In this lmms tutorial i'm going to look at how to use MIDI keyboards on instrument tracks in lmms
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lmms is a decent free daw but setting up your MIDI keyboard can be a little tricky at first if
It doesn't get recognized by lmms right away
So this lmms tutorial is going to show you how to set up your midi keyboard and how to use it on
instrument tracks in lmms
I went over this a bit in my lmms review video and if you want to check out some more of
Lmms features. You should really check out that video a link to it in the description below
There should also be a card up on the screen right now that you could click on and check that out if you like
But right now let's jump into this Lmms tutorial
before you start lmms
Be sure to plug in your MIDI keyboard and once it's plugged in and installed open up
Lmms then go up to edit
Settings
and you want to click on the MIDI keyboard looking image here and
Then in the MIDI interface drop down menu
you would want to click on your MIDI keyboard if it shows up here and if it does click on OK and
You're done
You can now go over and add your MIDI keyboard to the track there
if Your keyboard did not show up there. You can't add it as a MIDI input on your instrument track
You'll need to download the free midi mapper from coolsoft
I've put a link to it in the description below and it's absolutely free. I didn't even need to sign up for anything
I just downloaded it
Once its installed you may be prompted to restart your computer
Do that if it asks you to and then when you come back to Windows open up lmms now you can go up to edit
settings
click on MIDI keyboard icon
And you want to choose
Win Mm MIDI here and it may tell you that you need to restart Lmms
So we'll do that now and now if we go to our instrument track and click on the gear icon here
We'll see in MIDI input we have my key station mini 32 listed there. So
Now let's test that out. See if I can use it
There we go it now works
And if I wanted to use this on
Another track say I'd want to use it with this one
And then I stopped using this one and I want to use it on a separate instrument. So I'll add another instrument here
So I have my other instrument loaded up I'm clicked on it and
now if I play my MIDI keyboard
It still controls that other instrument. So what I need to do is go to the gear icon here
click on MIDI input and then select my key station mini 32 and now when I play it
It's actually controlling both instruments
So I'll need to go back to this instrument here. Go to MIDI
input and click on my MIDI keyboard again to remove it and
Now when I play it
I'm only controlling the one instrument so you can control multiple instruments in
lmms with a single MIDI keyboard at one time
Which is pretty cool you may want to do that at some point
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