It's not crazy. It's how it's designed. The source code is public and anyone can contribute to it, modify it and distribute the modified version as long as it's free in this sense. That doesn't explicitly mean they can't charge money for the final product, but they have to provide the source code for free.
@@troykeys-applyingprinciples If you know what you're doing, it can do everything FL can do except for live audio recording through a microphone. It doesn't have things such as gross beat obviously, but you can import your own plugins and such.
@@mkhassan3358 Debian is one of the versions of the Linux operating system and Qtracktor is a MIDI sequencer + audio recorder that runs on all versions of Linux including Debian.
btw kyle you can use keyscape in lmms you got gotta create another track with VeSTige and then click plugin file for the vst you wanna use and you can use any VSTs you want to
@@smolle.39 No insta. My only real social media is RU-vid. Hit me up on my channel, any video comment will do. I'm almost always on. Also: Google "LMMS Forum". It's a great community with a combined wealth of knowledge.
True. But there are definitely features missing that FL has and could use a better way to meter. It's definitely cool though for being 100 percent free.
Can't be too mad, though. He said he never looked up how to use the program. ... but yeah, the beats and bassline editor would've made the work a lot smoother.
You seem to be running into the thing that throws off a lot of newbies... Mostly because it doesn't do any auto-leveling and all the sounds are additive, thus it too easily goes into clipping territory fast. (And probably gives it a bad reputation it doesn't deserve.) The quickest fix is to use the fast-lookahead limiter in the master FX channel. Next is lessening the "canned" sound of samples, more or less means messing with the envelopes of anything on the AudioFileProcessor. A lot of people just give up on those though and start using soundfonts or vstis. (However not using included stuff limits being able to share project files.) It gets pretty in-depth for what it is though. Particularly when you start adding more FX channels to better handle mixing and doing stuff with automation tracks. Arpeggiators and LFO's also mean you can do some procedural and pseudo-rack-synth style music too.
In LMMS you have a mixer, channel rack and you can make automations, 808 slide, sidechain and stuff just watch tutos (i started with LMMS before FL Studio and that's the same type of software)
I used lmms all 2019 I got use to it and love it , just got fl20 I didn't like it at first because I was use to lmms but fl is my new love but I will continue to use both depending on what sound I'm working on ......lmms cuts to the chase and makes thing simpler but fl is more complex and versitile
LMMS is lots of tweaking, there is no ready presets, from the plugins you have to build your own sound with the fx and tweaking tweaking tweaking. there is alsopossibilty to send tracks in different channels to the mikser, and add ie delay compressor etc for groups, there is also vst plugin support and with goos samples its actually really ok for bedroom producer. only thing its missing is somekind of sampler plugin, where you can have multiple samples in one plugin to create ie drum kits from samples with out jumping between sample tracks on the song editor or beat and bassline editor,
I am totally new to this kind of software---medium when it comes to music. I downloaded this version because it was free. I was not ready to purchase one that i think would suit me better. Point is---It has been a great starter for me , to say the least. It was nice to see someone who has been using software like this to make music and experience it. Thanks! I have subscribed.
Yes i agree! Your approach was very interesting, because it is kind of a use-case-trial, so seing how you intuitively understood the song-editor, and piano-roll, was neat :p You however did not find the Beat-editor.. I was also surprised that you did not looked at any of the *tabs* in the instruments. Here we have envelopes and filter collections, both can improve the output significantly :P Also there are 1000' of *presets* for selection from the side-bar.
kyle please make another beat on lmms but this time watch a tutorial cuz u really didnt use the software to its full potential. its my main DAW for now and i like it quite alot. so pls make another vid on LMMS
Pretty Dope… Especially considering the fact that you had to work with an unfamiliar DAW. It’s absolutely free! And if you had to start making beats on a budget then you could make a nice little bit of money with LMMS in order to get to the next level.
@@shric9548 'It' *once* stood for Linux MultiMedia Studio, but it does not anymore. That acronym has been ditched, because you can get LMMS for Windows, Linux, and even a version for MAC, that (because of Apple, not LMMS) -Does not support VST. LMMS.. Well in my videos i say 'El'e'ments' :p -witch relates to the modularity of the program.
LMMS is actually viable. I just wish there were more producers giving us tutorials like Cohardt. I love Cohardt. also.. LMMS Stands for Linux Multi Media Studio. Originally created for the Linux OS so they can have a DAW.
Cohardt is incredible. I have one LMMS tutorial I made, and I'd love to make more, but Cohardt already has everything covered. It's tricky to figure out something that he hasn't already done.
YES! There's just so much they could fix about how they work with samples. That's literally my ONLY issue with the program. Everything else is stellar, and more than makes up for that.
ive been using this daw for over 1 year. yeah lmms has its flaws in some places. at least i can make my video game music with it. though some VSTs will be mono depending on how the plugin was made, and when saving tracks its somtimes brakes and suddenly you are now missing some parts of a track and need to replace it, but i use it almost for evrey track i do now and days. also good thing you made with the default stuff that came with the daw!
