But Not Tonight - Rancidbacon

Choosing LMMS for music production means choosing software created & paid for by people who believe artists should be able to own the tools they use to make their art.

LMMS is not a "free" loss leader from a for-profit business beholden to owners or shareholders and subject to the prevailing fiscal tides. LMMS is Free Software in the sense that its license "guarantees your freedom to share and change [it]—to make sure the software is free for all its users".

Do be aware, however, that in our current society the choice of artist owned tools is not without cost: maybe the pace of development is slower than you'd like; maybe the software doesn't yet have a feature that you'd like; or, maybe you'll need to dig a little deeper for answers to your questions...

On the other hand, you're also not going to wake up one morning and find the tool you use to make your art is no longer available to you—just because someone decided it was no longer profitable enough to make or sell.

Today perhaps you and the tools you use to make your art are in perfect Unity and it's not yet their Finale; still, it might be prudent to remember:

"(A Storm is Coming) But Not Tonight".

Thanks for listening!

Credits

• Music composition & production by Rancidbacon.
• Production software & plugins/resources used:
  • LMMS
  • Surge XT synthesizer (via Carla)
  • Fluid R3 General MIDI SoundFont by Frank Wen (FluidR3_GM.sf2)