Hardware Controller LMMS for piano roll melody recording

[dieterdecaluwe]

Hey everybody,

Newbie here

When creating a melody in a piano roll of a VST I find my mousepad and keys very limited. Creating a melody by activating the green notes this way is not 'flowy'.

I know I can 'compose' something on the keyboard but that is also pretty unnatural.

I have seen movies about piano-like controllers that you can play on and hear the sound of the VST with applied effects 'real time'. This is way better for creating melodies!

I do have a yamaha psr-e303. Can I use that to play through lmmsand its VST's? I also have a tascam 122L. My OS is win 7 32bit.

And could I then record what I am playing through that VST in the piano roll? A little like recording guitar in Cubase but then through the vst's of LMMS? So that it will note down what I play as green notes in the piano roll? Or is that not a function of LMMS?

I hope my questions are clear, and thanks in advance!

Grtz

[guy07]

I'm not really sure ... always used keyboard or grid to make tunes. You can always hook it up and give it a shot. If that doesn't work, you can try recording it in Audacity (a free audio editing program) then load the track into LMMS. You can go to Edit>Settings>MIDI settings and seeing if you can get your board to connect.

[musikbear]

And could I then record what I am playing through that VST in the piano roll? A little like recording guitar in Cubase but then through the vst's of LMMS? So that it will note down what I play as green notes in the piano roll? Or is that not a function of LMMS?

you can 'record' (create note-events) both flat and layered in lmms
the red/white record-button allow you to record independent of anything you have in your songeditor, eg a flat record
The red/white/black recordbutton gives you the great posibillity to record along with everything you alre4afy have in your BB & songeditor -eg layered.
I have a video on yT that shows how to do this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFy8tipBbB8

on this board you can find threads for eksternal hw that works with lmms, but give your own stuf a go and tell us if it worked :) -and
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/index. ... Using_MIDI
shows how to connect midi divises

Br.

[dieterdecaluwe]

Huzzay!

I got the keyboard to work on lmms. I can insert an instrument in the song editor and when I strike the keys of the board I hear the instrument through my speakers.

Psr e-303 -> midi out -> cable -> midi in tascam -> tascam usb to pc -> select tascam as input in lmms. Tascam also goes through my stereo via cinch (red/white tulip) and thus speakers. Some lag, but not extreme.

If I can now figure out how to record what I play on the keyboard through the instruments and vst's in their piano roll then i'm one happy camper.

By the way, in both firefox and opera i cannot reply on this forum, so i have to use IE... sucks!