LMMS: Fixing distorted sound

So I have been casually using Linux Multimedia Studio, or LMMS, since 2010.  It is a really good free and open source alternative to FruityLoops.

I won't go detailing how great this tool is for digitally creating your music as I am assuming you bump onto this post already knowing what LMMS is.

One issue of this tool on Windows is that LMMS keeps distorting your (if I may) compositions, adding buzz and other weirdness to your music.

The problem is even added on its Troubleshooting page but it is still currently unanswered as of this post.

Luckily, the answer is actually already on its Forums posted by a fellow LMMS user, darkill.  And it's just waiting for someone to add it on LMMS' Wiki.

For archiving purposes (just in case the forums and/or the wiki won't be accessible), let me state the steps here on this post.

Open DirectX Diagnostic Tool

1. Open a Command Prompt
2. Type-in: dxdiag
3. Check the tabs with labels "Sound1", "Sound2", etc.
4. Check for the Driver's name (mine is STWRT.SYS)
5. Take note of this now do the next steps 

Update LMMS Settings

1. Run our favorite digital music authoring tool called LMMS :)
2. Go to Edit -> Settings
3. Now goto Audio Settings
4. Change the Audio Interface to SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer)
5. Then specify your Driver's Name of your Audio Device on Settings for SDL

Now restart LMMS and hope that the distortion and other weirdness on your music is gone.

Happy composing!

~creek23

What If 2012 happens?

Been months since I watched 2012 but I still can't remove it in my mind, "What if 2012 happens?"

With billions of dollars in bank, Bill Gates will surely get on board. How about Richard Stallman? Linus Torvalds perhaps?

As a developer, it makes me think, should I still be doing the "right" thing for people? Or should I do the "right" thing for me and my family -- to start hoarding tons of money by selling patented proprietary software...

Another thing that puzzles me, "What kind of software will be saved?". Or better yet, "What kind of software will power the computers of the next generation?". Microsoft's Windows and Visual Studio? Google's Chrome and Go? Perhaps Canonical's Ubuntu, thanks to Mark Shuttleworth.

I hope my small programming language will be saved along with other free and open source projects on SourceForge.

So, I ask you, "What if 2012 happens?"

Proprietary Software created jobs

The fight against proprietary software is a decade long discussion once you get yourself in it -- I did.

When somebody tells you this same line, "proprietary software created jobs", tell them "so did marijuana".

Okay, maybe that's too absurd to describe what proprietary software is in our community. But the fact that a business employs people does not excuse misconduct in its business practices.

Drug dealing was never made legal, because it's a common knowledge that these illegal drugs kills people. But how different is proprietary software? What made it legal to sell proprietary software?

Is it because it doesn't kill anyone? Well, it does and it did. It just killed the very human in us, to care for others who won't have the chance to use it.