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 ======LMMS======
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 Install LMMS from [[http://slackbuilds.org]]
-LMMS has the capability to use any number of additional sample packs, soundfonts, and [[synths|soft synths]], so look online at sites like [[http://slackermedia.info/sprints|Slackermedia Sprints]], [[http://freesound.org|Freesound.org]], and sample vendors like [[http://soundonsound.com|SoundOnSound.com]]. Make a collection of loops and samples for yourself. If you spend a little extra time upfront building up a library of tools, you'll be free to be creative when you want to produce.
+LMMS has the capability to use any number of additional sample packs, soundfonts, and [[synths|soft synths]], so look online at sites like [[http://slackermedia.info/sprints|Slackermedia Sprints]], [[http://freesound.org|Freesound.org]], and sample vendors like [[https://sampleswap.org|SampleSwap.org]]. Make a collection of loops and samples for yourself. If you spend a little extra time upfront building up a library of tools, you'll be free to be creative when you want to produce.
 =====LMMS Interface=====
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   *Automation
-These are obviously just suggested starting points, provided just to give you an idea of what is possible and where to begin. Your individual style and workflow depends entirely on what kind of music producer you are. If you're a loop-driven producer, you will most likely be dealing mostly with sample tracks. If you're a skilled musician, you might use sample banks or soundfonts and a MIDI keyboard to play in your own sequences. If you're a synthesist, you might noodle around with some of the soft synths until you reach LFO nirvana. It depends entirely on where you want to go.
+These are just suggested starting points to give you an idea of what is possible and where to begin. Your individual style and workflow depends on what kind of music producer you are. If you're a loop-driven producer, you will most likely be dealing mostly with sample tracks. If you're a skilled musician, you might use sample banks or soundfonts and a MIDI keyboard to play your own sequences. If you're a synthesist, you might noodle around with some of the soft synths until you reach LFO nirvana. It depends entirely on where you want to go.
 On the far left of the LMMS window is a stack of tabbed panels, collapsed by default. Click on them to see for yourself what they contain. You'll find plenty to play with in these tabs, and of course you can add more.
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 If designing sounds from scratch sounds like work to you, that's OK, because LMMS also has the ability to play pre-made patches in the form of //Soundfonts//. Like samples, Soundfonts are digital representations of either real-world sounds or of sythesized waveforms, but they are not full "samples" in the way synth users usually think of samples. The soundfont format was developed by Emu, a pioneering company in the world of digital synthesis, and are small snippets of a full sample, carefully crafted to sound nearly as good but at a fraction of the file size. The advangate, aside from the file size, is that they tend to offer fairly complete sets of sound banks all in one package. Their disadvantage is that they are not full-quality, full-spectrum samples; don't expect a Soundfont of a grand piano to sound exactly like a grand piano, because it will sound somewhat synthesized, or "sampled". So as long as you're not a serious audiophile, download as many soundfonts as you please from [[http://hammersound.net/cgi-bin/soundlink.pl]] or get a harvest of over 394 of them from [[http://slackermedia.info/sprints]].
-To use a Soundfont, use the Sf2 Player plugin in the Instrument Plugins tab. Just drag it into your Song Editor, and then click it once to configure. In the Sf2 Player window, point the player to your Soundfont file. The default patch is loaded, and you can now use the player as you would any other instrument in LMMS. Many Soundfont files have multiple patches, so click the Patch menu to select which patch you want to use within that Soundfont file.
+To use a Soundfont, use the **Sf2 Player** plugin in the **Instrument Plugins** tab. Just drag it into your **Song Editor**, and then click its entry once to configure. In the **Sf2 Player** window, point the player to your Soundfont file. The default patch is loaded, and you can now use the player as you would any other instrument in LMMS. Many Soundfont files have multiple patches, so click the Patch menu to select which patch you want to use within that Soundfont file.
-Add effects to Soundfont Player in order to manipulate the sound. Envelope and LFO controls are not available on Soundfonts, but with over 100 LADSPA, Calf, and Invada plugins, you will probably find quite enough to keep your fingers tweaking knobs.
-Another option for pre-built sounds is Freepats, or “Free Patterns”. These are pre-made sound patches that are played through the Patman synthesizer in LMMS. These are not samples, so you have total freedom to manipulate and customise the sounds should you choose.
+Add effects to **Sf2 Player** in order to manipulate the sound. Envelope and LFO controls are not available on Soundfonts, but with over 100 LADSPA, Calf, and Invada plugins, you will probably find quite enough to keep your fingers tweaking knobs.
-The Patman plugin is found, like Soundfont Player, in the Instrument Plugins tab on the left of the LMMS window.
-Samples
-The term “sample” is a broad one in modern music, but strictly speaking, it means that a sound that was pre-recorded is being used in a production as if though it were an instrument itself. This might mean that someone has sat down and sampled every single key press of a grand piano (often at different velocities) and saved each sound as a full quality sound file, which is then mapped to a corresponding key on a virtual keyboard. Or it might simply mean that a music producer rather liked a drum beat used in an old classic, and recorded a bar or two so that the beat could be recycled in a new song. Or maybe you have just sampled some dialogue from an old movie and want to play it back during your track.
+====FreePats====
-Figure 6: Three fine samplers included with LMMS.
-LMMS features the basic Audio File Processor, a plugin that will not only play a sample file when triggered, but that will even allow you to adjust things like the in and out ponts of a sample's playback, envelopes and LFO, and pitch. It's a fine sample player for all but the most complex sampling needs. LMMS even ships with a few simple samples to get you started; find them in the My Samples tab on the left.
