dont be boring

use everything for everything

Pulse: chains 10 - 2F, 50 - 5F
Wav 30- 3F, 60 - 6F,
Noi 40 - 4F

Typically how I organize

I like too layer a wave bass and a pulse channel to get more complex sounds. My organisation is generally terrible though.

Pulse for melodies and basslines, Wave for drums *cough*samples*cough*, Noise for nothing lol

Pulse one: Pulse kicks, melody, Bass.
Pulse Two: Melody, bass.
WAVE: Bass, melody, kits, KICKS, Voice.
Noi: Percussion

All the bass

Actually you can put bass on NOI too, my mate.

PU1 for bass

PU2 for bass

WAV for bass and kicks

noise for snares

https://soundcloud.com/possibly-a-fake- … pid-remake

yeah even stack your channels to get even more diverse and complicated shit. that is the best if you want to get the most from lsdj. yolo lsdjing for sure braaah. a little pulse tom stacked with some noise and you suddenly got a thicker snare then just using one channel. a little burst of noise over a kick and suddenly it pops like crazy. a little blah bla bhal bhalbjalbjkb
you get the idea.

I use the n00bist setup possible, PU1 for leads, PU2 for pulse kicks, WAV for bass, NOI for hihat and snares. Im so used to this I can even write the instruments by memory.

Thanks for the responses this really helps, nice to have some quality info

4reals. you shouldn't limit yourself to anything, the channels on LSDJ are remarkably flexible.

my songs have snares made with a pulse channel mixed with some noise channel. noise kicks mixed up with pulse kicks. fuck it use the wav channel to make a high hat.

When I first started, I used Pulse 1 for Kicks and some Bass, and I almost always use the second pulse for my leads. The Wave used to be my go to guy with Basses but I mainly use it for Kicks and Snares..and BRKs, haha. But when I use Pulse 1 for my kicks, I usually double it with my bass notes. A thing I think I do to much it put a 4/4 dance kick and on the 3rd notes I'll put a bass progression. My music terminology isn't so great this morning.

No method is "better." Bit Shifter has tracks where the WAV channel is melody and somehow the Pulse basslines are juicy and sweet and sound low. Other artists, like IAYD, may use pulse for light kicks and some melodic riffs, then use the WAV for samples and sub-grinding basslines. Check out Andarugo and Hunterquinn if you want some unorthodox noisechannel useage.

Don't limit yourself. You can do anything in any channel, it's just a matter of how hard you are willing to work to make it happen. That is why LSDJ artists can get away with sounding so different while using very very similar hardware. Same goes for everything in chipmusic.