Ah, LMMS. I had such high hopes for it. It was going to be the freeware I would recommend to newbies who were too broke to buy a DAW. Alas, it never really worked very well.
I use Reaper myself. Much functionality, low price, works well.
Just today I installed a demo of Ableton Live, which has a very different workflow but I'm looking at using it on stage at church. Not for DJ stuff, for soundtracks that I might want to go back and sing the first verse again. I could just put markers down in Reaper, but it doesn't do so well with jumping around in the song in real time. And if I export a soundtrack to a standard audio file, it feels somewhat constraining to just sing what's on the soundtrack, and when it's over it's over. If the Spirit moves I want to be able to keep singing if I need to.
I use Reaper myself. Much functionality, low price, works well.
Just today I installed a demo of Ableton Live, which has a very different workflow but I'm looking at using it on stage at church. Not for DJ stuff, for soundtracks that I might want to go back and sing the first verse again. I could just put markers down in Reaper, but it doesn't do so well with jumping around in the song in real time. And if I export a soundtrack to a standard audio file, it feels somewhat constraining to just sing what's on the soundtrack, and when it's over it's over. If the Spirit moves I want to be able to keep singing if I need to.