Open Source LMMS Alternatives

Alternatives to LMMS for all platforms with Open Source License

Ardour

Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Ardour's intention is to provide digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use. NOTE: Ardour source code is freely available but pre-built binaries are commercial free-libre software: users who download from ardour.

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Mix Music Audio Editing Audio Recording DAW ... Multitrack editing Non destructive editing Support for VST plugins Add a feature

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Rosegarden

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.

Free Open Source Linux
Piano Roll Customizable DAW Music Composer ... Record midi & audio in real-time Add a feature

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Carla

Carla is an audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats. It has some nice features like automation of parameters via MIDI CC (and send output back as MIDI too) and full OSC control. Carla currently supports LADSPA (including LRDF), DSSI, LV2, VST2/3 and AU plugin formats, plus GIG, SF2 and SFZ file support. It uses JACK as the default and preferred audio driver but also supports native drivers like ALSA, DirectSound or CoreAudio.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Music Composer Rack Effects Support for VST plugins Add a feature

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Qtractor

Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.

Free Open Source Linux
Audio Editing DAW Midi Multitrack editing ... Support for VST plugins Add a feature

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Zrythm

Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use. - Automate almost anything with automation events using straight lines, ramps and curves, or with LFOs and envelopes, - Full support for LV2, a free and extensible standard for audio plugins.

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Audio Editing Audio Export Audio Recording Support for Audio Units Plugins ... Multiple languages Mix Music Music Composer Plugins Support for VST plugins DAW Add a feature

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LinuxSampler

LinuxSampler - free, open source pure software audio sampler with professional grade features. The LinuxSampler project was founded with the goal to produce a free, streaming capable open source pure software audio sampler with professional grade features, comparable to both hardware and commercial Windows/Mac software samplers and to introduce new features not yet available by any other sampler in the world.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Load midifiles Simple installation Midi Add a feature

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Bosca Ceoil

Bosca Ceoil is all about looping, and designed that way at its heart. Songs are built up from lots of tiny 16 note patterns – the intended workflow is that you loop over these single patterns until you have something you like, then you start making variations. If you approach it this way, you’ll find it’s pretty decent at doing that – but it’s not very good at other things, like say, long melody lines.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Adobe AIR
Supports for MIDI Beginner friendly Music Composer Portable Add a feature

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Non DAW Studio

A a modular system composed of four main parts: Non Timeline, a non-destructive, non-linear audio recorder and arranger. Non Mixer, a live mixer with effects plugin hosting and advanced Ambisonics spatialization control. Non Sequencer, a live, pattern based MIDI sequencer, and finally, the Non Session Manager to tie together these applications and more into cohesive song-level units.

Free Open Source Linux
Audio Editing DAW Add a feature

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Frinika

Frinika is a free (licensed under GNU GPL) complete music workstation software containing sequencer, midi support, soft synthesizers, audio recorder, piano roll/tracker/notation editing and more. The goal of Frinika is to be a complete platform for making music with your computer, using the versatile Java platform to be able to run on several operating systems, and being open source to be able to embrace the best open source technology being available at any time.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
DAW Synthesizer Support for VST plugins Add a feature

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FamiStudio

FamiStudio is very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. It is designed to be easier to use than FamiTracker, but its feature set is also much more limited. It is targeted at both chiptune artists and NES homebrewers.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Wine
Midi Music Composer Add a feature

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