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InstrumentPlayHandle-driven instruments (i.e. instruments producing only one sound stream for all notes) are running all the time even if no notes are running. The plugin itself usually does not consume much CPU time while silent but all effects afterwards inside LMMS unneccessarily consume lots of CPU time for processing silent buffer. Typical case: a song with lots of instruments like ZynAddSubFX. With this change, all processing is skipped on silent buffers which notably decreases CPU load for many projects. All effects in following effect chains continue to run until they're silent as well. Closes #267.
Linux MultiMedia Studio
What is LMMS?
LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio (R), which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.
Features
- Song-Editor for composing songs
- A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and basslines
- An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
- An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow unlimited mixing possibilities
- 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
- Import of MIDI and FLP (Fruityloops(R) Project) files
Building
See Compiling LMMS on our wiki for information on how to build LMMS.
Join LMMS-development
If you are interested in LMMS, it's programming, artwork, testing, writing demo-songs, (and improving this readme…) or something like that, you're welcome to participate on the development of LMMS!
Information about what you can do and how can be found in the wiki.
Before coding a new big feature, please always file an issue for your idea and suggestions about your feature and about the intended implementation on GitHub or post 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.