LMMS is a great free DAW in this lmms tutorial I'm going to go over how to use
the lmms fx mixer so if you want to create great music and great beats in
this free DAW keep watching welcome to simple green tech I'm Radio
Zane and on this channel I do audio tech tips tutorials and reviews to help you
unleash your creativity now today I'm doing a follow-up video to my lmms
getting started tutorial / review and today we're looking at how to use
the LMMS FX mixer I have a few instruments loaded into lmms with some
basic MIDI information on each instrument but as you can see when I
click the FX mixer button I don't have anything routed to the mixer yet
there are a couple of ways we can set this up and the easiest way is to go to
the song editor and click on the gear icon beside the instrument that you want
to route to a mixer channel then click where it says fx0 master and
then click on assign to new effects channel
and you'll see that this has now created a new effects channel named after that
instrument one tip that I'll give you is if you don't want to constantly have to
go up and click on the button for the mixer so you can see it just click on
this mixer icon right here in the corner of the mixer window and then click on
stay on top and now if you click out of it it's going to stay on top and what I
like to do is bring it down to the bottom of the screen and then I stretch
it out right across and this is how I have it set up in FL Studio as well now
if you want to change this track name we could call it synth or whatever we want
to call this track I'm going to leave it as synth because I believe that is sort
of a synth track right there you can do this for each track that you want to
assign to a mix or channel now that's one way that you can do it I'll show you
the other way that we can do so I'm going to get rid of these channels here
so first we're going to create a channel in here by clicking the plus sign and
now we have a FX one channel now we'll click over here on to the instrument
that we want to add to that channel and we'll bring up the user interface here
and you can either go into where it says FX0 you can click and drag it
up until it's at the channel you want or you can right click there and then
assign to fx 1
and now it's assigned to FX 1 there
and we'll rename that to that's our bass track so I'll just call that bass and
I'm going to add our synth again
then I'll add our drum kit
all right so let's see what that looks like with everything routed to a channel
so now that you have your instruments routed to the FX mixer you can
easily adjust the levels using the faders on each channel strip
you can also click on these LED lights to either mute or solo a track so let's
listen back here and we have the bass muted and then I'll click here
and that's how you solo it you'll also see that there's a send button at the
top here I'm going to get into that in just a little bit but first I want to
show you how to add effects to each channel so click on the channel that you
want to add in effect to so I'll click on drums and then you go over here to
where it says effects chain click on the little LED button there now click on add
effect and then you'll just choose your effect from the list here
and you can add several effects to this channel if you want you can keep adding
them and adding them and adding them all you like
and if you close down the user interface and you want to get it back up you would
just click on the controls button right there and that brings the user interface
back up if you want to audition how it sounds with and without the effect you
can play it back and click the little LED button right here to turn it off and
back on
now I'll quickly go over sends and for this I'm going to create a new mixer
Channel and I'm going to name this buss now I'll click on the channel that I
want to route to that so let's say I want to route the synth to that click
there and then I click send on the buss channel you'll now see this control here
which controls the amount of the synth channel that I want to send to this buss
and you can add more than one channel to be routed to the same buss so let's route
this one to there as well and if want to control the level of each
individual track that's sent there you would just click on the synth one use
this control and then click on your other one and you'd use the control that
way and to remove a send from a channel you would just click on the one that you
want to remove so let's say we want to remove the bass and then we would click
on the green send button and make sure it's white and that's removed the send
from there you can also route busses to other buses or you can route a single
channel to multiple busses so it doesn't just have to send to one you can send it
to multiple busses if you really want to also don't forget you can add effects
the master channel over here so when you're mastering and doing your final
mixing you want to set those up with your EQ and your compression and
whatever else you use for your mastering and this should give you an idea of how
to use the fx mixer in lmms click up here to see my lmms tutorial playlist
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