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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517041
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Earl David Earl
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Preface 1. Gearing Up: A Preflight Checklist FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Our Feet Wet: Exploring LMMS 3. Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS 4. Expanding the Beat: Digging Deeper into the Art of Beatmaking 5. Making Spaces: Creating the Emotional Landscape 6. Finding and Creating New Noises 7. Getting It All Stacked Up 8. Spreading Out the Arrangement 9. Gluing the Arrangement Together 10. Getting the Mix Together 11. Getting into Instruments 12. Where to Go from Here A. Pop quiz—Answers Index

Time for action—using panning to spread the song out

We're going to create another pad preset in our ambience project, and write in some interesting parts. We can use panning creatively on the tracks to create an interesting sonic world for our listeners:

  1. From the same My Presets directory that we were in earlier, let's bring in the pad called 0002-sin2x pad.xiz, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—using panning to spread the song out
  2. Pan the previous pad that we have in the project towards the left-hand side, to -48 percent, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—using panning to spread the song out
  3. Pan the new pad that we just introduced in the project towards the right-hand side, to +48 percent, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—using panning to spread the song out
  4. Now let's create Instrument Track elements in both tracks, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—using panning to spread the song out
  5. Now open the Piano-Roll for the pad on the left-hand side of the screen, and write the notes shown in the following screenshot:
  6. Now let's get to the other pad. Try the following notes in the Piano-Roll editor for...
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