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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—panning and volume automation

We can do several different types of automation at once in LMMS. Let's try some panning and volume automation using automation tracks:

  1. Create two new automation lanes in the Beat+Bassline Editor:
    Time for action—panning and volume automation
  2. Now we need to assign pan and volume. Open the AudiofileProcessor, and hold Alt while dragging the Volume knob to the Automation Track. The results should look similar to the following screenshot:
  3. And now, add Panning as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—panning and volume automation
  4. Let's start with panning. Double-click on the Automation Track you selected for panning, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—panning and volume automation
  5. Be sure that the automation window is the same length loop as your Beat+Bassline Editor by pressing the command button and clicking at the end of bar 2. You should see what looks like a green bowtie there:
  6. When panning, 100 is sending all of the sound to the right-hand side and -100 sends all of the sound to the left-hand side. The Automation window automatically...
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