Linux MultiMedia Studio 0.1.2
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Copyright (c) 2004-2005 by Tobias Doerffel and others


The whole 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., 59 Temple
Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, 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, playing live with keyboard and much more...

LMMS combines the features of a tracker-/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... ;-) So you should have at least
500 MHz, but for really enjoying LMMS less than 1 GHz makes no sense...
(LMMS is currently developed on a PIII 450 MHz...!!)

Required libraries are:

- Qt 3.2 or higher (tested up to 4.0.0) with devel-files

Optional, but strongly recommended:
- 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
- JACK with devel-files

For compiling you should have an up to date GCC with g++.
LMMS has been (successfully) tested under Debian Sarge 3.1, Fedora Core 2-4,
and SuSE Linux 9.0-9.3 with Qt 3.[23].x and Qt 4.0.0.
It was compiled using GCC 3.3.x, GCC 3.4.x and GCC 4.0.x.

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)!




Join LMMS-development
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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


Before coding a new big feature, please always post your idea and suggestions
about your feature and about the actual 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 (but for sure this will be very seldom).

If you coded your feature, make sure, that it is running properly with the
newest available version of LMMS and that it also runs with different
configurations (e.g. disabled surround-support, missing package(s) etc.).
Important is also, that you comment your source so that other people can fix
bugs or improve your feature!