...
The improved core would however be necessary in making LMMS into a true
professional quality DAW. The limitations of the current engine will
catch up with us eventually, and at some point we will very likely hit a
wall where we can no longer keep patching up the holes... with the
improved core, we could offer reliable live performance, which would
bring a whole new market to the reach of LMMS.
And even if you don't perform live, being able to play your songs real
time is pretty important aspect of the workflow. Even now, I'm
constantly facing problems with most of my projects where my projects
grow big enough that I can no longer play them back properly in LMMS, I
have to export to be able to listen through. That's not very good
workflow and it will only get worse the more functionality we pile up on
LMMS.
So it's not just about infrastructure... it's that the core rendering
engine, the very heart of LMMS, is dysfunctional and needs fixing. And
it's not just a "nice to have" thing... When I said the stakes were to
"keep LMMS alive", I was only half joking. I very much fear that unless
we manage to somehow solve this issue, LMMS faces eventual extinction as
the codebase becomes unmanageable and eventually bitrots when no one is
left who understands how all of it works...
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