1 Linux MultiMedia Studio 0.9.x Development Series
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4 Copyright (c) 2004-2009 by LMMS-developers
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
9 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
13 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
14 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
18 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
19 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
26 LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio (R), 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.
32 * Song-Editor for composing songs
33 * A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and basslines
34 * An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
35 * An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow unlimited mixing possibilities
36 * Many powerful instrument and effect-plugins out of the box
37 * Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources
38 * Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and full MIDI support
39 * Import of MIDI and FLP (Fruityloops(R) Project) files
45 The most important requirement is for sure a fast computer, so don't try to get
46 LMMS working on a pentium I with 60 MHz... ;-) Therefore you should have at
47 least 500 MHz, but for really enjoying LMMS less than 1 GHz makes no sense...
52 - Qt >= 4.3.0 with devel-files (4.4.x recommended)
54 Optional, but strongly recommended:
55 - JACK with devel-files
56 - libvorbis & libogg with devel-files
57 - libalsa with devel-files
58 - SDL with devel-files
59 - libsamplerate >= 0.1.7 with devel-files
60 - libsndfile with devel-files
61 - WINE + WINE-devel-files
62 - stk, libstk + libstk-dev
63 - libfluidsynth with devel files
64 - fftw3 with devel-files
66 For compiling you should have an up to date GCC with g++.
68 If you have problems with compiling or running LMMS, find any bug or have
69 suggestions and so on, please feel free to e-mail me (for mail-address see
77 See INSTALL for information on how to build LMMS.
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85 If you are interested in LMMS, it's programming, artwork, testing, writing
86 demo-songs, (and improving this README...) or something like that,
87 you're welcome to participate on the development of LMMS!
89 The project-homepage of LMMS, mailingslists and a list of things you can do
92 http://lmms.sourceforge.net
95 Details on development can be found at
97 http://lmms.sourceforge.net/development.php
101 http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/
103 Before coding a new big feature, please ALWAYS post your idea and suggestions
104 about your feature and about the intended implementation to the
105 LMMS-devel-mailinglist (lmms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net) and wait for replies!
106 Maybe there're different ideas, improvements, hints or maybe your feature is
107 not welcome/needed at the moment.