well, I was specifically pointing to how to integrate soft synths with Muse.
http://www.muse-sequencer.org/wiki/inde ... _with_MusE
This info isn't very informative, and I've been having hell of a time figuring out how to load a synth. This is basic stuff, and the manual clearly skips this section? First, it should be obvious in the interface, and if not, it should be documented. Open source isn't supposed to be about negligence. It's supposed to fight negligence with community effort. Yet many people fail to grasp that concept.
In terms of LMMS, which is supposed to have simplified VST support, you tell me if you can figure out how to get the newest version. For many distributions, you cannot even install the program because the newest version has a controversial VST implementation that was reverse engineered. So, if you are unfortunate enough to be using one of the unsupported platforms, you will need to download all required packages, and compile the code yourself. The problem with this is that you need to have a certain version a certain package, and there is also the slim chance that that specific package is not available to your linux distribution. Even if it was available, many times you have to figure out the dependencies by yourself. This is officially called "dependency hell" in the linux community from what I understand, though I'm not a hardcore user just yet.
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/index. ... =Main_Page
Of course, I still haven't given up yet.. but it just takes so much time. Now I'm even having trouble re-enabling my Japanese input system on Ubuntu studio that all of a sudden stopped working. And I've already by tinkering with it for about a week.
If it takes that much effort to even install and run the program, then you be be darn sure that the process is well documented. (which unfortunately, is barely understandable)
You're right, for making music you don't need to know all the exclusive internals of a program. But unfortunately in Linux, many times you're required to know the complete internal workings of your linux distribution, the software you're about to compile, and also be familiar with the compiling process to just install the software. The process would not be so cumbersome if things were documented.
This has nothing to do with knowing how to get a good mix, or knowing how to use a sequencer, or even knowing how to make good compositions. This is about installing software.
