LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.
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LMMS Sharing Platform Share your songs!
- Song-Editor for composing songs
- Pattern-Editor for creating beats and patterns
- An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
- A Mixer with unlimited mixer channels and arbitrary number of effects
- Many powerful instrument and effect-plugins out of the box
- Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources
- Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and full MIDI support
- MIDI file importing and exporting
See Compiling LMMS on our wiki for information on how to build LMMS.
If you are interested in LMMS, its programming, artwork, testing, writing demo songs, (and improving this README...) or something like that, you're welcome to participate in the development of LMMS!
Information about what you can do and how can be found in the wiki.
Before coding a new big feature, please always file an issue for your idea and suggestions about your feature and about the intended implementation on GitHub, or ask in one of the tech channels on Discord and wait for replies! Maybe there are different ideas, improvements, or hints, or maybe your feature is not welcome/needed at the moment.