Hi all! I'm struggling a bit because I got a preowned Akai MPK49. It's fun to play melodies and record them, yet I'm not sure how to get the most out of all the dials, knobs and drum pads.
I tried Ableton (free version) and I was ready to flip out a bit because there doesn't seem to be a way to get all the MIDI notes to the same velocity. Adjusting all of them at once keeps them at different velocities, whereas in LMMS it makes them all the same which I absolutely love because the keybed has terrible velocity sensitivity. If I wanted to increase the volume of an entire track I'd just adjust the instrument volume, yet Ableton for some reason does things a silly way in that regard.
One thing I do like about Ableton however is the 'arm button', which I can map to the buttons that light up below the faders and map the volume of each instrument to the faders. It's a lot of fun using the pitch bend and modulation wheels in conjunction with this I find.
After playing around with Ableton I can see that there are some positive aspects such as better stock plugins yet I cannot stand how complicated it seems. I prefer LMMS because everything appears more hands-on and manual, although (with experience) it may have some cons in comparison. Being that I'm learning as I go this is somewhat a challenge.
Anyway, without getting too much on a tangent, I just want to ask how you might utilize the many features of a MIDI controller in LMMS. Thanks for reading!
I tried Ableton (free version) and I was ready to flip out a bit because there doesn't seem to be a way to get all the MIDI notes to the same velocity. Adjusting all of them at once keeps them at different velocities, whereas in LMMS it makes them all the same which I absolutely love because the keybed has terrible velocity sensitivity. If I wanted to increase the volume of an entire track I'd just adjust the instrument volume, yet Ableton for some reason does things a silly way in that regard.
One thing I do like about Ableton however is the 'arm button', which I can map to the buttons that light up below the faders and map the volume of each instrument to the faders. It's a lot of fun using the pitch bend and modulation wheels in conjunction with this I find.
After playing around with Ableton I can see that there are some positive aspects such as better stock plugins yet I cannot stand how complicated it seems. I prefer LMMS because everything appears more hands-on and manual, although (with experience) it may have some cons in comparison. Being that I'm learning as I go this is somewhat a challenge.
Anyway, without getting too much on a tangent, I just want to ask how you might utilize the many features of a MIDI controller in LMMS. Thanks for reading!