+Another option for pre-built sounds is Freepats, or “Free Patterns”. These are pre-made sound patches that are played through the **Patman** synthesizer in LMMS. These are not samples, so you have total freedom to manipulate and customise the sounds should you choose.
+The **Patman** plugin is found, like Soundfont Player, in the **Instrument Plugins** tab on the left of the LMMS window.
+====Samples====
+The term “sample” is a broad one in modern music, but strictly speaking, it means that a sound that was pre-recorded is being used in a production as if though it were an instrument itself. This might mean that someone has sat down and sampled every single key press of a grand piano (often at different velocities) and saved each sound as a full quality sound file, which is then mapped to a corresponding key on a virtual keyboard. Or it might simply mean that a music producer rather liked a drum beat used in an old classic, and recorded a bar or two so that the beat could be recycled in a new song. Or maybe you have just sampled some dialogue from an old movie and want to play it back during your track.
 {{ lmms_samplers.png }}
-What LMMS does not have is a full-blown key-mapping sampler player. If your goal is to map 4 sets of pressure-sensitive chromatic samples to 88 keys of the keyboard, then you will need to fall back on a dedicated sampler, like Linux Sampler, which can import GIGA files and other popular formats.
+LMMS features the basic **Audio File Processor**, a plugin that will not only play a sample file when triggered, but that will even allow you to adjust things like the in and out ponts of a sample's playback, envelopes and LFO, and pitch. It's a fine sample player for basic sampling needs. LMMS even ships with a few simple samples to get you started; find them in the **My Samples** tab on the left.
-MIDI Controllers
+What LMMS does not have is a full-blown key-mapping sampler player. If your goal is to map 4 sets of pressure-sensitive chromatic samples to 88 keys of the keyboard, then you will need to fall back on a dedicated sampler, like [[sampler|Linux Sampler]], which can import GIGA files and other popular formats.
+=====MIDI Controllers=====
 MIDI traditionally was its own protocol and hardware (in the form of cable design) and it revolutionised how electronic musicians were able to record. MIDI is still alive and well, but it also has been virtualised, in the form of USB [piano, not typing] keyboards. These use another kind of revolutionary cable, USB, to send signals to the computer, which uses a MIDI driver to pass those signals on to MIDI-aware software synthesizers.
 MIDI controllers usually are a breeze to use with Linux because most of them just send generic signals to the computer and let the MIDI driver do all the hard work. Some of the really complex controllers with foot pedals and inbuilt drumpads will attempt to do some fancy pre-processing and require special drivers to work, so due diligence is always required; look online to see how others have faired with whatever MIDI controller you are considering purchasing.
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 In LMMS, navigate to the plugin you want to control with your controller and click the plugin's MIDI tab. In the MIDI tab, click the keyboard icon in the Enable MIDI Input section and select the MIDI device (it is usually identified by either the manufacturer or the model). If you have a multi-channel keyboard, you can assign a specific MIDI channel to that plugin.
-To record a sequence into LMMS, open the Piano Roll Editor at the position in the Song Editor you want your sequence to play. Press the Record button and start tickling the ivory.
-Exporting
+To record a sequence into LMMS, open the **Piano Roll Editor** at the position in the **Song Editor** you want your sequence to play. Press the **Record** button and proceed in tickling the ivory.
-Writing, performing, and mixing music is hard work. The easy part is exporting. In order to get your masterpiece out of LMMS for others to hear, navigate to the File menu and select Export. LMMS can export to two file formats: uncompressed WAV and compressed Ogg Vorbis (an open source audio codec, and an HTML5 web standard codec). If you intend to post your music online on your own server, or listen to your music on Linux or in VLC on any platform, Ogg Vorbis will work great for you. Otherwise, you should export as WAV, which is a “standard” uncompressed audio codec mostly because it's been around for so long. Its main problem is that it's big, so if you export as WAV, if you intend to send it to friends or put it on a non-open music player, then you'll need to compress it to something like .m4a or .mp3.
-The simplest way to convert WAV files to other formats is to use Sound Converter (an installable package, see the table of packages at the beginning of this article). Sound converter is simple to use because its sole purpose in life is to just convert audio. So launch the application, open your WAV file, choose your export format and location, and let Sound Converter do its work.
-Sharing
+===== Exporting =====
+Writing, performing, and mixing music is hard work. The easy part is exporting. In order to get your masterpiece out of LMMS for others to hear, navigate to the File menu and select Export. LMMS can export to two file formats: uncompressed ''WAV'' and compressed ''Ogg Vorbis'' (an open source audio codec, and an HTML5 web standard codec). If you intend to post your music online on your own server, or listen to your music on Linux or in VLC on any platform, Ogg Vorbis will work great for you. Otherwise, you should export as WAV, which is a “standard” uncompressed audio codec mostly because it's been around for so long. Its main problem is that it's big, so if you export as WAV, if you intend to send it to friends or put it on a non-open music player, then you'll need to compress it to something like ''.m4a'' or ''.mp3''.
+The simplest way to convert WAV files to other formats is to use [[sox]] or [[ffmpeg]].
+=====Sharing=====
+LMMS has a diverse and active community surrounding it, and accordingly it even has its own [[https://lmms.io/lsp|sharing platform]]. Available an the LMMS Sharing Platform are samples, pre-sets, projects, tutorials, themes, and more. If you like LMMS and want to explore it in-depth, this is a must-see web resource.
-https://lmms.io/lsp/
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-hydrogen \\
+[[hydrogen|Hydrogen]] \\
-ardour \\
+[[ardour|Ardour]] \\
-muse \\
+[[muse|MusE]] \\
-rosegarden \\
+[[rosegarden|Rrosegarden]] \\
-qtractor
+[[qtractor|Qtractor]]
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