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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

By : David Earl
Book Image

LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

By: David Earl

Overview of this book

You've scoured the forums, watched the tutorial videos, and done everything you can to learn the secrets of the art of making dance music. Everyone is saying something different about how to get into producing your own projects. This book will help connect the dots and lay a solid foundation of knowledge so you can get beats banging out of LMMS.This book will show you the ins and outs of making Dance music with LMMS. Do you make house, trance, techno or down-tempo? After this book you'll be able to make a song that stands out from the masses, using time honoured tricks of the trade. From inception to conception, this book will help give you a workflow to channel your muse using LMMS.Readers will be given a brief lesson on the best of dance music history, then learn how to recreate it using the Open Source digital workstation - LMMS. The reader will be guided through creating a project from start to finish. By the end of this book, the reader will know how to create a full dance track in LMMS and make it ready for distribution.Along the way, readers will take short stops into music theory, song arranging, recording, and other related information to give them a good foundation for making dance music with depth as well as power. Reading LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production will not just teach the reader how to use LMMS, but also how good dance music is crafted. The reader will not just be taught how to make decisions in LMMS, but when and why. After devouring this book, the reader should be able to focus on his or her creativity, with LMMS as a co-conspirator in the process of making great dance music.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

We need to get our audio separated into individual FX channels and explore the concept of gain staging to get a clear mix. Here's how it's done:

  1. Start with the Beat+Bassline editors in the song Mixing_Start. You can find Mixing_Start at this location:

    http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Chapter_10.zip

  2. Open the Beat+Bassline editor called Main_Loop with CR78:
    Time for action—separating audio streams
  3. Some of the volumes are set to different levels so that the Master FX channel will not clip. Open up the Pad instrument by clicking on it.
  4. In Pad, go to the top where the FX channel can be set:
    Time for action—separating audio streams
  5. Click and hold on the FX CHNL area, and move your mouse up until it says 4:
    Time for action—separating audio streams
  6. Now close the editor, and open the FX Mixer.
  7. Hit the Space bar. We will see that the Pad come through FX channel 4:
    Time for action—separating audio streams
  8. Now the level on FX channel 4 is very low. We should turn the volume on the Pad instrument back to 0 dB:
    Time for action—separating audio streams
  9. Now the level coming through FX channel 4 is looking more robust, although it still...