- Let's get started by creating a new project and saving it with the name
Ambience
. Now, let's use this pattern to get us started:This beat will be a nice foundation for the project. You can vary it a bit if you like. It's the same pattern from our
Advanced Beatmaking
project. - To get this beat into our song, let's open the Song Editor, which will be on the left-hand side of our project. The Beat+Bassline Editor will show up in the track list of our Song Editor:
- To get our pattern to play in the Song Editor, we simply click on the area next to the track, which gives us an element that is the length of the pattern:
- Now that our pattern is in the Song Editor, let's make the pattern play four times as long. Click next to the elements as they are created to have the pattern repeat itself four times:
- Let's be sure our Song Editor is looping the same number of bars and beats. To do this, hold the command key,...
LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production
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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production
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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)
Preface
Free Chapter
1. Gearing Up: A Preflight Checklist
2. Getting Our Feet Wet: Exploring LMMS
3. Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS
4. Expanding the Beat: Digging Deeper into the Art of Beatmaking
5. Making Spaces: Creating the Emotional Landscape
6. Finding and Creating New Noises
7. Getting It All Stacked Up
8. Spreading Out the Arrangement
9. Gluing the Arrangement Together
10. Getting the Mix Together
11. Getting into Instruments
12. Where to Go from Here
A. Pop quiz—Answers
Index
Customer Reviews