Written in a step by step tutorial style, learning comes as a result of creating a complete dance music track, along with the explanations that follow each stage. You have a computer and a love for dance and electronic music. Maybe you've been to some clubs, and the energy of electronic dance music has you completely under its spell. You see a DJ spinning, and everyone is dancing. It's infectious. You want to make music that affects people that way. Today the open source community has offered you LMMS. Read this book, and you'll be shown a process to creating great dance music. This book is going to connect the dots if you have already started making dance music, and provide a very solid foundation if you are just getting started â no matter what your skill level is.
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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production
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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Beginner's Guide
Table of Contents
LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for actionâheading
What just happened?
Pop quizâheading
Have a go heroâheading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Gearing Up: A Preflight Checklist
Getting a studio ready to thump
System requirements
Installing LMMS
Installing LMMS on Windows
Installing LMMS on Linux
Installing LMMS on Mac OS X 10.6 and above
LMMS resources or where's my stuff?
File managementâkeeping it together
Managing project versions
Time for actionâsaving our first project
What just happened?
Playing sessions at other studios
Setting up MIDI for LMMS
MIDI keyboards
Control surfaces
Setting up MIDI in Windows
Time for actionâsetting up MIDI in Windows
What just happened?
Setting up MIDI in Linux
Time for actionâsetting up MIDI in Linux using ALSA
What just happened?
Installing MIDI in Mac OS X
Getting sound out of LMMS
Getting on the mic
Dynamic microphone
The condenser microphone
A brief introduction to sound cards and audio interfaces
Great resources for inspiring sounds
Radiohead
Indaba music
Remix comps
CCmixter
Making custom samples
Avoiding painful microphone feedback
Time for actionârecording with a microphone
What just happened?
The art of listeningâcontrolling your listening environment
Composing on the flyâlaptop configurations
Cutting out the worldâchoosing earbuds
Composing in a room with studio monitors
Computer noise, room noise, and hum
Corners are bad
Hardwood floors need a rug
Parallel walls aren't great
Absorption versus diffusion
Speaker choice and placement is important
Get a good chair
Summary
2. Getting Our Feet Wet: Exploring LMMS
What kind of electronic musician are you?
Opening the LMMS default song and making noise!
Time for actionâopening a new song template
What just happened?
The Main Menu bar
The Project menu
The Edit menu
The Tools menu
The Help menu
Clicking through the toolbar
The top row of buttons on the left-hand side
The bottom row of buttons on the left-hand side
Other features of the toolbar
Exploring the goodies in the side bar
Using the Beats+Bassline Editor
Time for actionâsetting the stage to build a beat
What just happened?
Time for actionâadding drums to the Beats+Bassline Editor
What just happened?
Time for actionâcreating a beat pattern
What just happened?
Our first tweaking of samples
Time for actionâediting samples with the Audiofile processor
What just happened?
Time for actionâadding elements and variation to our beat pattern
What just happened?
Adding instruments to the Beats+Bassline EditorâBass
Time for actionâadding bass to the Beats+Bassline Editor
What just happened?
Our first tweaking of a synth
Time for actionâediting note length and root pitch in the Beats+Bassline Editor
Exploring the Piano Roll editor
Time for actionâopening a pattern in the Piano Roll editor
What just happened?
Time for actionâchanging the pitch of the bassline
What just happened?
Using the Piano Roll in the Song Editor
Time for actionâmuting instruments in the Beats+Bassline Editor
What just happened?
Time for actionâenabling a Piano Roll in the Song Editor
What just happened?
Time for actionâenabling a MIDI keyboard controller in the Song Editor
What just happened?
Getting the Mixer to work in our project
Time for actionârouting an instrument to a channel on the FX Mixer
What just happened?
What's a plugin? Where do we put 'em?
Time for actionâexploring FX
What just happened?
Summary
3. Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS
Starting our beat with the basics
Time for actionâmaking the most basic of beats
What just happened?
Time for actionâfitting the bass in
What just happened?
Other styles in dance music
Chicago style house music
Time for actionâcreating Chicago style house music
What just happened?
Have a go heroâcreate dance music patterns
New York House
Acid House
Breakbeat
Jungle, Drum and Bass, and Braindance
Tasting the ingredients of dance music
Drums
The bass drum
The hi-hat
The snare drum
The tom-tom
Basses
The upright bass
The electric bass
The synth bass
The SH-101
The TB303
Drum machines
The Roland TR808
The Roland TR909
The LinnDrum
The SP1200
Samplers
Other notables
Have a go heroâfinding your style
Pop quiz!
Summary
4. Expanding ...
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