Bassline composed using piano roll plays without pitch

[outeast]

Hi all,

Sorry, totally new to LMMS and trying to figure it all out. Please excuse idiot noob question.

I wrote a chunk of beats using the piano roll, with lots of pitch changes to make a tune of sorts (just a bit of breakbeat while I learn to use the program). It was playing fine yesterday. Today I opened it up to carry on playing with it, and although it plays every beat it now plays without any of my pitch variations (ie it plays the beat, not the tune). If I open the piano reel I can see my original stuff is still there - but it still plays just with one constant pitch. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

It's no biggie to lose the track, but I want to know what I did wrong (or if it's a bug or something... I know thew windows port is a bit buggy). I tried looking for answers but it's defeating my google-fu.

I'm using the latest stable Win64 version, on Win10.

[musikbear]

Hi all,
Sorry, totally new to LMMS and trying to figure it all out.
.

Welcome to the forum outeast! First, For you: all important links:
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4740

Please excuse idiot noob question.

In here we do not think of anyone's questions as noobish, just questions :)


+The issue with your lost pitch melody is strange. How did you implement the pitch-changes?
Did you:
* Use automation-tracks
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Wo ... Automation

* used the pitch-bend option Detune in piano-roll:
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Or something different?

[slipstick]

And what instrument were you using to play it ? Triple Oscillator ? Or LB302 ? Or....?

If it was Kicker make sure you haven't clicked Start and End off....that will give you a single pitch for all piano roll notes. Some other instruments may also have ways of switching off pitch following.

Steve

[outeast]

If it was Kicker make sure you haven't clicked Start and End off....that will give you a single pitch for all piano roll notes. Steve

Yup, Kicker. Starting with the defaults, you know? And heh! I discovered (when I found them) that Start and End *were* off (swear it wasn't me guv!), and clicking them on again gives me my pitch changes back - but for some reason also gives me a tinkly piano or something! Hm. I guess the YouTube tutorial I watched was a bit *too* light on info Time to RTM....

Thank you for the tip, and Musikbear, thank you for the welcome! Much appreciated.

[slipstick]

Kicker (as the name suggests) isn't really intended as a pitched instrument. It's meant to use as a kick drum equivalent...and you can't get many different notes out of one of those. Try Triple Osc instead, it's much more tuneful.

Steve

[musikbear]

Try Triple Osc instead, it's much more tuneful.

Steve

like:
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Ma ... or_Patches
And perhaps one of mine :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hmJYW14JpU