What is the controller rack used for?

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What the heck do you use the controller rack for? I've been making music with LMMS for several years and I've never used it. I'm sure I read about it in the manual when I started but I either forgot about it or didn't see an immediate need for it and THEN forgot about it.
Foggy wrote:
Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:36 am
the controller rack
http://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Controller_Rack
Still questions, then ask specifically on that.

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What is the controller rack used for"
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musikbear wrote:
Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:04 am
Btw, please edit your topic-title to ..like "
What is the controller rack used for"
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Gotcha, thanks! :) I'll try to do better next time.
@Foggy
musikbear wrote:
Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:04 am
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What is the controller rack used for"
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The peak controller can be great for sidechain compression and the lfo is nice because it can be attached to any single knob in the program.
BQQM wrote:
Tue Jul 04, 2017 6:10 pm
The peak controller can be great for sidechain compression and the lfo is nice because it can be attached to any single knob in the program.
Yeah, now that I looked it up (thanks to Musikbear) I'll probably end up using the lfo for, like, everything. What's sidechain compression, though?
Sidechain compression is where one instrument is compressed based on another. Example would be the bass only getting compressed when the drum hits. Peak controller can be used along with the sidechain compression plugin to create this effect. Would recommend looking up a video tutorial on that.