Re: [LAU] lmms book

Yes, Michael's Rosegarden Companion is severely out date. They've moved
to online documentation, but that's a bit spottily out of date, too, I
understand. The Rosegarden team could really use help with documentation!

On 09/27/2012 10:15 PM, Edgar Aichinger wrote:
> Am Freitag, 28. September 2012, 07:43:49 schrieb Dan MacDonald:
>> Thanks for the heads up Alex!
>>
>> It would seem the publishers, or at least their web masters, are (ex)
>> Amigans as I got some guru meditations thrown at me when visiting that
>> page! :)
>>
>> qtractor has a superb free digital manual and I know Ardour has both
>> some good online docs and some space dedicated to it in print form,
>> like Dave P's book for one and I've found at least one more on Amazon
>> that mentions Ardour, but otherwise it would seem LMMS is the first
>> open source DAW (DAW? Its just a simple sequencer with a few synths
>> built in- maybe not) to get a dedicated book released in print -
>> right?
>
> Not true, http://www.amazon.com/Rosegarden-Companion-D-Michael-McIntyre/dp/2915925186
>
> Although I think this one is severely out of date, and out of print now. I bought a copy of the
> (poor) german translation at LAC2007 in Berlin, IIRC.
>
>
> Edgar
>
>>
>> I'm not really surprised LMMS is the first to get its own book as I'm
>> on the LMMS list and there is a steady stream of volunteer devs
>> arriving to offer there services and I'm sure this only happens so
>> much compared to the other open source DAWs because it is both open
>> source and has a Windows port. Mixbus is already available for Windows
>> and Paul has stated A3 will be getting ported to Windows after the
>> stable Linux and OSX versions are released. Although I won't be using
>> Ardour under Windows, I can't wait for the Windows port to go mainline
>> because I'm certain more devs will start to contribute code to Ardour
>> when this happens as it will suddenly have a greatly increased user
>> base and I'm hoping this will lead to more VSTs getting ported and
>> some open sourced.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
>> <alexandre.prokoudine@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> It looks like PacktPub published a book on LMMS:
>>>
>>> http://www.packtpub.com/linux-multimedia-studio-complete-guide-to-dance-music-production/book
>>>
>>> Alexandre Prokoudine
>>> http://libregraphicsworld.org
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