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LMMS Music

A global community creating free, open-source music production software.

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Open-source DAW combining piano-roll, pattern sequencer, and mixer, with VST and SoundFont2 plugin hosting.

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buildAlone/lmms-music★ 10 forksC++GPL-2.0Created Aug 24, 2025 · last push Aug 24, 2025

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What is LMMS?
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LMMS is an open-source cross-platform digital audio workstation designed for music production. It includes an advanced Piano Roll, Beat Sequencer, Song Editor, and Mixer for composing, arranging, and mixing music. It comes with 15+ synthesizer plugins by default, along with VST(i) and SoundFont2 support.

Features
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* Song-Editor for arranging melodies, samples, patterns, and automation
* Pattern-Editor for creating beats and patterns
* An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
* A Mixer with unlimited mixer channels and arbitrary number of effects
* Many powerful instrument and effect-plugins out of the box
* Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources
* Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and full MIDI support
* MIDI file importing and exporting

Building
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See [Compiling LMMS](https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/wiki/Compiling)

Join LMMS-development
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If you are interested in LMMS, its programming, artwork, testing, writing demo songs, (and improving this README...) or something like that, you're welcome to participate in the development of LMMS!

Information about what you can do and how can be found in the [wiki](https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/wiki).

Before coding a new big feature, please _always_ [file an issue](https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/new) for your idea and suggestions about your feature and a

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