It's sort of interesting that an idea seems to have grown up that a piece of music should be produced from nothing to finished published recording entirely by one person with no outside help. It's never been that way in the history of music. I don't think Bach would have been thought to be cheating ...

Fun isn't it ? I confess I'm cheating. Most of the time I only use the 12 notes from A to G#. I haven't invented my own notes. And in painting I'm sure using models is o.k. but you should have made your own paper and ground the pigments for your own paints and shaved the squirrel to make your brushe...

Thanks but I've been using Anvil Studio (also free) to input notation and then export as midi or to modify existing midi files. MuseScore is better looking and prints nice scores but I find Anvil Studio slightly easier to use for input/editing.

Steve

Thanks for that Gps. I was wondering what that scale box did. BTW did you also notice that if you set the chord box to say major and then add a new note it actually adds the three notes of that major chord. So add a C and what you get is C, E and G. Add a D and it sets you D, F#, A (and then you not...

I set scale to mayor, then chord to major. Then draw the first chord. Then I use the mark scale tool, and copy a chord, which of course makes one of the three notes go of scale. I then just correct that one note. :P That sounds interesting but I don't understand much of it, mainly because I've neve...

I think it depends on who/what you think you are. I see sound design as one skill, music composition as another, production as another etc. I'm confident that I will never be good at all the possible skills associated with starting from nothing and arriving a complete finished original "song&qu...

If you look at some of the simpler sheet music you have, like that "I feel love" you posted in your General Music thread, you'll see plenty of chords. When several notes are printed on top of one another you play them at the same time and that's a chord. And above the staves you'll see thi...

Thanks. I was hoping to avoid having to learn about automation until I had the basics sorted out. But it seems to get involved all over the place, probably due to how I'm using LMMS so I guess I'll just have to get my mind round that as well. I don't suppose there's any chance that LMMS is going to ...

That does it, thanks a lot I'm going to have to learn more about automation cus it has already bitten me in several different ways. I've just realised that'show you can mange changing time signatures as well.

Steve

Sorry, me again and it's probably just something I've missed but when I import a midi file I can edit the notes pitch, length, velocities etc. I can change the instrument that plays it, either by dropping a different instrument onto the track or even by creating a new instrument track then copying t...