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I'm fairly new to LMMS and have had great fun with it for the past week, however I'd like to import samples that I have recorded on Audacity into the software. Every time i have done this the sound on the sample just doesn't work but it works everywhere else. I have tried using a WAV file and an OGG file but nothing that I try seems to work. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Are you using the audio file processor ?

Did you put a note in the piano roll ( length of sample ) ?

gtkk wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:28 pm

thanks.

In Audacity, did you export as follows:
- WAV (Microsoft) signed 16-bit PCM
- Ogg Vorbis (quality = 10)

Then, if you are on windows, I think that the ideal is to place your samples in a personal folder in C:\Users\lmms\samples

Then you have two ways to open your samples:
- via AudioFileProcessor. When you bring up the interface of this plugin, there is an icon representing a folder (in the middle right of the interface). It is via this icon that you can load your samples. Once the sample is loaded, press the Y key on your keyboard and you must hear your sample.
- via SampleTrack. You must place a "block" in the SongEditor sequencer, double click on this block to reveal an interface allowing you to load a sample.

Is this familiar to you?
And does it work?

gtkk wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:28 pm

I'm fairly new to LMMS

Hi, Welcome to the Forum gtkk !
Here are all important links:
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4740
-A few rules and useful forum instructions

sample just doesn't work :: I have tried using a WAV file and an OGG file

Besides all the good help you already have, Lets test if lmms works
* Shut down all open programs
* shut down !Not sleep!! -your pc, wait 2 mins and reboot
* open lmms default -eg load no projects!
* open This project: "projects\demos\Greippi - Krem Kaakkuja (Second
Flight Remix).mmpz" (thats a test-projects for various reasons)

Press play.
What happens? Does it make sound?

If you have sound, then open the very first track in the project : Kick01.ogg
That track is now Active

Look at its representation of the waveform!

Thats how an active soundfile must look!
Now in the side-bar,


open My Samples
* Browse down to any of those you have made in Audacity -obs, that you have a token-search-field!
* Rest mouse over Your found sample's name, and press left-mouse
Did it make sound?

* right-click your sample and choose "Send-to-active-instrument-track"
Your sample is now substituted with Kick01.ogg

Do you see a representation of the waveform again?
With mouse Press the A4 key- (that is default key for sample-pitch) on the preset-keyboard, the one from the previous picture.
Did you get a sound?

Finally, if everything went fine, up to now -play the project, and listing for your own sample to ..kick in at Bar 7
You could solo

the track, in song-editor, and then only your sample would be audible
Lets know how all went.

Perhaps my LMMS rookie-guide can interest you? Link in signature.