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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—putting reverb on the clap and twiddling it

Let's open up the AudiofileProcessor that's playing the clap and put an effect on it!

  1. Open the AudiofileProcessor for the clap in our Beat+Bassline Editor.
  2. Click on the tab called FX just to the right-hand side of the ENV/LFO and FUNC tabs:
    Time for action—putting reverb on the clap and twiddling it
  3. Now we have the screen looking similar to the following screenshot:
    Time for action—putting reverb on the clap and twiddling it
  4. Click on Add Effect, and choose LADSPA Effect: Calf Reverb LADSPA:
    Time for action—putting reverb on the clap and twiddling it
  5. Click on OK.
  6. Go to the Beat+Bassline Editor, and hit the Space bar. Hear the new reverb?
  7. Now create a new Automation Track and drag the W/D knob from the reverb to the automation lane while holding the Alt key down. If you got it right, you should see something similar to the following screenshot:
  8. Now open the Automation window and draw some curves. The resolution of the curves will be the same as our previous Automation window.
  9. Listen to the result in the Beat+Bassline Editor.

What just happened?

We've assigned a reverb to our clap, and have varied...

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