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Linux MultiMedia Studio 0.4.0 ============================== Copyright (c) 2004-2008 by LMMS-developers This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. What is LMMS? -------------- LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating/synthesizing sounds, arranging samples, using effects, playing live with keyboard and much more... LMMS combines the features of a sequencer-program (pattern-/channel-/ sample-/song-/effect-management) and those of powerful synthesizers and samplers in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface. LMMS is still in heavy development, so with this version please don't expect a complete, ready and bugfree program!! Requirements ------------ The most important requirement is for sure a fast computer, so don't try to get LMMS working on a pentium I with 60 MHz... ;-) Therefore you should have at least 500 MHz, but for really enjoying LMMS less than 1 GHz makes no sense... Required libraries: - Qt >= 4.3.0 with devel-files Optional, but strongly recommended: - JACK with devel-files - libvorbis with devel-files - libalsa with devel-files - SDL_sound (tested with 0.1.5 & 1.0.1) with devel-files - SDL with devel-files - libsamplerate with devel-files - libsndfile with devel-files - WINE + WINE-devel-files - stk, libstk + libstk-dev - festival-devel-files and default-voice For compiling you should have an up to date GCC with g++. If you have problems with compiling or running LMMS, find any bug or have suggestions and so on, please feel free to e-mail me (for mail-address see below)! Building -------- See INSTALL for information on how to build LMMS. Please also take a look at ./configure --help There you'll see a lot of options which partly might be interesting for you. For example if you want to build LMMS with VST-support, you have to run configure with --with-vst switch. Otherwise LMMS support won't be built! Join LMMS-development ---------------------- If you are interested in LMMS, it's programming, artwork, testing, writing demo-songs, (and improving this f**** README...) or something like that, you're welcome to participate on the development of LMMS! The project-homepage of LMMS, mailingslists and a list of things you can do can be found at http://lmms.sourceforge.net Details on development can be found at http://lmms.sourceforge.net/development.php or in the Wiki: http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/ Before coding a new big feature, please ALWAYS post your idea and suggestions about your feature and about the intended implementation to the LMMS-devel-mailinglist (lmms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net) and wait for replies! Maybe there're different ideas, improvements, hints or maybe your feature is not welcome/needed at the moment.