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What if Export is inferior to playback? Heres what I do.

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:44 pm
by vortexsupernova
[Moved from General chat to Tutorials]

Sometimes when you play a song in your LMMS, it sounds good. But when you click the export, and you play it in your media player of choice, it doesnt sound the same as what you are hearing when you are playing the song through song-editor. There are distortions and there was that loud ass clipping from a malfunctioning plug-in that does not show up when playing in LMMS itself. But only on export.

My last resort is using Audacity. It is free and open source software so you have no problem in getting a pirated version.

So, you don't need to open or download external plug-ins unless you don't have this audio driver called Windows WASAPI, which is used for loopback recording.
  • First, we open the program of course.
  • Then in the customizable/movable GUI commands above the screen, locate for the Audio Host (microphone icon), Recording device, Recording Channels, and output device (speaker icon)
  • The default in Audio Host is Windows DirectSound for some reason, the recording device default is [driver name], can be something like Realtek] then the default output is Speakers ([Driver name], e.g. "Realtek (R) Audio")
Change the following:

1. Prepare the Sample Rate (located near the status bar below.) before recording. Change the default 44.1Khz to something else you usually set on your LMMS export settings (make sure the sample rate is currently supported by your driver)

2. Change Windows DirectSound :arrow: Windows WASAPI

3. Change Microphone [driver name] :arrow: Speakers [driver name] (loopback) Take note that you must find other drivers the one with "loopback".

4. Done. Click the record icon. You must first click record in Audacity before hitting play in LMMS song editor.

I am not sure about the other combinations. I did a few research that WASAPI has high quality recording. If you think some info has to be added or corrected, comment down below. tyia.

Re: Export doesn't sound same as playthrough? Heres what I do...

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:06 am
by brandystarbrite
Oy! Nice info.

Re: Export doesn't sound same as playthrough? Heres what I do...

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:04 am
by vortexsupernova
brandystarbrite wrote:
Fri Oct 02, 2020 4:06 am
Oy! Nice info.
I'm glad you found it useful :)

Re: Export doesn't sound same as playthrough? Heres what I do...

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 3:45 pm
by musikbear
vortexsupernova wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:04 am
I'm glad you found it useful :)
I used to use Audacity, way back when LMMS had export-issues, so this may be useful still- I moved your topic to Tutorials👍

Re: Export doesn't sound same as playthrough? Heres what I do...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:04 pm
by vortexsupernova
musikbear wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 3:45 pm
vortexsupernova wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:04 am
I'm glad you found it useful :)
I used to use Audacity, way back when LMMS had export-issues, so this may be useful still- I moved your topic to Tutorials👍
Thanks for fixing and approving, it was glitched out when it was not approved yet

Re: What if Export is inferior to playback? Heres what I do.

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:40 am
by woelerinLin
Great post! I just love it

Re: What if Export is inferior to playback? Heres what I do.

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:09 am
by cloud4xL
This could be useful. Thanks for sharing!