LMMS is a free cross-platform music studio which allows 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.
Very promising music composition suite. The project files are text-based and in XML format. Uncompressed project files (MMP) can be edited with a text editor, so that buggy modules can be removed easily. The many features deserve and require a full-blown article of its own. All that in under 20 MB!
I have used Ableton and a few other DAWs and honestly, for the hundreds of dollars you might dish out for a commercial DAW you get a good product with more features than you need, but I have found that LMMS can do most of the same with my VSTi's and VST's at the attractive charge of $0. Better still its native to Linux, but runs on everything else too. Coupled with Audacity, this is my DAW of choice, I've been using it for about a year now making tunes.
I recently discovered lmms and I'm quite impressed! There are few DAWS applications like this for the LINUX OS that are as complete as lmms is. It's got a few "issues" but for the most part, it works very, very well. Note: to get the most from lmms, be sure to install a "Real TIme" kernel! I sincerely hope the lmms devs will continue to improve and support this application and not let it "go by the wayside" as so many other promising LINUX DAWS projects have.
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