 This video was brought to you by my patrons. Thank you so much for your support synthwave synthwave We are making a synthwave song on LMS. So in this video, we are going to add some effects We are going to add automation. We are going to structure the song so we can have a complete song with start bridge Some climax and it will actually finish fading everything together. We are going to get a really cool song This is the second part. It will have a third part. I don't know how many of them But I think that will end up on the third part. But for this one, let's listen to what we get Let's get to the video in the previous video. We end up with this We have the harmony the beat the melody and everything that we need To have a complete song But we don't have the song yet because we need to create all the structure that will create all the The emotions and the feelings that we want to bring with this song. So for that here on LMS We will basically just mix and match all of these samples that we have here all of these melodies harmonies and beats To create our design So here on the song editor, we can hold control and click and drag on any of those of those tracks to duplicate them so Hold control click and drag And to remove something You can middle click on it and it will be removed from the Song editor, right? So let's start with duplicating this Holding control and dragging to to the right Uh beat and bass lines are a bit different So you can basically just drag them all the way when uh where you want it to twin So it will play repeat it again every every time But for this one as you can see, let's open it This is how it plays And I want the second one to be to have a small variation on this part So I will hold control Click and drag it to the right. I will double click to open the piano roll and I will increase this one to Be and drag this a one octave up as well Let's see how this goes Think that I can bring this up as well One octave hold control shift and pressing up arrow. It will bring it one octave up. Let's see how this goes Yeah, that's it. So the second one will be like this And after this repetition, I want to take rid of the Analog filter so I will only duplicate the analog bass The analog strings and the synth pad. Oh, but I will duplicate the first one So we have this whole structure, right? So I will hold control and drag this one Right on the side of the the variation and I think that we can keep with the beat here But we'll add a row This row here, what is it this one this one Just so we can Tell that we are starting this this beat here basically tells us we are starting a new cycle We are not repeating the previous one. So this is to tell the listener that something will change on this new cycle So let's duplicate this one as well Because now we are going to make the the climax of the music So we are going to drag this one here We'll only have these we won't have the beat now And I want everything to be focused on this part here Because this is what tells the listener that we are It's starting this cycle, right? But I don't want it to be played together with everything I want everything to be focused on this part So we are going to take rid of the bass and of the analog strings right at the end here And we are also going to add a snare row So let's take rid of the bass On these two temp these two final tempos and Of the strings So this is what we are going to get They will be playing And it will start everything again with everything will be back here, so let's add the The analog filter again the bass and not this one this one The strings again and this synth pad then the beat again It will play for two more Repetitions I don't know how this called because we have compass we have tempos and I don't know how this called So this one will also go back it will repeat again And then we can start to finish the music, right? So We're going to have this This This and this But we can stop the beat and everything here But the synth pad will fade out and the synth pad will not end with this This bridge Because this is basically to tell that this will restart the cycle will restart. So instead we are going to finish it Uh changing the using a a4 And it will fade with the with the music. So basically it will end up like this But everything will already be fade Jesus christ can someone remember to do this every time? Join our discord server become my patreon leave a like subscribe to the channel. That's it. I won't take your time Let's get back to the video. Now that we have our song structured. It's time to actually make the automations so automation in music is basically the same thing As the animations on for instance on grow you can animate some properties You can change their value values a long time. So this is how we automate stuff Why this is so important because when you export the song For instance, let's play the song here. Let's add a loop right at the right at the beginning here Right click at the end here And to go the loop points. So let's listen to that I will open this analog filter and what I want to do at the beginning here Is actually I want the the analog the analog strings. So the analog strings will start fading in So to fade it to fade them in I will increase that they will start With a low volume and I will increase this volume until the point where I wanted to to the maximum that I wanted to be so You can see that we don't have anything Now we start to have something We are getting there and there we have it but Believe it or not, we can't do this when the music is exporting. So we need the The software we need lmms to know that we want to animate this property a long time So when we are exporting when we are rendering the music, we will get what we want We will get the animation that we want the values will be The ones that we want at the time we want them we want them to be So to make something like this, we can use automation tracks. So we have one here already, but we can create many of them For me one way that I like to organize this stuff is to actually move the automation track Below what they are automating. So in this case, we are going to animate the analog strings volume So I will you can see that we have some dots on the on the on the left side here So I will left click them and drag them this track below the analog strings and Right click left click on the song on the song editor We will add a automation track And you can drag this all the way where we wanted to to end So you can see that we The automation track doesn't know what it should automate yet. Let me close the analog filter one It doesn't know where what it should automate So indeed in our case, we are going to automate the volume of the analog strings. Let me click here double click and set this to 100 The way that we can tell what this automation track should automate is by holding