lmms VS BespokeSynth

Compare lmms vs BespokeSynth and see what are their differences.

lmms

Cross-platform music production software (by LMMS)

BespokeSynth

Software modular synth (by BespokeSynth)
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lmms BespokeSynth
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7,486 3,850
2.1% 2.7%
9.3 8.5
4 days ago 7 days ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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lmms

Posts with mentions or reviews of lmms. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-26.
  • Studio One 6.5 is now available as public beta version for Ubuntu Linux
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
  • If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023
    # Topic 2: Dasher + Guitar Hero style music theory/improvisation practice program

    Back "on topic": I remember being quite enamoured/fascinated by dasher when I first encountered it. It's quite a unique interaction paradigm with the constant "forward movement" and "intelligent" pre-filtering/constraint of options with size-based prioritization.

    Your suggestion to extend this interaction style for use in the music theory domain immediately appealed to me, as it intersects with some musical things I've been thinking about/playing with recently.

    Over the past couple of years I've been playing around with ("rules based" rather than ML) procedural music generation primarily in the context of games.

    This has been motivated by a couple of things: partly a procgen project is helpful as a driver for gaining an deeper understanding of music theory which I would like to develop for my own composition/production; and, I'm really interested in exploring ways of providing people with the experience of actually composing/creating their own music--which is something I think many people perceive as something only "musicians"/"composers" can do.

    The latter is driven my own music composition/creation/education experience: I learned piano as a kid for about a year until it was "mutually agreed" that if I wasn't going to practice perhaps it would be best to stop. :D But I've always really enjoyed music, particularly electronic/dance/EDM, and wanted to also create it & not just consume it--over the years I played around a tiny amount with creating some but gravitated toward DJing as my primary means of musical expression.

    Then a few years ago I started "more seriously" creating tracks with LMMS (a FLOSS DAW https://lmms.io) and while progress was slow it was still nice to be able to enjoy the results.

    But I grew frustrated/dissatisfied by the fact that I didn't really know how to add more of a melodic component to my music. (I'm an Anthemic Trance guy from way back. :D )

    Over a couple of years after butting my head up against Music Theory a few times and bouncing off again (not unlike my experience with Rust :D ) one day I suddenly somehow "saw" some of the (simplified) Music Theory patterns/rules that I'd not internalised/understood previously.

    And then I could add melody to my tracks! :o I mean they weren't masterpieces but it sounded like music! It blew my mind. :)

    Not long after I realised something I found quite profound: it felt like music, instrument skills & music theory had only ever been presented to me as a thing that you did so you could play other people's music but I never wanted to play other people's music, I wanted to create my own!

    Which then triggered a period of "Why didn't anyone teach me years ago when I was a kid that you could create your own music by starting with a few simple rules & building on them? Here I was "many" years later voluntarily learning about music theory, trying to apply it and even practising scales! :o

    Anyway, that experience made me wonder if other people have experienced music & its creation in the same way and what opportunities there might be (particularly within a game/casual context) to provide those people with their first taste of creating music through a "guided" experience of just playing (in both senses of the word).

    So, yeah, the "Guitar Dasher"/"Piano Dasher" concept aligns quite nicely with that. :)

    Not that anyone asked me. :D

    Couple of related things:

    * Your suggestion also reminded me of another FLOSS DAW I played around with called Helio which has a "chord tool" (https://docs.helio.fm/tips-and-tricks.html#chord-tool) which appears as a pie-menu pre-populated with chords that fit with the current scale/root. I seem to recall that there are commercial DAWs that also have a similar UI.

    * While I'm not particularly happy with its current state (really need to upload the most recent version of the code, which I'm fractionally happier with) here's my first foray into music procgen for a game jam entry (with a "debug quality UI" for controlling the output), if you're interested in checking it out: https://rancidbacon.itch.io/the-conductor

    * And from a different angle here's another game jam entry where the concept I was playing with was essentially using music theory concepts as the basis for creating combat interactions/patterns (e.g. "Oh, no, how am I going to harmonize with whatever that was that the boss just played?!") and it all takes place on the "Grand Staff"/"Great Stave": https://rancidbacon.itch.io/stave-off

    (Unfortunately as often seems to be the case I ended up spending more time fighting with a Unicode music engraving font/standard than I did writing game play for that last one. :) )

  • Linux for Video Editing and Photo Editing and Music DJ: Some idea?
    5 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 4 Jun 2023
    For music making, it kind of depends on what you use normally but LMMS is a decent free DAW.
  • My dual boot with windows 11 won't boot past intro screen or even into bios after failed attempt to fix frequent Kerbal panic.
    2 projects | /r/debian | 27 May 2023
    Give a try to Ardour, LMMS, MusE and Rosegarden.
  • Resources and such
    2 projects | /r/LinuxArtists | 29 Apr 2023
    LMMS
  • Looking for projects to contribute to
    16 projects | /r/cpp | 25 Apr 2023
    LMMS can always use some volunteer time. 🙂 https://github.com/lmms/lmms
  • Looking for some editing software
    2 projects | /r/software | 17 Apr 2023
    Take a look at: Shotcut for video. Paint.NET for image editing. LMMS for your soundtrack. All free.
  • How can i set up a DAW and use a piano Vst on linux?
    2 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 16 Apr 2023
    Consider giving LMMS a try! It has support for VSTs and soundfonts and you can connect your MIDI keyboard
  • FreeBSD Home Audio Studio
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2023
    I am not really qualified to access it's quality, but there is also lmms, which looks like it works well enough.

    https://lmms.io/

    Not really qualified because I am not a musician and I was only using lmms to play around with a midi dials and buttons box, openbsd's sndio. and to see if I could get them to work togther. So in my case it was more of a systems integration exercise than making any music with it.

  • Good and reliable tool
    10 projects | /r/Piracy | 31 Jan 2023
    Bruh, use LMMS. https://lmms.io/

BespokeSynth

Posts with mentions or reviews of BespokeSynth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lmms and BespokeSynth you can also consider the following projects:

muse - MusE is a digital audio workstation with support for both Audio and MIDI

Rack - The virtual Eurorack studio

ardour - Mirror of Ardour Source Code

MuseScore - MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!

pipewire - Mirror of the PipeWire repository (see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/)

ebsynth - Fast Example-based Image Synthesis and Style Transfer

score - ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts

helm - Helm - a free polyphonic synth with lots of modulation

seq66 - Seq66: Seq24-based live MIDI looper/editor. v. 0.99.12 2024-01-13. NSM support; Linux/Windows/FreeBSD; PDF user manual. Help access to tutorial and PDF. Beta code in portfix branch.

Tenacity - Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems. Project currently on an indefinite hiatus.

VeeSeeVSTRack - Open-source virtual modular synthesizer