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.

Features:

• Song-Editor for composing songs
• A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and basslines
• An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
• An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow unlimited mixing possibilities
• 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
• Import of MIDI and FLP (Fruityloops® Project) files

Requirements: Depending on the type and size of the songs you plan to write it´s recommended to have at least 1 GHz and 512 MB of RAM. If you use VST-plugins and a recent SVN-copy of LMMS it´s also recommended to have multiple cores and/or CPUs.

Note from FreewareFiles: The setup program includes a toolbar which is automatically installed.

What´s New in version 0.4.12:

Core:

• LadspaManager: really only load shared library on Linux
• Do not apply FX mixer effects twice when playing frozen pattern
• ConfigMgr: do not silently fail to parse configuration file
• ConfigMgr: properly write configuration file if it contains non-ASCII chars
• Reset filename when recovering project after unexpected exit
• SampleBuffer: do not use UTF-8 filenames on Windows
• InstrumentTrack: make sure m_runningMidiNotes[x] does not become negative

GUI:

• MainWindow: skip autosave while playing or exporting
• Faders in FX mixer: added peak value indicator
• Add tooltips to FX mixer faders
• Widgets classes: use 'WindowTitle' property instead of 'AccessibleName'

Plugins:

• ZynAddSubFX: minor fixes from upstream
• ZynAddSubFX/FLTK: updated to SVN revision 8805
• Added missing plugins from the SWH LADSPA plugin collection

Misc:

• INSTALL: added note for systems without sudo support
• Data/Projects: completely revised shipped collection of projects
• Win32/Win64 builds built with updated MinGW64 runtime and GCC and shipping with updated versions of Qt