Lemon wiki
Settings
The OPTIONS menu opens the Settings window on the page you choose. F10 opens MIDI and F11 opens Info. Once it’s open, the tabs along the top take you to any page. Controls drawn dim aren’t available yet.
Your MIDI devices, in an Output list and an Input list. Select a device to set it up.
- Enable turns an input on. Controller type and Port go with it.
- Link note on velocity to and Link release velocity to set what a key’s velocity changes.
- Soft takeover stops a knob from jumping when you first move it. Sustain pedal releases notes holds the keys you let go of until the pedal comes up. Turned off, the pedal goes to the instrument instead.
- Send master sync and Synchronization type send clock to another device, and External clock sync follows one.
See MIDI controllers.
Your audio devices and how they’re driven: Output device, Input device, Mode, Sample rate (Hz) and Buffer length. Auto close lets go of the output while another program is in front.
The CPU section has the multithreading switches and Auto-bypass when silent. The Mixer section sets the Browser preview track and Metronome track.
See Set up your audio.
Recording
Section titled “Recording”What Lemon Studio records and how. Most of these are the same settings you’ll find on the Record button’s menu.
- Recording filter: Notes, Automation, and Audio (armed mixer tracks).
- Options: Ask what to record, Loop record, Blend recorded notes, Recording starts playback and Disarm on stop.
- Quantize: whether Note start time and Note end time snap.
- Start on input and Count-in, with the count-in’s length.
- Audio recording: Auto-create audio clips, and where recordings go.
See Recording.
General
Section titled “General”The longest page, in folding sections.
- Display: Main GUI scaling, with separate scaling for pop-ups and toolbars, Animations, Thick lines and High visibility.
- Language: Note names, and whether black notes show as sharps or flats.
- Input: Manage shortcuts swaps the F8 keys, Right button clears steps changes the rack, and two sliders set scrolling speed.
- Undo history: Maximum undo levels, Undo knob tweaks and Alternate undo mode. See Undo and history.
- Hints and warnings: Manage messages brings back questions you turned off, and Project data size warning sets when a large save gets a mention.
- System: Associate project files with application works on Windows. Elsewhere, your system’s own “Open with” settings decide.
- Updates: Automatically check for updates and Automatically download program updates.
- Miscellaneous: Default template is what FILE ▸ New gives you, and Startup project is what Lemon Studio opens with.
- Advanced: Auto keep long audio on disk and Threaded project sample loading, among others.
Where things go.
- Backup: Autosave sets how often a changed project is backed up, Maximum how many copies to keep, and Location where they go. See Project files.
- User data folder shows where your settings, themes and presets live.
- Browser extra search folders lists the folders you’ve added to the browser, and lets you add, rename or replace them.
Plugins
Section titled “Plugins”The plugin manager. Manage plugins in the OPTIONS and ADD menus opens this page too.
- Search folders: where Lemon Studio looks. Add folder… adds your own.
- Scanning: Scan for new plugins at startup, Rescan plugins with errors, Combine formats of the same plugin and which format you prefer. Scan for new plugins and Rescan all run a scan now.
- Plugins: a table of everything found. Star your favourites, hide what you don’t use, and use Find to search. Hover over a row to see its path, or why it failed.
See Your plugins.
Colours: built-in themes, adjustments and your own themes. See Custom themes.
Project
Section titled “Project”Mostly settings saved with the current project.
- Data folder: the project’s own folder for backups, recordings, renders and copied samples, with Ask for data folder and Copy used samples to the project folder.
- Time settings: Timebase (PPQ), and the bar as a time signature or a time division.
- Advanced: Panning law and Play truncated notes in clips.
- Arranger: Automatic crossfades for this project, and Enable automatic crossfades in new projects.
The project’s credits: Title, Author, Genre, Comments and Web link. The title shows in the window caption instead of the file name. Show info on opening shows them when the project opens, and Reset time spent on project zeroes its timer.
The last two tabs are Debug, a short log, and About, which has the version, the licence and Check for updates.