All of the other windows that you interact with exist in relation to the Song Editor, so use it as your main compositional hub.īy default, the Song Editor pre-populates four channels: This is its sequencer, where you plug in new instruments, samples, drum lines, and automation. The centre of the LMMS interface is its Song Editor window. Best of all, LMMS comes with many ready-to-use instrument and effect plug-ins, presets, and samples, making it one of the easiest music applications on any platform to get started on. It's an everything-including-the-kitchen-sink apps, providing you with all the tools you need to create melodies, lay down a beat (mad, phat, dope, or otherwise), synthesize new sounds, sample, loop, distort, enhance, and, of course, mix it all together. LMMS is a free end-to-end, cross-platform music production suite. In the world of digital audio workstations, the project that does this most profoundly is the Linux Multimedia Studio, better known as LMMS.
That's why it's nice, sometimes, to come across a project that brings a bunch of modular technology and binds them together nice and neatly for users. It turns out to be liberating in the end, but it can be overwhelming at first. One thing that confuses some new Linux users is just how modular Linux can be, and on nearly every level.
