LMMS

LMMS Tutorial Part 4: Custom Sounds, Instruments And Other Tricks

In previous articles, you were introduced into the basics of LMMS, and using sound files and presets as instruments for your songs. Also, you were shown a few sound effect plugins using the FM Mixer interface. This series concludes by showing you some of the techniques that I use when composing music with LMMS. Hopefully, you will be able to experiment further with the features that LMMS has to offer and find a way to use these tools (and other ones) in a way that works for you. How To

LMMS Guide Part 3: Panning, Volume, And Sound Effects

This guide will demonstrate how you can adjust the volume and panning of tracks, beats, and even individual notes. I will also demonstrate a few sound effect plugins that come with LMMS as well to play around with. In previous tutorials, there was a quick tour of the LMMS interface showing where the sounds and instruments are located, how to use the beat/bassline editor, the piano roll, basically, everything needed to get started right away creating melodies. The previous guide showed ho

LMMS Guide Part 2: Tempo, Time Signatures, Beats and Bass Lines

We continue on from part 1 of the LMMS tutorial where we got to do a little experimenting with melodies and beats using the sounds, instruments that came with LMMS. Today we begin exploring options of how to compose music with different time signatures, tempo, or beats per minute. We will also continue to experiment with drum tracks and basslines. Tempo and Time Signatures LMMS allows you to change the beats per minute of the entire project. The lower the number, the slower the pie

LMMS Guide Part 1: Creating Simple Melodies Using Sounds And Instruments

LMMS stands for Linux Multimedia Studio. It is a very good open-source program that is used to create music tracks using sound files, predefined instruments, and sound effects. LMMS has versions for Windows and macOS in addition to Linux. Their website, of course, lists all of their features offered to users. This article will attempt to provide practical guides and tips for composing songs using LMMS. The version I will be using in these tutorials is 1.1.3. I shall include sheet music a

LMMS A Music Production App For Linux

LMMS is an audio workstation for audio designers and hobbies (yes that’s right). Still better it’s FOSS + it’s available for multiple Operating Systems and that gives you the great opportunity to recommend your music pals this great piece of tool. Setting it up: Fire up your terminal emulator and key in this command to install LMMS on your Ubuntu. sudo apt install lmms …done? Now to open LMMS you need to press this key combination alt+f2 then type in LMMS (and the rest dep