Time for action—opening a new song template

Let's open a new song template. If you are using Windows or Linux, the application will show in the Program Menu. If you are using the Mac version, double-click on the LMMS application to open it and then do the following:

1. Go to the LMMS Project menu and choose New.
2. Go to the Project menu and choose Save As.
3. Choose a name for this project and save.

What just happened?

So we have a song template open now and it looks similar to the following screenshot:

Remember how I said that most DAWs will usually open two main windows? Well, as we can see here, LMMS actually starts us with a bit more than that. To make it easier for us to get around, let's have a look at this song template and get familiar with its layout.

The Main Menu bar

The Main Menu bar is where we can choose to Open, Save, and adjust the preferences of our project. We can also use the Tools menu to undo and redo actions that we've performed in any editor within LMMS:

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