control And click and dragging the property Uh on top of the automation track So now it knows that it should automate the analog strings. You can see that uh is displayed here analog strings volume Double click on that and we will have the automation editor. So to automate stuff is kind of like a I don't know how it's called But it's it's kind of like curves in good old or something like this. You have automation curves You have animation curves or busy curves stuff like this on animations as well And you can see that we have the compass here Uh with the temples and stuff and everything there. So we wanted to start with zero actually, let's start with something just so The music has something from the beginning and we will end up with a hundred right on the The the last temple the last compass of the Eighth temple compass. I I don't I really don't know how this is called. But anyway, you get it. So, uh, right here You can see that this is a constant track. So it will You can see that there is no curves here is not linear It will change abruptly from one value to another So you can change it. You can change that to make a linear progression And it will automate it like this. So, uh, let's hear the song just with the Analog string and the automation track See, we didn't have to manually change the the property the volume because we already automated it So, uh, now let's make something similar with the analog filter, but But we need to add an effect to the analog filter because we are not going to change its volume We are going to change. Um, the frequencies that the listener will actually listen So, um, to do that, we are going to add an effect called dual fit filter And we are going to because uh, since this is a plugin, so I forgot it again, right? So, uh, what I was showing is that we cannot use this interface here to actually Um add lfo's envelopes and filters But we can use the effects tab that affects chain effects chain You can see here, uh, to add any effect, which is called dual filter And with dual filter you can mix two filters. This is why they are called dual filter. But, uh, for me I will only use the the the left one because it's the only one that is actually Uh, interesting for for our purpose and let's change it to the high field the high pass filter So high pass is a filter that only allows Uh, frequencies beyond the the frequency that we set to pass to the listener And what we are going to do is to Have at the beginning a really low High pass and at the end we will allow every Actually, we are going to start with the really high high pass because we only want some frequencies to pass And then we will close it up and allow every other frequencies to every other frequency to to go through the the filter for that You can see that we have an arrow here and you can select any, uh, Filter here, so we are going to use the high pass We are going to start with the let's create a new automation track here And let's put it below the another filter. Let's make the same thing Let's click and drag it to where we want it to end And let's go back to the filter. Where is it? Okay controls And there we have the the filter So let's start with uh, we are going to automate this frequency. So control drag it to the automation track and drop it there Double click And let's listen to this instrument So I think that let's just Um, allow this one in the automation track to to play So you can see that no Frequency is going beyond that And this is what we are going to do, right? So let's start with maybe 200 and 90 Night 2,900 Probably something like this You don't have to be too Accurate with that. But the the the thing that we want to do is right at the the end right at the start of the ninth The ninth Temple we are going to close it up to one So, uh, let's make this linear A linear progression and this is what we are going to get You can see that it opens At the end, but I think that this is a bit A bit, um The volume Is not what what I want. Let's see Oh, you can see that. Yeah, you have to to turn the mixer The mix all the way to the left And with that we have This effect. So let's start So, uh, let's copy this, uh to where we want the The analog filter to to not be played here But we are actually going to duplicate that Duplicate the automation track as well. But we are going to double click here and we are going to invert this Because we wanted to close the the filter instead of opening So this is what we are going to get at this part. We are going to make the same thing. So, uh Actually here we are going to duplicate it even though we are not playing the instrument here Let's double click and invert this flip it horizontally because we want it to be played when everything come back together and At the end we are going to make the same thing hold control click here and drag it and drop it there and we're also going to Make the same thing with the analog string. So hold control. Let's drag it right here And then we can drag all the way here Let's flip it horizontally And I think that we can make something similar with the base So, uh, let's create another animation track Oops another animation track drag it below the base and Make something like this But instead of the the analog filter, let's open the analog base and Hold in control click and drag its property here even though it's saying Analog strings one. Actually, let's Take rid of that. I think it would be better if I make this manually So holding control left click drag it hit drag it there And at the end I think that Here I'm going to fade it out completely and using a linear progression So this is how it's going to be This is the end of the music Actually, it doesn't finish As I want it So we can basically just make this So we have something like this And that's it. This is the end of the music Now one thing that I'm missing here is that the Um This snare is not as wetty as I wanted it to be It's pretty dry See So let's open the beat and bass line And Open the soft snare and let's add a reverb effect to it Reverb let's use this call for reverb which the the default settings are pretty uh, okay already It's pretty much what I wanted just so we have this wetness to the to the snare We are finished up with this part. So In this part we learned how to make automation. We learned how to make a How to add effects how to make How to structure the song on the next one. We are going to make side chain Since we are going to mix everything together. We are going to add some effects some equalization We still have to Automate some other effects that we are going to add on the mixing table But for this one, we are good So on the next one, we are going to mix everything together add side chaining and have the the song Finished. So for this one, that's it. I really hope you enjoy it. Thank you so much for watching Keep developing and until the next time