It might work better if you read 3/4 as 3 beats of quarter notes. Though that can still be confusing (what is it a quarter of ?). But it's important that you don't confuse beats with actual notes played. Beats are what you count to keep in time. But notes can be many different lengths so there can b...
I bet even Ugg in the caveman days just picked up a "preset" rock and banged it. By some people's standards even that counts as cheating. He should have made his own rock ;).

Steve
However good a sound you get from a synth it ain't music until you've done a lot more with it than just think "Ooh that's a nice noise". As a minimum you'll have to arrange a few notes in an order that sounds good. Of course you could get a simple random program to produce note sequences t...
As you say there's merit to both views. if you feel that designing all the sounds is vital to making your music and that using any pre-existing sound is cheating then go for it. I think composing the notes, finding or making a suitable set of sounds and getting the arrangement right is enough of a c...
Thank you Steve, that worked. I still can't understand why Audiofile Processor moves the key of a sample like "Piano_C3", but it worked. Glad that worked. The thing is the sample is just one note, in this case a C. LMMS has to recalculate a new note every time you press a different key. S...
I don't know about the default input. But if you're using a sample as an instrument via Audio File Processor I think LMMS assumes that your sample note is recorded as an A. This is shown by the green square over the note on the keyboard at the bottom of the AFP box. If the sample is a C you need tel...
I borrowed a Yamaha dx7 from that club, and hooked it up to the Atari ST I had. :P The Atari ST run Cubase. I was soon very disappointed though, that Yamaha keyboard was not polyphonic. :( The Yamaha DX7 was polyphonic, even my DX21 little brother to it had 16 note polyphony and split keyboard. It ...
I'm not sure what I'm hearing much of the time but overall it sounds pretty good. I'd like a little more bass in the mix (I used to be a bass player ;)) and I would probably have edited it down to around 3 minutes. It's a bit long for a commercial song and I can't hear anything very new happening af...
You may already know this but if you find a midi file that sounds good to you you can always load it into Anvil Studio or MuseScore (both free) and they will show it as "sheet music" i.e. notes on staves. If you want to print a copy of it MuseScore is the one to go for. That way you have s...
Obviously your ear is pretty good. Now you just need to believe what you read on the sheet music. But I still think you're doing better than me because I have a terrible ear for music so I have to rely on theory and sheet music :(. And just to wind you up a bit more....that note or notes hanging aro...