Thanks, that's clever. I must have a good play with it.

The more I get into LMMS the more impressed I am with it (and with the kind people on this forum that help us newbies ;)).

Steve
I'm trying to work out if time signature in LMMS has to be global for a complete song i.e. if you start in 4/4 it stays in 4/4 for ever and all sections have to be in complete bars. One thing I'm working with has quite frequent time signature changes (4/4, 5/4, even occasionally 7/8) and the only wa...
It's interesting that we all start from different places. I played with a few early synths back in the 70s. I even built myself a couple. So I have no real problem with all the knobs. But drums/beats and looping are foreign to me and far harder than I thought. And one day I'm sure I'll work out what...
I have enough free synth VSTs to keep me going for a while thanks. Synth1 is good and I have a great EMS VC3, a pretty good ARP2600 and a few others. And the built-in ZynAddSubFX is not at all bad, though a bit complicated. Plus if I want some "real" analog sounds I can always sample my ol...
Of course if you have a midi file there's nothing stopping you from importing it into LMMS, going into the resulting piano roll and deleting the notes that aren't in the voice you're looking at currently. Then you can change the instrument in the Song Editor to whatever synth/VST etc. you want to us...
You've picked a seriously tricky bit of music to use to learn score reading. But to attempt to clear up your problem with the arcs....first of all the things you're looking at are ties (not slurs or phrase marks which have a completely different purpose). Ties connect a number of written notes of th...