LMMS Tutorial 9: VST / VSTi Usage Video Lecture | LMMS Tutorial: Expertise Audio Editing (English) - Video & Sound Editing

hey guys is cue Bishan and this is a
short tutorial showing you how to use
and import VST plugins into lmms and use
them in this tutorial I'm going to cover
two different types of vsts VST effects
and VST plugins so a VST plug-in is
external software written to be an
effect on your instrument
so if you add effect it's going to pulp
your effects thing and down the bottom
it'll actually have your VST plugins' so
you can add them through that except for
if you don't have any VST plugins in
your plug-in folder then of course
nothing's going to show up so how do you
get your VST plugins folder go to
settings this VST plug-in directory
right here you can set it using that
button so you can change it anytime this
is my folder the I made especially for
my VST plugins so I'm just going to go
to my VST plugins folder so I have my
VST plugins all right here these are
already ones I've installed um so we can
close that but you have to put your
effects in here before they will show up
so G snap and cattle crusher are the
only two effects I have the two VST
plugins so since I've already put them
in this folder and since LMS is looking
for them in this folder it will find
them so usually if you import a VST into
that folder you have to restart Alamo
mess before it will recognize it um
but those have been in there before I
started up this lmms so they will show
up at the very bottom right there VST
and then it has the name of the VST
plugin so here's a nice VST plug-in
called camel crusher it's a nice
distortion
compression plug-in makes it sound nice
so it does have an effect so that is how
you import a VST plugin is you just
stick it in there in that folder um
everybody's will be different you'll
have to set your own probably but then
you just look in the effects so how to
import a VST I or VST instrument you'll
need a vestige this is just like any
other plug-in you can put down your
notes so ever it doesn't make any noise
because it's just a VST I host so in
order for this to actually work you have
to select a VST now this it opens up a
file dialog so you can pretty much um uh
have your VST wherever and it'll still
work however the default folder that
opens up to is your VST plugins folder
so for speed and convenience you should
put your VST instruments in here
so here's a nice VST I called trance
drive that I honestly haven't used a lot
I don't really use external vsts a whole
ton but oh that's quite big um nice so
now it's got a VST loaded can just hit
play
and okay I don't know what that is but
anyway fun fun fun
so it's really simple you just do that
however when minimizing this gigantic
window of course VST instruments aren't
always this huge when trying to close up
this window
don't use that close button that will
just create a memory leak now for people
who don't know what that is it
essentially just means it just hides the
window from your view and you can never
control it again but it's still in the
background and it doesn't actually close
it so this right here show/hide GUI
that's what you want to use to show or
hide it because if you use the X button
it'll just slow your computer down the
more you use that so
so with a VST instrument now you can oh
man that's a bit that's what I get for
having a old computer I guess I in fact
actually on my desktop I have a VST I
this one I actually am developing of
course it's in the early stages and it's
not really anything special but I mean
you use it and so brilliancy a so use
that also for automation in version 1.0
and up you can actually automate these
knobs um through this of course there's
only like four knobs because I fail at
producing this so it doesn't recognize
all these other knobs is actually being
knobs so maybe this isn't the best
example go back to my VST plugins folder
just go back to trance Drive so yeah in
previous versions of lmms you couldn't
automate any of the knobs in a VST
plugin
however version 1.0 and up you can't
just right click and say automate but
you do have this you can click on it and
it opens up this giant massive oh it's
all of these knobs basically just
without a GUI and so it's kind of
confusing to look at and it isn't as
easy as I wanna I want to automate the
amount you can't right click on you do
have to find LFO 1 and anyway so it is
kind of difficult to use however you can
automate stuff
see there we go there's a knob that
actually does something
so that is nice to be able to automate
those can actually do the same thing
with effects oh that's not an effect
that's gonna cause some problems what
the freaking is still loaded it's still
loaded the instrument is an effect that
is weird
not what I'm trying to get at though so
effects oh my oh my it crashed cancel oh
great well I guess that kind of ends
this tutorial short but anyway at least
you know how to import vsts and VST eyes
into lmms right thanks guys it was
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friends who also use LMS I will be
posting more tutorials in the future so
be keeping an eye out for those right
thanks guys