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I'm fairly new to using LMMS and this forum, so sorry if this isn't where this should go. I haven't been able to find any information anywhere online about using triplets in the beat editor, except some old release notes that mention that triplets are supported as of 0.4.0. It appears that, in all time signatures, the beat editor still divides individual beats into increments of 4. Are triplets still supported on the current version of LMMS, and if so, how do I use them? If it matters, I am running 1.1.3 on Windows 8.1.

Thanks!

TortMojaves wrote:I'm fairly new to using LMMS and this forum, so sorry if this isn't where this should go. I haven't been able to find any information anywhere online about using triplets in the beat editor, except some old release notes that mention that triplets are supported as of 0.4.0. It appears that, in all time signatures, the beat editor still divides individual beats into increments of 4. Are triplets still supported on the current version of LMMS, and if so, how do I use them? If it matters, I am running 1.1.3 on Windows 8.1.

Thanks!

Hm, I think you can, you would have to double click the the little blue thing that
Lights up when you use the beat and bassline editor and manually place triplets in the piano roll.

TortMojaves wrote:I'm fairly new to using LMMS

And i can see that you are new in our forum, so-
Welcome to the forum TortMojaves! Here, For you, all important links:
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4740
And a few rules for Avatars, signatures, posting and using the right sub-forum :)

Triplets (most common 3 * 1/16) are supported as 'constructed notes'.
Lmms has a neat feature that will reuse the last used or click-played note.
It is also the default setting in the note-selector


To use 3*16. triplets do this:
In the note-selector :
* set the Default Note Length to 1/16 (ensures you have the right std-length
* drag this note to the length of 3/16
the quantisation is controlled with Q, so set that to 16 too.

* set the Default Note Length to Last-note
* left-click on the constructed triplet
Now lmms will have 'recorded' the triplet, and will use that length ad default note, until you left-click a note with a different length, then that is the default
In this way you can work with any constructed-length, not only triplets

All this are also explained in
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Piano_Roll_Editor

That's not what I understand as a triplet. A triplet is e.g. 3 notes played in the time of a 1/4 note or an 1/8 note so it's actually a 1/12th note or a 1/24th note. And they're not supported in the basic Beat/Bass Editor entry, you have go into Piano Roll.

To enter them in Piano Roll you can set Quantize to one of the "divide by 3" values like 1/12 or 1/24. Then you can enter 3 notes per beat by selecting 1/12s or 1/24ths etc. NOTE: you can actually select the appropriate note lengths without setting Quantize first, that just makes it easier to see what you're doing.

Steve

slipstick wrote:To enter them in Piano Roll you can set Quantize to one of the "divide by 3" values like 1/12 or 1/24. Then you can enter 3 notes per beat by selecting 1/12s or 1/24ths etc. NOTE: you can actually select the appropriate note lengths without setting Quantize first, that just makes it easier to see what you're doing.

Excellent, I think that is specifically what I needed. For some reason, when I was playing around with it last night, samples weren't playing correctly when using notes in the piano roll, so I thought that I would need to find a way to do it in specifically the beat editor, but trying what you said just now works fine. Thanks much, and thanks to everyone who responded!

slipstick wrote:That's not what I understand as a triplet

You know much more about staff and notes, so i will take notice -Thanks for clarifying, and correcting my mistake!