LMMS Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: Getting Started with DAW?

  So, I saw the other day the release of the ep-133, and it happens that I want to get started doing that kind of stuff (e.g., creating simple beats). I have zero knowledge about DAW/sampling and music in general (my background is in soft. engineering), so the first thing that I searched on Google is "open source daw" and I found LMMS (https://lmms.io/). I'm going through the documentation right now. Do you know... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Midi I/O vs USB

  Of course, you need some kind of DAW software in your PC that receives MIDI (from LPK), creates the audio data and sends them to Volt. If you have zero experience with this, start with some kind of simple and self-contained DAW, like e.g. "LMMS" (free download). Later you can graduate to more complex (and expensive) DAWs and separate VST plugins. Source: 10 months ago

• Linux for Video Editing and Photo Editing and Music DJ: Some idea?

  For music making, it kind of depends on what you use normally but LMMS is a decent free DAW. Source: 11 months ago

• My dual boot with windows 11 won't boot past intro screen or even into bios after failed attempt to fix frequent Kerbal panic.

  Give a try to Ardour, LMMS, MusE and Rosegarden. Source: 11 months ago

• Looking for some editing software

  Take a look at: Shotcut for video. Paint.NET for image editing. LMMS for your soundtrack. All free. Source: about 1 year ago

• How can i set up a DAW and use a piano Vst on linux?

  Consider giving LMMS a try! It has support for VSTs and soundfonts and you can connect your MIDI keyboard. Source: about 1 year ago

• Where Do I Even Start?

  On the software end of things, there's loads of great freeware to work with while you learn the ropes (and maybe even after that, too)! You'll turn up quite a few of them with a bit of research, but there's a few I can recommend right off. Audacity is nothing fancy but it is a reliable, well-supported workhorse of a program with straightforward controls and heaps of plugins. LMMS is pretty much the go-to free... Source: about 1 year ago

• help with making music (as in programs for it, not like asking for help)

  The search term you are looking for is "Digital Audio Workstation". Which one to use is mostly a religious question, because they are basically all the same. If you want a FOSS one, try LMMS. Source: about 1 year ago

• Need free producing software

  LMMS will give you a very similar experience for free. Source: about 1 year ago

• Request for a distro based on a list of programs for a Windows user

  Regarding ableton: LMMS should be your thing. Source: about 1 year ago

• FreeBSD Home Audio Studio

  I am not really qualified to access it's quality, but there is also lmms, which looks like it works well enough. https://lmms.io/ Not really qualified because I am not a musician and I was only using lmms to play around with a midi dials and buttons box, openbsd's sndio. And to see if I could get them to work togther. So in my case it was more of a systems integration exercise than making any music with it. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• making music on linux OS (free or very cheap vst daws etc)

  Some may recommend LMMS. It's only a sequencer, not a full DAW. LMMS does not record audio. Source: over 1 year ago

• does anyone know of a good daw that replicates the snes sound chips?

  I don't know how faithful it is, but lmms has a synth specifically crafted for that, it's free. Source: over 1 year ago

• What is a good place to start?

  If you prefer something like a DAW, try lmms (https://lmms.io/). Source: over 1 year ago

• Trying to get into making Synthwave, Outrun etc. Best equipment or software

  If you wanna go the free route then use LMMS as your DAW and download the free VSTis that are in the sub's wiki (I would link this too, but I can't do it from phone). Source: over 1 year ago

• Is it possible to create good orchestral music digitally?

  It is eminently possible. ZynSubFx is really good, for home-grown synth, and it comes stock with LMMS, But more than this, its implementation of SF2 sound fonts works great too. Yamaha's XG MIDI sound bank is available as an .SF2 file, for free, and really doesn't require much in the way of massaging or effects (it's against forum rules, or I prove it with a link to a nice-sounding chamber waltz I made with... Source: over 1 year ago

• did the remove scroll wheel click in piano roll?

  You should try installing an official LMMS AppImage from lmms.io and see if that works instead of the package manager. Source: over 1 year ago

• Creation software for younger students

  Lots of great suggestions here, I'd also add one: LMMS, it's open source DAW available on Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Source: over 1 year ago

• I sampled the Lower Brinstar music from Super Metroid for a university assignment. Lemme know what you think

  Looks like Ableton to me. If the cost for the license prohibits you, try looking into a software called LMMS, a free digital audio workstation. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is fruity loops still a thing? / what’s a free and easy way to make simple tunes to use in the game?

  Fruity Loops is professional software that costs seven hundred fucking dollars. Use its open source alternative, LMMS! Source: over 1 year ago

• A quick rant of music software on linux and it being absolutely proprietary.

  Also I'm going to advocate for LMMS (https://lmms.io/) I don't know if it has any of the capability you're looking for but it's FOSS, and IMO is a fantastic project made by people who value their software. Source: over 1 year ago