0.4:Manual
From LMMS Wiki
Introduction
Short, introductory pages on each topic, establishing what you need to run LMMS and understand this document.
Requirements
Installing LMMS
Compiling LMMS (advanced users/developers)
Tutorials
Step-by-step task-oriented guides to achieving particular goals in LMMS.
Beginners:
Getting Started - a brief walk-through for the impatient
- Your First Song with LMMS - a more step-by-step tutorial
- Your first beat
- Your first bass
- Your first melody
- Your first arp
- Your first automation
- Your first vocals
- Your first effects (FX)
- Your first song
Advanced:
- Making Triple-Oscillator patches - Guidelines for creating useful triple-oscillator patches
- Sidechaining - how to sidechain using the FX-Mixer and a peak controller
- Autotune Tutorial - how to sound like T-Pain or fix vocal pitch using GSnap autotune
Manual
A reference style description of the functions of each menu item and tool, including how it fits in with the tasks in the Using LMMS section.
- Main Menu Bar
- Tool Bar
- Side Bar
- Instrument Plugins
- Instrument Editor
- Song Editor
- Beat + Bassline Editor
- Piano Roll Editor
- Automation Editor
- FX Mixer
- Project Notes
- Controller Rack
- LMMS Settings
- Key Mappings
Using LMMS Elements
A thematic description of how the various tools/elements in LMMS work.
Working with Instruments
Working with Samples
Composing in the Piano Roll Editor
Composing Bass Lines and Drum Sequences
Putting the song together
Working with Automation
Working with LADSPA effects
Working with VSTs effects
Working with Controllers
Working with Effects and the Mixer
Working with VSTs
Using MIDI
Exporting the Song
Appendices
This is a contents page only - all actual articles are supposed to be linked from here. The rationale behind the structure of this page can be found at the Wikipedia article on Software Documentation.
