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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—sending clones through effects

When we have a Beat+Bassline Editor, it can be time consuming to go to each instrument and choose the set of effects we like, then go to the next audiofile processor of the drum pattern, and go through the same process of opening the effects and assigning the settings. So we're going to explore using a dedicated FX bus to give us alternate drum pattern effects:

  1. Now let's visit our drum patterns and create clones for each drum pattern.

    The following screenshot shows what will come up at the bottom of the track list:

    Time for action—sending clones through effects
  2. We need to reorder this list so that the clones are next to their parent tracks. Use the textured area to the left-hand side of the action menu on the track, to move the track vertically. The textured area looks similar to the following screenshot:
    Time for action—sending clones through effects

    Now our tracks should be named to reflect what they sound like, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Time for action—sending clones through effects
  3. Open up the Beat+Bassline Editor and choose Main Beat FX 1.
  4. On each AudioFileProcessor...
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