LMMS(1)

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💖 LMMS 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the LMMS(1) page — yes it's a General Commands Manual, and yes it's about to be your new obsession. this is the manual for lmms, and we're gonna walk through it together like it's a group chat at 2am. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

lmms — software for easy music production 🎹🌸

like... it's giving "make beats on your laptop and feel like a main character." periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lmms [global options...] [action [action parameters...]]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you give it global options, maybe an action, maybe some action parameters, and it does the thing. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

bestie. listen. LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which let you produce music with your computer. 🔥

and that includes, like, everything:

  • the creation of melodies and beats 🥁
  • the synthesis and mixing of sounds 🎚️
  • arranging of samples 🎼

and you can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more — all in a user-friendly and modern interface. it's literally iconic. 🦋

LMMS features components such as a Song Editor, a Beat+Bassline Editor, a Piano Roll, an FX Mixer, as well as many powerful instruments and effects. ✨ the way that's a whole studio in one app?? obsessed.

🌈 ACTIONS 🌈

here's where you tell LMMS what to actually do. pick your fighter:

  • <no action> [options...] [project] — start LMMS in normal GUI mode. just vibing, windows open, you're the artist. 🎨
  • dump in — dump the XML of the compressed (MMPZ) file in. like unzipping the soul of a project file. 👀
  • render project [options...] — render the given project file. turn your song into an actual audio file, slay. 🎧
  • rendertracks project [options...] — render each track to a different file. one file per track, no sharing, everyone gets their own moment. 👑
  • upgrade in [out] — upgrade file in and save it as out. if you don't specify an output file, standard out gets used instead. 🫶

💜 GLOBAL OPTIONS 💜

these work no matter what, they're the universal besties:

  • --allowroot — bypass the root user startup check. ⚠️ > use with caution, bestie. the manpage literally says "(use with caution)" and we are not gonna ignore that. 😭
  • -c, --config configfile — get the configuration from configfile instead of ~/.lmmsrc.xml (which is the default). ✨
  • -h, --help — show usage information and exit. the classic "help meeee" button. 🙈
  • -v, --version — show version information and exit. a little "who even are you" moment. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS IF NO ACTION IS GIVEN 🎀

so if you didn't pick an action, these are the ones in play:

  • --geometry geometry — specify the preferred size and position of the main window. the geometry syntax is xsizexysize+xoffset+yoffset. Default: full screen. 🌸
  • --import in -e — import MIDI or Hydrogen file in. bringing in the goods. 🦋

⭐ OPTIONS FOR RENDER AND RENDERTRACKS ⭐

okay this is the section for when you're exporting audio, and it is stacked:

  • -a, --float — use 32bit float bit depth. fancy precision energy. 💖
  • -b, --bitrate bitrate — specify output bitrate in KBit/s (for OGG encoding only), default is 160. 🎵
  • -f, --format format — specify format of render-output, where format is either 'wav', 'ogg' or 'mp3'. 👑
  • -i, --interpolation method — specify interpolation method — possible values are linear, sincfastest (default), sincmedium, sincbest. 🌈
heads up bestie: if -e is specified, lmms exits after importing the file.
  • -l, --loop — render the given file as a loop, i.e. stop rendering at exactly the end of the song. additional silence or reverb tails at the end of the song are not rendered. clean cut, no crumbs. ✂️
  • -m, --mode stereomode — set the stereo mode used for the MP3 export. stereomode can be either 's' (stereo mode), 'j' (joint stereo) or 'm' (mono). if no mode is given, 'j' is used as the default. 💀
  • -o, --output path — render into path.
    • for --render, this is interpreted as a file path.
    • for --render-tracks, this is interpreted as a path to an existing directory. 📁
  • -p, --profile out — dump profiling information to file out. receipts, but for performance. 🔍
  • -s, --samplerate samplerate — specify output samplerate in Hz — range is 44100 (default) to 192000. 🎚️
  • -x, --oversampling value — specify oversampling, possible values: 1, 2 (default), 4, 8. extra smooth, extra slay. ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go touch some grass (or these links):

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Tobias Doerffel <todydox/at/users.sourceforge.net>, Paul Giblock and others. see AUTHORS for details. absolute legends, every one of them. 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this manual is from September 10, 2018, and it's the LMMS(1) page, part of the General Commands Manual. now go make something iconic. 🎶✨💅
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