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Linux MultiMedia Studio 0.4.0
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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?
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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
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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 & libogg with devel-files
- libalsa with devel-files
- SDL with devel-files
- libsamplerate >= 0.1.3 with devel-files
- libsndfile with devel-files
- WINE + WINE-devel-files
- stk, libstk + libstk-dev
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
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See INSTALL for information on how to build LMMS.
Join LMMS-development
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If you are interested in LMMS, it's programming, artwork, testing, writing
demo-songs, (and improving this 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.