Linux MultiMedia Studio 0.4.0
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Copyright (c) 2004-2008 by LMMS-developers


This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.



What is LMMS?
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LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed-
source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of
producing music with your computer by creating/synthesizing sounds, arranging
samples, using effects, playing live with keyboard and much more...

LMMS combines the features of a sequencer-program (pattern-/channel-/
sample-/song-/effect-management) and those of powerful synthesizers and
samplers in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface.

LMMS is still in heavy development, so with this version please don't expect a
complete, ready and bugfree program!!



Requirements
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The most important requirement is for sure a fast computer, so don't try to get
LMMS working on a pentium I with 60 MHz... ;-) Therefore you should have at
least 500 MHz, but for really enjoying LMMS less than 1 GHz makes no sense...


Required libraries:

- Qt >= 4.3.0 with devel-files

Optional, but strongly recommended:
- JACK with devel-files
- libvorbis with devel-files
- libalsa with devel-files
- SDL_sound (tested with 0.1.5 & 1.0.1) with devel-files
- SDL with devel-files
- libsamplerate with devel-files
- libsndfile with devel-files
- WINE + WINE-devel-files
- stk, libstk + libstk-dev
- festival-devel-files and default-voice

For compiling you should have an up to date GCC with g++.

If you have problems with compiling or running LMMS, find any bug or have
suggestions and so on, please feel free to e-mail me (for mail-address see
below)!



Building
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See INSTALL for information on how to build LMMS.

Please also take a look at

./configure --help

There you'll see a lot of options which partly might be interesting for you.
For example if you want to build LMMS with VST-support, you have to run
configure with --with-vst switch. Otherwise LMMS support won't be built!



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

The project-homepage of LMMS, mailingslists and a list of things you can do
can be found at

http://lmms.sourceforge.net


Details on development can be found at

http://lmms.sourceforge.net/development.php

or in the Wiki:

http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/

Before coding a new big feature, please ALWAYS post your idea and suggestions
about your feature and about the intended implementation to the
LMMS-devel-mailinglist (lmms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net) and wait for replies!
Maybe there're different ideas, improvements, hints or maybe your feature is
not welcome/needed at the moment.
