WOW! You will fully understand the power after you use it. The tool has nine octaves and imagine that you can play all the notes in the same time with a different length time for each note and a different intensity. Even though the sound can't be very real, the ways you can play with this tool are out of this world. In the piano-roll tool you can configure easily how long a note lasts, how intense the sound is and a very advanced pattern for the notes. This gives a lot of versatility to the program. When those are frozen any modification you make to the pattern only applies after you unfreeze them. There is an option to freeze a beet pattern or even a piano roll pattern. You can add between 1 and more steps you can count. The number of steps can be easily customized. Clicking this buttons you can easily make a pattern with beats. For each sample are 16 steps set by default. They can be found in the left pane, in My Samples tab. In this editor you add most of your samples. Neat!!! The rest of the magic happens in the beat+bassline editor and in the piano-roll window. Audio samples are displayed as waveforms in the timeline and the piano segments are displayed as patterns. I really can't figure out why those two are left out. I wonder what you can't do in this window?! When adding sample tracks you should know that this software supports a fair amount of audio formats, but doesn't support the most common ones: mp3 and wma. In the little drop-down box that shows the amount of zoom, left-clicking increments the zoom and right-clicking zooms out the timeline. With double-click or single right click you can rename them. Tracks can be turned on and off with just a click of a mouse and they can be cloned with two. Imagine how easy is to manage your project. Segments can be renamed and the color can be changed. With this basic operations you will arrange your sound passages in a song. They can be repositioned, resized and copied with amassing ease. Those are very nicely displayed in a timeline. Another versatile tool you will definitely play with is the piano-roll tool.įrom the song editor you can add beats/basslines and sample tracks. When you fire up LMMS you will see two main windows: the song editor and the beat+bassline editor (I would have used the term “baseline” but I don't want to upset the developers). Applications like this are rare in Linux. I love it! It has a very good usability and it also looks nice. Unfortunately I wasn't able to test the midi interface, because I don't have a midi keyboard.Ībout LMMS interface I can say only one thing. Note that you will not have to use jack with this program, but I still recommend it. Another nice thing is that you can make the program's interface display it's windows in a centralized interface or in separate windows just like in GIMP. One thing that I like is that when you move the buffer slider it shows how many frames are buffered and also what impact this has on the latency. The most important settings are related to the buffer size, window behavior, sound and midi interface. With a little bit of talent and a little bit of luck you will become a star in no time.Īt first you will notice a splash screen and then a window where you can setup LMMS. This review will be about LMMS, because it installs the easiest and will not give you headaches about a bunch of missing libraries and jack. In Linux there are several free music production software, and the best are LMMS and Rosegarden. Well, you can just give it a try with music production without spending a dime out of your pocket. Have you ever considered to give it a try in the music industry? Are you looking up with admiration at music producers like Armin Van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold or Carl Cox? Maybe you didn't went after this dream because you considered they produce this music in very expensive studios and you will never be able to match the quality and the functions of professional hardware synthesizers.
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