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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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Time for action—using EQ

We are going to use EQ to try and make our sound sample a bit sweeter:

  1. Turn the FX channel for the SampleBreak on, and turn the Kick FX Channel off.
  2. Listen to Sample Break.
  3. On the Sample Break FX Channel, add this EQ: LADSPA Effect: C* Eq2x2 — stereo 10-band equalizer
  4. Open the Control Panel. You will see rows of knobs:
    Time for action—using EQ
  5. Press play in the Song Editor.
  6. While the SampleBreak is playing, turn each knob of the plugin controls. Listen to how it changes the timbre of the sound.
  7. Use the setting, shown in the following screenshot, for the Eq2x2:
    Time for action—using EQ
  8. Turn the plugin on and off while the song is playing to get an idea of how the EQ is affecting the sound of the SampleBreak.
  9. Now turn the other channels in the FX Mixer on and off to get an idea of how the SampleBreak fits with the rest of the mix.
  10. Make your own adjustments to the EQ settings, and turn the rest of the FX channels on in the mixer.

What just happened?

We just used equalization to help shape the timbre of a sound.

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