Skip to content
whatismyalternative

LMMS

A free, cross-platform digital audio workstation for making music on your computer.

Visit LMMS

LMMS is a free, open source digital audio workstation for Windows, Linux and macOS. It provides a single interface for composing melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, and sequencing, automating and mixing songs, with note playback through a MIDI or typing keyboard.

Its core tools include the Beat+Bassline Editor, Piano Roll Editor, and user-defined track automation, along with MIDI and Hydrogen project file import. It ships with 16 built-in synthesizers, embedded ZynAddSubFx synthesis, SoundFont, Giga and Gravis UltraSound multisample support, 64-bit VST instrument support with a 32-bit VST bridge on 64-bit Windows, LADSPA and VST effect plug-ins, built-in compressor, limiter, delay, reverb, distortion, bass enhancer, equalizers and a spectrum analyzer.

LMMS is aimed at musicians producing music on a computer. It is distributed as a free, open source project under community development and hosted on GitHub, with downloads available for Linux, Windows and macOS.

12 alternatives to LMMS

Ranked by how well each tool replaces LMMS: shared features, audience, price and popularity.

  1. Ardour

    Record, edit, and mix audio and MIDI on Linux, macOS and Windows

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    60 out of 100 matchFree

  2. Audacity

    Free, open source audio editor and recorder

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    59 out of 100 matchFree

  3. Mixxx

    Free DJ mixing software for live mixes with digital music files

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    56 out of 100 matchFree

  4. REAPER

    Audio Production Without Limits

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    56 out of 100 match—

  5. Bitwig Studio

    Next-generation music production and performance software for creating, arranging, and mod

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free plan
    55 out of 100 matchContact sales

  6. winLAME

    An easy to use encoder for many audio formats, including MP3, Opus, Ogg Vorbis and more.

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free plan
    54 out of 100 matchContact sales

  7. OpenMPT

    A tracker application for writing and playing music on Windows, based on the original Mod.

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    54 out of 100 matchFree

  8. Kdenlive

    Free and open source non-linear video editor from the KDE community

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    54 out of 100 matchContact sales

  9. OpenShot

    Free, open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free planOpen source
    54 out of 100 matchFree

  10. Tracktion

    Creative tools for creative minds

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free plan
    54 out of 100 match$30/mo

  11. MediaHuman

    Multimedia software for everyday use.

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free plan
    53 out of 100 matchContact sales

  12. My Music Tools

    Free Download MP3 and Audio Software for Windows PC - The Music Soft from the Whole World

    Covers 0 of 15 key features.

    Free plan
    52 out of 100 matchFree