I used to use LMMS until I changed to FL studio more than a year ago. LMMS is an excellent free software, however many of the effects have no visualizations at all, which can make them hard to use if you have inexperienced ear. But if you know how to tweak knobs and how to use your ear, you can get amazing results. What is a good thing about LMMS, is that it supports third party plugins. I think if you spent more time with LMMS you could get much better results.
INCREDIBLE software. my whole career is based off this program, I prefer it over fl studio not only for it's simplicity but how easily you can bring an idea to life on it
LMMS is not that bad. After 4 years using FL Studio, since this month I'm trying to give a chance to LMMS. My use of LMMS is pretty recent so I probably won't be a good judge of it yet but from what I've seen as of now (and I've used it intensively, like every day for the past 20 days now) I can say that even though it's not perfect, it still has some very good synth sounds and some of them are pretty amazing. As good as the ones found in FL Studio sometimes. Even though it looks a lot like FL Studio, it's quite different in its philosophy. In FL you do a lot of things with the keyboard, in LMMS the mouse is king. But you can basically do everything you do on FL on LMMS as well. FL seems just a little bit more logical to me. Because in LMMS for instance, to erase a note of your melody in the piano roll you have to use the mouse right clic BUT when you have to erase a note on the beat editor for your drums you have to use the mouse wheel button instead. Where's the logic in that ?! To me LMMS has 2 weakness when you compare it to FL Studio (especially for dance music or EDM because that's what I do myself), 1 : the kicks for the drums, they're pretty awful unless you edit them yourself. It's very hard to find good ones ready for use when even the basic ones on FL sound amazing. Maybe it's because LMMS is more urban music oriented when FL is more for dance music or EDM, I don't know but that's how I feel and 2 : when you export your projects they sound much better on FL than on LMMS, I don't know why but it's obvious. Plus LMMS has some bugs (even on the so-called "stable" versions), so you might want to save your projects very often even though when a VST crashes on it, usually LMMS is able to recover your project 9 times out and 10, and sometimes only the VST crash and not the entire program. Plus it's programmed to auto-save everything every 2 minutes, a wise choice, I think, so it's not a very big issue but still. FL Studio seems much more stable to me (even though it can crash too sometimes). So to resume I'd say that if you can afford some serious FL Studio versions (whether its the one that costs 89$ : the fruity edition or better the ones that costs 189$ or more like the producer edition (that's the one I bought by the way), then I'll say go for it because it's really worth the investment, believe me. But if money is really tight or a big problem for you, LMMS is very good too because all you need is a computer basically and the result will be approximatively the same, more or less
Imms doesn’t require you to do anything but download for free. I personally think this is the best alternative from fl studio if you don’t like buying stuff for such music softwares.
Started out with LMMS and going back to it as I see it has been updated. Hope it has had some supported added but it has been updated with a better looking skin. It does have cheesy late 80's and early 90's default samples which will hinder your production style but that's not a big deal as it has a wide range of plugin support and accepts new samples. It is forward compatible with midi. The only thing I dislike about it compared to FL Studio Mobile is the separated drum interface. It is also harder to do collaborations because of file types but is awesome for learning the ropes. Thanks for making this video Kyle.
Also, to highlight something - if you have LMMS and you're using it day in day out... Although it open source and therefore free ... Donate. Throw a bit of cash their way. That way the folks working on it can actually afford to develop it further.... And it won't become another sidelined project that just sits at v1.3 for, well ever...
Lmms would be cool if it didn't produce buggy sound cracks and pops every time there is sound changing. You can hear them constantly at the end of this video too with the final produced beat.
My entire audio lab is LMMS, Hydrogen, Audacity. Two cell phones, one old and one current. One 90's synthesizer, one very cheap MIDI controller. An acoustic guitar, and a kids drum set. That's the whole thing.
Have you used this software since this video? I wish you would make a playlist like your "making a beat" playlist but using lmms. I can't find any lmms tutorials that I like yet.
It's not FLStudios, but I've got some decent tracks from it. Plugins help. It takes more time. like you said. But if you pockets are flat. It great for free.
I use this and am saving up for FL, it's always funny to see someone who doesn't know how to use LMMS use it. You did a lot better then everyone else I've seen.
i remember this was what introduced me into music production back in 2016 and it's crazy how bad and confused i was while using it and seeing this just made me realize how far I've come. Shit's crazy.
I've been using LMMS, and it's actually easy to use once you learn it. Pretty much the only problems with it is that when you put 808s too loud, it adds gain, so you'll have to go in another app to bass boost it, and that chords with 3 or more notes each beat add gain also.
