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Greetings,

is it possible to set varying volume for individual notes in piano roll (e.g. 20% at the start and 50% at the end)? Automation track seems not doing the trick in cases when two simultaneous (overlapping) notes must have different volume changing pattern.

Yep, and it's very easy. Go into the piano roll editor in your pattern, and look at the bottom— you should see a bunch of vertical green lines wherever a note starts. You can click and drag your mouse to edit several notes quickly but imprecisely, or you can double click each line to type in a percent value. When you want to make different notes in a chord have different volumes, it's a little more work but still pretty simple. You just have to drag the note you want to edit out of the chord temporarily so you can edit the volume individually, then drag it back into the chord (I'm talking about left-right dragging— this will make more sense when you actually try it).

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I see how to set the volume of individual notes by adjusting the height of the volume bar in the bottom of piano roll, but what I don't know how to do is how can one make the volume of one note changing while this note is playing. So that the note's volume increases or decreases during the note playback.

If I remember correctly, in earlier versions of LMMS this feature was present: each note could have a SECOND volume bar at the end (in the current version notes have only one volume bar at the start), and if two bars were of different height, the sound's volume was gradually was changing during the note playback.

nbd wrote:but what I don't know how to do is how can one make the volume of one note changing while this note is playing

I think :p- you are thinking of pitch?? That is done inside piano-roll, with the 'detune-tool'
http://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Piano_Roll_Editor (mid-page)

No instruments based on VSTs (all with blanc ENV/LFO page) architecture can use this feature.

Volume has its own envelope, but again No instruments based on VSTs (all with blanc ENV/LFO page) architecture can use this feature.

Did you think of pitch?

nbd wrote:Thanks for your reply. Yes, I see how to set the volume of individual notes by adjusting the height of the volume bar in the bottom of piano roll, but what I don't know how to do is how can one make the volume of one note changing while this note is playing. So that the note's volume increases or decreases during the note playback.

The only way I know how to do this is by either automating the volume or using the ADSR envelope built into the plugin.

Well, that's a bit strange: if the pitch can be shaped, shaping the volume seems can be implemented even more easily. But anyways, thanks for the answers. Will try using the automation track.