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.

What's New in version 0.4.6:

Core:

• PulseAudio backend: fixed latency and underrun problems
• PulseAudio backend: fixed improper shutdown + free allocated resources
• AudioJack backend: removed incorrect JACK transport code
• MidiWinMM: fixed list of output ports being empty
• AutomatableModel: do not return an out of range value in fittedValue()
• ConfigMgr: fix initialization of various paths if they do not exist

GUI:

• Fixed bug #2819817: main window scrollbars
• Increase import filter for *.midi and *.riff
• ControllerConnectionDialog: improved auto detect feature for controllers
• EffectSelectDialog: rewritten using Designer
• Fixed issue with knobs in 3xOsc and AudioFilePro.
• SideBar: rewritten to use QToolBar instead of KMultiTabBar
• TrackContentWidget: fixed background tile pixmap updating
• MainWindow: stop playing song when asking whether to save project

Plugins:

• Mallets: build properly with Stk 4.4
• RemoteVstPlugin: make more VST plugins work
• TAP LADSPA plugins: updated to version 0.7.1
• VeSTige, ZASF, LB302, Sf2Player: do not process if InstrumentTrack is muted
• VeSTige: set VeSTige logo as window icon for plugin GUI subwindow
• ZynAddSubFX: resynced with their Git repo
• ZynAddSubFX: fix some presets not being restored properly when loading project
• ZynAddSubFX: added fast GUI-less mode
• ZynAddSubFX: forward MidiControlChange events to ZynAddSubFX core
• ZynAddSubFX/FLTK: updated to SVN revision 6921

Misc:

• Added new Korean translation
• Updated German localization files
• Removed some old projects