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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

By : David Earl
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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

4.8 (5)
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.
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Index

LMMS resources or where's my stuff?

The LMMS application is fairly self-contained, but there are many pre-defined areas that LMMS looks to for its resources.

When we open up LMMS for the first time, we can see where LMMS is looking for its resources by opening the Edit menu and selecting Settings, followed by clicking on the folder icon on the left-hand side of the menu:

This will show us where LMMS is currently pointing to for its resources.

Here's where all those paths are looking:

  • The WORKING directory is where our projects and presets for software instruments are stored.
  • The VST PLUGIN directory is where our installed third-party VST plugins are stored.
  • The ARTWORK and BACKGROUND ARTWORK directories are where we can put custom artwork for changing LMMS' appearance. There are several users on the Internet who have developed custom skins to make LMMS more attractive to the eye.
  • The FL STUDIO INSTALLATION directory is only for Windows users who already have the Fruity Loops application installed on their computer. If it's on the computer, LMMS can access its FLP files for importing into an LMMS session.
  • The LADSPA PLUGIN PATHS directory is where LADSPA plugins are located. LADSPA stands for Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API. Yeah, it's a mouthful, but there are a lot of LADSPA plugins that we can get from the Internet and incorporate them into our studio. They're made by a loving community of developers.
  • The STK RAWWAVE directory contains raw wave files and samples.
  • The SOUNDFONT directory can use soundfont files for sampled instruments. Soundfont files are single documents that are a container of sound files used in simple sampler architectures.

With the exception of the WORKING directory, we can use all of the other directories in their current locations to get up and running.

As for that WORKING directory, we should point that to our shiny new external drive we have. This is the best place to have all of our projects running. Again, please get an external drive!

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