LMMS (formerly Linux MultiMedia Studio[6]) is a digital audio workstation application program. It allows music to be produced by arranging samples, synthesizing sounds, entering notes via computer keyboardormouse (or other pointing device) or by playing on a MIDI keyboard, and combining the features of trackers and sequencers. It is free and open source software, written in Qt and released under GPL-2.0-or-later.
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Screenshot of a project in LMMS 1.2.1
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Original author(s) | Paul Giblock Tobias Junghans[1] |
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Developer(s) | LMMS developers |
Initial release | 2004; 20 years ago (2004); as Linux MultiMedia Studio |
Stable release | 1.2.2[2] / 4 July 2020; 9 November 2020 |
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Written in | C++ with Qt[3] |
Operating system | Cross-platform: Windows, macOS, Linux, Haiku |
Platform | x86 and x86-64 (Linux, macOS, Windows), only Linux: arm64, armel, armhf, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x[3] |
Available in | 20 languages[4] |
Type | Digital audio workstation |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later[5] |
Website | lmms |
LMMS is available for multiple operating systems, including Linux, OpenBSD, macOS, and Windows. It requires a 1.5 GHz CPU, 1 GB of RAM and a two-channel sound card.[7]
LMMS accepts soundfonts and GUS patches, and it supports the Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA) and LV2 (only master branch, since 24.05.2020). It can use VST plug-ins on Win32, Win64, or Wine32. The nightly versions support LinuxVST. Currently the macOS port doesn't support them.[8][9]
It can import Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) and Hydrogen files and can read and write customized presets and themes.[10]
Audio can be exported in the Ogg, FLAC, MP3, and WAV file formats.[11]
Projects can be saved in the compressed MMPZ
file format or the uncompressed MMP
file format.[12]
LMMS includes a variety of audio plug-ins that can be drag-and-dropped onto instrument tracks in the Song Editor and Beat+Bassline Editor.
Synthesizer plugins:
Other plugins
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