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  • Welcome to LMMS
  • Getting Started
    • FAQ
    • Installation
    • Settings
    • Troubleshooting
    • Reporting a Bug
  • Navigating LMMS
    • Interface Overview
    • Main Menu Bar
    • Toolbar
    • Sidebar
    • Instrument Window
    • Song Editor
    • Beat+Bassline Editor
    • Piano Roll
    • Automation
    • FX Mixer
    • Project Notes
    • Controller Rack
  • PRODUCTION
    • Safety
    • Jumping Right In
    • Instruments: Samples & Presets
    • Creating a Track
    • Using MIDI
    • Using VSTs
    • Exporting a Song
    • Your First Song with LMMS
  • Instruments
    • AudioFileProcessor
    • BitInvader
    • FreeBoy
    • GIG Player
    • Kicker
    • LB302
    • Mallets
    • Monstro
    • NEScaline
    • OpulenZ
    • Organic
    • PatMan
    • SF2 Player
    • sfxr
    • SID
    • Triple Oscillator
    • Vibed
    • Watsyn
    • ZynAddSubFX
    • VeSTige
  • Effects
    • Effects Prologue
    • Amplifier
    • BassBooster
    • Bitcrush
    • Compressor
    • Crossover Equalizer
    • Delay
    • Dual Filter
    • Dynamics Processor
    • Equalizer
    • Flanger
    • Multitap Echo
    • Peak Controller
    • ReverbSC
    • Spectrum Analyzer
    • Stereo Matrix
    • StereoEnhancer
    • Waveshaper
    • LADSPA Plugins
  • Resources
    • Glossary
    • Key Mappings
    • Video Tutorials
    • Sample Resources
    • SoundFont Resources
    • VST Resources
    • Music Making Resources
    • Miscellany
  • Legal
    • License
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  • Minimum System Requirements
  • Recommended System Requirements
  • Installing LMMS
  • Stable, Beta, and Alpha builds
  • Nightly builds
  • Building LMMS from Source Code

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  1. Getting Started

Installation

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Minimum System Requirements

  • OS: Windows 7, MacOS X Lion, Linux

  • CPU: 1.5 GHz x86, x86_64, or ARM-based CPU with 2 cores

  • RAM: 1 GB

  • Available Storage Space: 100 MB

LMMS may run on systems that do not meet these requirements, but its performance or stability is not guaranteed.

Recommended System Requirements

  • OS: Windows 10, MacOS X High Sierra, Linux

  • CPU: 2 GHz x86, x86_64, or ARM-based CPU with 4 cores

  • RAM: 4 GB

  • Available Storage Space: 512 MB

More CPU cores, higher CPU clock speed, and additional RAM will increase LMMS's capacity to handle large projects and more plugins.

Installing LMMS

LMMS is available for , , and .

As of LMMS 1.3.0-alpha, 32-bit (x86) builds of the software are no longer released, and its support has been deprecated.

Stable, Beta, and Alpha builds

Nightly builds

Nightly builds offer bleeding-edge features and bug fixes, at the cost of stability or performance. These builds are mainly intended for testing, but they are able to be downloaded and installed like any other builds nonetheless.

For Windows builds, LMMS offers two build artifacts, MinGW and MSVC.

Building LMMS from Source Code

While packages are available for many Linux distros, the AppImage provided at is the preferred installation method.

Stable, Beta, and Alpha builds may be downloaded at the links above, or through the .

Nightly builds may be downloaded at the links above, or directly through , choose a build output that isn't failing, then head to the "Artifacts" section in the Actions page. Note that a GitHub account is required for downloading them.

Visit the for instructions on how to compile LMMS for Linux.

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