LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating/synthesizing sounds, arranging samples, playing live with keyboard and much more...
LMMS combines the features of a tracker-/sequencer-program (pattern-/channel-/ sample-/song-/effect-management) and those of powerful synthesizers and samplers in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface.
Linux MultiMedia Studio project is still in heavy development, so with this version please don't expect a complete, ready and bugfree program!!
With LMMS you can produce electronic music via your computer, so you don't have to buy expensive hardware for having great sounds and making cool music. Of course no software can replace real hardware-synths, but you'll have still much fun with LMMS!
LMMS provides software-synths, cool presets for them and also some essential samples. For getting started with LMMS you can take a look at the demo-songs.
What's New in 0.3.2 Stable Release:
ˇ made VST-GUI work with recent WINE-versions
ˇ improved painting of volume-lines in piano-roll
ˇ fixed compilation issues with GCC 4.3
ˇ fixed bugs in effect-chain
ˇ improved project-unloading time
ˇ fixed wrong signal-slot-connection which made gate-parameter of effects not working
ˇ on MIDI-import load Patman-plugin instead of TripleOsc and try to load patch according to program-change-events
ˇ various other small fixes, see ChangeLog for details
What's New in 0.4.0 Alpha Development Release:
ˇ FX-mixer: now you can route each instrument-track into one of 64 FX-channels
ˇ heavily improved automation: freely usable automation-tracks and -patterns
ˇ controllers: all knobs can be controlled live by one of the controllers:
- MIDI-controller
- LFO-controller
- Peak-controller
ˇ use SoundFont-files directly in LMMS via the new SF2-Player plugin
ˇ watch your sounds with the new SpectrumAnalyzer-plugin
ˇ export your projects at arbitrary sample-rates with oversampling of up to 8x
ˇ new artwork and style: LMMS 0.4.0 looks modern, professional and uniform
ˇ LMMS now takes advantage of multiple cores/CPUs by using worker-threads
ˇ time-signatures other than 4/4 are supported now
ˇ triplet-notes can be used
ˇ render your projects without any GUI/X11 in console-mode
ˇ CAPS- and TAP-plugins shipped with LMMS
ˇ basic PulseAudio-support
ˇ more consistent file-format
