{"id":75,"date":"2008-08-21T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T23:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2008-11-24T19:19:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T01:19:39","slug":"75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/archives\/75","title":{"rendered":"LMMS review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I have been trying out <a href=\"http:\/\/lmms.sourceforge.net\">LMMS<\/a> (Linux MultiMedia Studio) and have been quite impressed. Don&#8217;t let the name scare you away, there is also a Windows version if you haven&#8217;t upgraded to Linux yet :).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is a full-featured product that allows musicians to create samples, create tracks, add effects to audio files, and record from MIDI instruments. Adding effects to pre-existing audio allows you to record vocals in a program like <a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\">Audacity<\/a>, import it as a sample, add filters and distortion, and then make the entire file one track. The ability to create your own samples in the same composition program saves a lot of time that would be wasted between copying the sound between multiple programs.<\/p>\n<p>The learning curve can be steep with LMMS but, fortunately, it comes with several example songs to examine. There are also a number of tutorials online, including step-by-step video tutorials on YouTube. I was able to figure out what most of the knobs and sliders did by loading existing samples and adjusting the controls one at a time. This method of learning can be extremely beneficial as you can hear your results immediately; the sample creation tools have a miniature keyboard on the bottom part of the window that can be used to test them.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to compose a short song on the second night of experimenting with LMMS, and by the next week had written <a href=\"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/?p=17\">Eff-Bahm<\/a>, my first full-length track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I have been trying out LMMS (Linux MultiMedia Studio) and have been quite impressed. Don&#8217;t let the name scare you away, there is also a Windows version if you haven&#8217;t upgraded to Linux yet :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[122,124,123,38,121,44,45,715,81],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utilities","tag-audacity","tag-compose","tag-eff-bahm","tag-free","tag-lmms","tag-oss","tag-software","tag-utilities","tag-utility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/music.ballweb.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}