 Today we're looking at using LMS and linking MIDI inputs and outputs to other LMS instruments and tracks. If you enjoy my tutorials and would like to see more, please think about contributing to my Patreon account at patreon.com forward slash metalx1000. I have done, it's been a while since I've done any type of music tutorial and I want to apologize first off, since it's been so long I don't have my system set up to record the output of the instruments. So when you hear music coming out of LMS, it's going to be recorded through my microphone. It's just how I have it set up at this time and I just wanted to get this video recorded. So I apologize for that and in the past I have done tutorials on linking inputs and outputs of MIDI devices in LMS and it's really simple. But I recently had a viewer ask me a question and the answer is very simple but I thought I'd do a tutorial on it. First off, let's say I want to link, well, let's do this. We have a default instrument here, I'm actually going to drag a ZYN, add some effect to it. Hopefully you can hear that. Let's turn the, let's change the instrument because the default instrument in LMS is rather low. I'll just make it a home piano. Okay. Now I have a physical keyboard here next to me, a MIDI keyboard. So I can click here if I'm doing an instrument or here if I'm doing a track and I'm going to go to MIDI input and I'm going to choose my USB MIDI keyboard device that should show up there under the device name. Now if I press the keys on my physical keyboard, great. We have instrument being played. Of course I can always right click and go to the piano roll, record stuff. I'm going to lie down, I'm going to lay down some music here, just making up stuff. Okay. Great. Now, let's say you have all these instrument plugins, these different synthesizers and other instruments that you can bring over into LMS and use that MIDI track for. But let's say you like a synthesizer that isn't built in, such as AM synth, which is a synthesizer I like. How do you link LMS to AM synth to get this instrument to play? Well, the simplest way is just to click on this track here, go MIDI output and AM synth should show up as an input. Now if I was to press play now, it's going to play both the ZYN add sub effect that's built into LMS here and the external AM synth. Okay. So let's say we don't want to have the internal anymore. My simplest solution would be to come over here to the SF2, which is a sound font player, drag that to replace this instrument and don't load any sound font file. There we go. So we have that playing out to the AM synth and LMS itself is not playing any type of audio. So that's simple enough. But the next question I had from a viewer was how do I, how do you link multiple instruments within LMS to one MIDI track? So I have this MIDI track here and I want to have four different instruments playing that track. So let me come back here, I'll pull over a ZYN add sub effect and I'll pull in a bit invader and maybe a free boy instrument. Now when they asked this question, something I'd never thought about before because what I would normally do is right click, copy and then paste in the instrument on each one of these. The problem with that is, well now if I want to make a change to this MIDI track, so I come in here and I want to put this up here, it's only changing on the one track, not the others. So how do I do it so where I can modify one MIDI track, whether it's inside the loop editor or the track editor here, the song editor, so that when I make the change it affects all those tracks. Well, first thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to clear all notes on those two instruments. So I have here my MIDI out, which I'm going to turn off AM synth, although I could leave it on if I wanted it to. And so I have an output here and I can go through these and I don't have too many options here, but you notice we do have one called LMS default preset. Now you may not see that by default at first. What we would want to do first would be come to the instruments we want as an input, and I would go to MIDI and I would say it's input to be the MIDI through, MIDI through port zero, and I would do the same for this one, the input MIDI through port zero. Now when we go here and I go to output, you notice we have three presets. The first one showed up because I had already linked to my MIDI keyboard. If I didn't set that up, you wouldn't have seen any of them by default. Once an input is set to an LMS instrument, it will show up in the outputs. Let me clear out the project and show you that because I don't think I explained it very well. Right now, we have one instrument, two instruments, three instruments. I go here, MIDI, inputs, and outputs. So I go to outputs. I don't see any LMS instruments because I haven't linked any LMS inputs to anything. Before the one showed up because I had already linked it to my keyboard. But I want to show you by default, you're not going to see any because that could be confusing coming here like, oh, I want to link this track to this track, but I'm not seeing that track. What you need to do first is come to the tracks down here and say, create an input and link it to something. In this case, I'm going to use the MIDI through port, which I believe is just part of the ALSA, which is the advanced Linux sound system. I don't know what the last A stands for. Anyway, but all it does is pass MIDI input through it to other programs. So it allows you to link stuff up through it. It itself doesn't play anything or record anything. So I'm going to choose that. And now when I go back here and I go to output, you can see that it showed up as preset zero. And I can do the same for this instrument. I can say I want its input to be the through port. And now when I come up here to this instrument and I go output, there's two of them. So I can link this here. And so I can check multiple and I can go to the piano roll. And as I'm writing down the notes, you can see on the indicator here for all three instruments are being activated. Now, one instrument is louder than the other just because the bit invader is a louder instrument. So I can lower it down if I wanted to. But all three instruments are playing off this MIDI track. And so if I make a change to the one track, it's affecting all three tracks. So that is how you link instruments within LMS to other tracks and instruments on LMS. And that's it for the story. It was very simple. And I hope you enjoyed it. Again, I apologize that I don't have the output of the software going right into my recorder. I just don't do very many audio tutorials anymore because it's paying the butt to link and get the audio all right. 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