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Hi
I’m planning to buy a midi keyboard called arturia minilab mkii, I’ve checked the midi keyboard list and can’t find the keyboard.
Does it work on LMMS? If not, what’s a great substitution? I wanted the Analog lab and the grand piano plugin from the minilab mkii.

Alex20061101 wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:04 am

Hi

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I’m planning to buy a midi keyboard

Hope someone chimes in, but the best i can offer you is a list of ok'ed kb's -Yours not tested yet
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Us ... _keyboards

Alex20061101 wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:04 am

Hi
I’m planning to buy a midi keyboard called arturia minilab mkii, I’ve checked the midi keyboard list and can’t find the keyboard.
Does it work on LMMS? If not, what’s a great substitution? I wanted the Analog lab and the grand piano plugin from the minilab mkii.

I'm a bit late to the party here, but most VST's that extract to a .dll file do work in LMMS. I've come across a couple that don't and one that works on my laptop but not on my desktop, but for the most part I've been successful. Some require that you also copy a folder or two into your LMMS vst folder alongside the .dll, but I've encountered very few so far that haven't run, even when installing Windoze VST versions on Linux.
I haven't played around with anything from Arturia yet, I'm feeling the financial pinch going into the holidays, but I was able to install and run Soundspot Union without issues once another member here showed me how to trick LMMS into searching the WINE folder. Awesome wavetable synth that's currently running only 8 and some change American right now, btw.
Do they have a trial version you could try?

Mr. Lumbergh wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:46 am

I'm a bit late to the party here, but most VST's that extract to a .dll file do work in LMMS.

He is referring to a HW midi-KB :

Not a vst
If anyone has this HW kb, and know if it works with lmms or not please chime in

musikbear wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 11, 2019 3:33 pm

Mr. Lumbergh wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 7:46 am

I'm a bit late to the party here, but most VST's that extract to a .dll file do work in LMMS.

He is referring to a HW midi-KB :
Not a vst
If anyone has this HW kb, and know if it works with lmms or not please chime in

Ah OK, my bad. I read it too fast and thought he was talking about a plugin.

Alex20061101 wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:04 am

Hi
I’m planning to buy a midi keyboard called arturia minilab mkii, I’ve checked the midi keyboard list and can’t find the keyboard.
Does it work on LMMS? If not, what’s a great substitution? I wanted the Analog lab and the grand piano plugin from the minilab mkii.

My Minilab II works fine with LMMS on Linux.

notjon wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:25 pm

My Minilab II works fine with LMMS on Linux.

Have you tried all the features, like the keys, dials, sliders and pads?

Edit: Just saw your post on another thread. So keys and dials all good, sliders and pads not yet confirmed?

by sliders you mean the pitch & vibrato strips? Those work too.

Pads issue is not that they don't work but I've found the default bank repeats the keys mapping, though switching to bank 1 does enabling mapping to a different instrument or whatever.

Bear in mind that I am about 1 month into playing around with LMMS and I've had the Minilab about 2 days.

Some perceived problems will probably be a function of my ignorance of both LMMS and midi tech generally.

I haven't tested it with the latest version (1.2.1) of LMMS.

I think if you want assured functionality "out of the box" with LMMS you'll have to stick to one of the known working controllers like a Korg or Akai, but I personally couldn't resist the Arturia aesthetically

hth

Thanks notjon, that's helpful.

With the drum pads, I saw that seems to be a common question, and not just with Arturia, maybe with some workarounds.

In case you haven't see these:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lmms/comments/ ... different/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lmms/comments/ ... ontroller/

viewtopic.php?t=4760

viewtopic.php?t=6143

So if you ever do solve it, please post about it in the forum.

mic704b wrote: So if you ever do solve it, please post about it in the forum.

Alex20061101 wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:04 am

Hi I’m planning to buy a midi keyboard called arturia minilab mkii,

Would you believe it ..
First example of how useful the list of working HW is :p
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4& ... 1a5#p66147

OBS it is on linux!
Lets give

contradev wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:12 pm

<3

He has solved this!