Xylophone sound

[cuppajoeman]

Hi there, I've just installed LMMS and was looking to make a melody with a xylophone sound.

I had downloaded xylophone samples and inside it contained a sample of each note. Once I got back into LMMS I realized I had no idea what to do with this because usually I would use the piano roll to create a melody, but I wasn't sure now since I had samples of individual notes.

I stumbled upon https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Wo ... nstruments but it only speaks about using a single sample to create an instrument, where I have many samples...

If anyone has suggestions please let me know. Thanks!

[musikbear]

Hi there, I've just installed LMMS

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I was looking to make a melody with a xylophone sound.
I had downloaded xylophone samples and inside it contained a sample of each note. Once I got back into LMMS I realized I had no idea what to do with this because usually I would use the piano roll to create a melody, but I wasn't sure now since I had samples of individual notes.

That is correct!
In that situation, you should use a Sampler
Samplers let you insert a note on selected keys, and then it will play the inserted sound, when the note is activated in piano-roll.
But sadly, LMMS does not have a native Sampler.
You need to use a VST, and it has been hard finding a reliable Sampler, at least for Windows, because Linux has one named Linux-sampler.
But an alternative could be to use Mallets.
That is a native instrument in LMMS, and it has a native xylophone preset
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Mallets
Could you use that?

( You are one of the few that has 'stumpled' over my tutorials btw. I have very low play-count

[cuppajoeman]

Hello musikbear, thank you for the introduction to the forum, I'm so glad that lmms has it's own irc channel! Hopefully I will meet some nice people there!

I tried out the "mallets" and they are very good, and so this solved my problem. I'll keep the sampling in mind though when the time comes.

I also appreciate you making the tutorials, the documentation is very nice!