LMMS
Let's make music with a free, cross-platform tool for your computer.
- Free • Open Source
- Music Production App
- Digital Audio Workstation
- Audio Recorder
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
What is LMMS?
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.
LMMS Screenshots
LMMS Features
- Piano Roll
- Digital Audio Workstation
- Export to MP3
- Export to MIDI
- MIDI Keyboard Input
- Audio Recording
- Free API
- Customizable
- Royalty-free music
- Lossless quality
- Mix Music
- Image exporting
- Beat bassline
- Google Drive integration
- Sample packs
- Plugin API
- Support for Android Things
- Performance Monitoring
- Image Sharing
- Sync with Simplenote
LMMS information
- Developed byPaul Giblock & Tobias Doerffel
- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.1
- Alternatives89 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 7,204 Stars
- 969 Forks
- 1084 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Music Production
- Audio Editor
- drum-machine
- ladspa-plugins-support
- piano
If you're talented, you can use this program as well as non-free FL Studio. LMMS is actively developing. F. E. in last few months, they added three new instruments. The are some things that fl Studio does better, on the other hand, lmms is also better than fl Studio in few moments. You have a possibility of using it for all (99,9 %) electronic genres, And there is awesome library of instrument presets. Built-in samples are not enough good ??. As in FL Studio, you should watch tutorials, to understand how are the things working.
P.S. The best instrument is ZynAddSubFX, but it's hard to tweak it the way you want (cause of many ways to do it). You should look into presets, and watch tutorials!
P.P.S. Sorry for that English..
LMMS is an incredibly powerful suite of tools for producing music. However, the tag "Audio Recording" is misleading. In fact, the LMMS user manual says "LMMS can't edit recorded sounds, nor can LMMS record sound." The manual recommends Audacity "for recording and editing audio". LMMS can record notes from a MIDI keyboard, but not an audio signal.
I can't get the midi to flippin' work on my pants laptop.
Good to see that Open Source become more competitive to proprietary professional programs than before. Keep it up!
Some random crashes tarnish the experience. I think it can be improved but at to this moment, as a musician (hobby, not pro) I use it.
The fact that it's free and open source is reason enough to use it. User-friendly.
Amazing software! Lightweight, open source, and easy to learn and start making music. I've been using it for half a year now, and it's served its purpose.