The Entire History of LMMS

so we've covered a lot of Daws here on my channel but none of them are quite like this one when this topic was first recommended to me by one of my Discord members I had never even heard of it and I consider myself to be fairly deep into the music production scene so I was surprised by how many people use it after doing some reading about it I came to the conclusion that lmms is sort of the black sheep of the audio workstation world but instead of that being a bad thing like Batman and Robin it's more like Halloween 3. it goes off and does its own thing and actually innovates and succeeds where others have failed opinions from content creators and producers about it range from it being the most confusing dot ever all the way to being God's gift to mankind to me it's sort of somewhere in between because its layout is somewhat similar to FL Studio which made it easier for me to grasp as a newcomer lmms previously known as Linux multimedia studio is a digital audio workstation that's open source much like audacity which we covered in a previous video the interesting thing here is that there's less than a grain of Sands worth of information about its history on the internet so we kind of head to Sherlock Holmes this one to Cobble together a somewhat cohesive timeline I can't pronounce his name properly but from what I could tell it was originally created by Tobias junguns but has since been developed by a bunch of different people unsurprisingly this guy is basically a ghost online outside of a bear LinkedIn profile and his GitHub page so I don't have much information on it sadly his last contribution to lmms was in 2018 according to the GitHub changelogs I did ask the lmms Discord server which we'll talk about later if Tobias still worked on the project and most of the members there said no finally I did hunt down his email address and shot him an email in the hopes that maybe he'd respond and answer some questions but sadly there was no luck with that that's pretty much the only information I could find about the origins of LMS so let's get into its early versions and why I think it deserves more attention than it gets first off it was created under the gpl2 or general public license when a piece of software is released under this license it guarantees end users the Four Freedoms laid out by the license which are to run study share and modify the software as they please I think this is the core of what makes LMS unique because there is an extremely limited number of Daws that are open source and free to use like this there's a very active development Community surrounding it and it's receiving updates that are right far faster than any other commercially available Daw out there from what I could tell the first version was 0.0.1 released in 2004 when the software name was still Linux multimedia Studio instead of the shortened version lmms sadly I couldn't even find screenshots let alone video of this version I did try installing them because loms hosts every single major version chains online but sadly it gave errors on startups similar to version 1 of freely Loops it's unclear what types of features they had because the versions uploaded to GitHub have no documentation and I couldn't open them myself so if anyone has screenshots or use the program back then please comment below because tracking down info about these early versions would be really interesting anyways moving on to the versions that have some info about them we'll be skipping ahead a few years by version 0.3.0 you could see LMS forming into a truly functional Daw it actually feels quite similar to FL Studio with the separation of patterns and a step sequencer for your drums that can also host midi patterns its layout and style is very early 2000s and all of its elements are disconnected and free-floating like FL Studios which I'm personally a fan of the piano roll even looks like you're entering the Matrix or something like that this would also be the time period where support for VST effect plugins was added which was a huge deal because of how popular VST was becoming during the time period we'd also see a few new plugins is native to LMS like lb302 which was a monophonic bass synth mallets would also be introduced which was described as a sample based synth emulating tuneful things to bang on some other minor things would be fixed and added like no detuning or improved automation but for the most part it was still finding its place amongst a sea of other Daws in 0.4 there was even a mixer added with an effect chain on each insert a big change here was the fact that all parameters could now be controlled with an LFO or MIDI controller that were housed in a new controller window new plugins would continue to come in in every major version with 0.4 bringing in chiptune based plugins with the addition of Sid and Papu I couldn't find much info on Papu but it seemed like it was a plug-in meant to emulate the hardware of a Nintendo Game Boy time signatures outside the basic 4-4 signature were now possible as well in version 0.4 after reading about all these different Daws in their development Journey it's actually quite interesting how different people go down different paths adding things in a far different order however with the most recent versions of all these programs they'll all end up in a place where most of them can do anything you want just in their own unique way the piano roll would also get a nice upgrade here with more options for individual notes like panning and became easier to work with When selecting multiple notes and moving them around later on in 0.4 it'd finally be possible to automate parameters of bsts however most of these updates were fairly small in scale in comparison to what was coming next 10 years after its initial release version 1.0 would finally come out in March of 2014 with a massive array of changes and updates firstly the interface would get a makeover becoming a bit more polished and modern but keeping its original 2000 Style on the plug-in side of things we'd see a wave shaper much like the one in FL Studio which is one of my personal favorite types of Effect one of the more well-known plugins also came in this version which is called opulence which is an FM synth something I noticed early on is how cohesive all the plugins look not only in size but in art style it's something that's kind of bugged me with FL Studio where plugins from different areas of the software look vastly different from each other but in LMS they've kept it relatively simple and 2D throughout version 1 there is a bunch of quality of life updates like vector-based automation custom waveforms for lfos and timeline improvements version 1.1 would add a few new instruments as well including nescaline which is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen come stock with a Daw it's a synthesizer modeled after the Nintendo Entertainment Systems Hardware emulating all the different sounds that it makes and it even looks like an NES controller which is just the cherry on top Watson would also be added here as well which is a wave table synth like serum except it's extremely condensed we'd also see mixer chaining and routing added here as well allowing for an unlimited amount of effect channels and in version 1.2 we'd see a classic plug-in added which was a visualized parameter metric EQ along with a few different effects like a bit Crusher sadly this is where the lmms journey ends for now as version 1.2 is the latest stable release although there is version 1.3 available to try which is an alpha however before we conclude there are a few other things I'd like to talk about that aren't directly related to the program itself the Gob might be the single greatest resource that I had at my disposal writing this script however short it is and I wish more companies would host previous versions and documentation online for its users to explore imageline does host its older versions on a forum and has a history section on their site but outside that it's pretty hard to find old versions of different software in the music industry let alone from a first Party Source if you ever want to see what old versions of LMS looked like yourself you can download them for free and peruse at your own pace not only that but you can see in detail how the program evolved over time with a pretty in-depth amount of change logs for each version on top of being able to see how many different collaborators there are working on the project this is something that I find to be the most interesting thing about LMS it's not created by a big company and it doesn't cost money because it's a passion project for the people who develop it this is the same reason I think audacity is one of the most important programs of its time and still is to this day anyways I think the developers placed everything on GitHub otherwise I'm not sure this video would have even been possible moving on to the final section of this video the loms community so aside from LMS being open source the other thing I find interesting about it is the community that surrounds it specifically this subreddit and Discord server the subreddit is not exactly the most active but for being as small as it is there's still multiple posts every day on the other hand the LMS Discord server is one of the most tight-knit and active communities I've ever seen when it comes to music they're just shy of 7 000 members on the server with anywhere from 500 to a thousand people online at any time which was shocking to me considering I'd never heard of the program before the best thing about the server though is the fact that people have direct contact with the people who develop the program so they can report bugs suggest features or simply talk about what they enjoy in fact the other day while I was on the server just lurking someone discovered the default equalizer in lmms had been bugged ever since its release over 15 years ago and was being worked on right in front of my eyes some members even provided me with extremely old screenshots of LMS to help with my video so I'll leave a link to the Discord server if you're interested in joining but that just about wraps up everything if there's anything you learned from this video I hope it's that there are always going to be cool new things to discover online in whatever Community you're a part of and it's worth looking a bit deeper into those things LMS is definitely the most unique doll I've written a script about so if you have any other weird or intriguing software you want me to talk about please leave a comment below I know the video is short but I hope you guys enjoyed it anyway thank you guys for watching stay safe out there and I'll see you in the next video

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 29 2023