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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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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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—exploring echo and simple delays

LMMS has a lot of delays and reverbs, but the categories can be broken down so that they are easier to understand:

  1. Mute all FX channels in the Mixer except for TechSynth1.
  2. Go to the effects chain for TechSynth1, and click on Add Effect.
  3. Select LADSPA Echo Delay Line (Maximum Delay 5s).

    This is a very simple delay, called an echo. Delays like this do not incorporate reverb. They simply repeat whatever signal they receive. Adjust the delay knob to get a longer or shorter delay. Use the Dry/Wet Balance knob to adjust the level of the delay to the original signal. Play around with these settings and listen to the result.

  4. Click on the Link Channels button to make Channel 1 and Channel 2 independent of each other.
  5. Now set Channel 1 to 2550 ms and Channel 2 to 800 ms:
    Time for action—exploring echo and simple delays
  6. Now listen to this simple echo. It should sound as if the sound is bouncing from the left to the right speaker.
  7. Now go back to the effects chain and disable the echo.
  8. Add the LADSPA...
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