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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

Time for action—adding elements and variation to our beat pattern

Let's add additional content to our pattern. Adding variation will help keep things from getting repetitive or gasp boring:

  1. Hit your Space bar to temporarily suspend playback of the editor.
  2. Go to the Side Bar and drag over hihat_closed01.
  3. In the new step sequencer, let's put that hi-hat on these beats:
    Time for action—adding elements and variation to our beat pattern
  4. Now hit the Space bar again.
  5. This pattern works well, but maybe we want a little more variation in the hi-hat. We can add steps to our step sequencer by right-clicking in the step area and choosing to add more steps. The more variation and the longer the sequence, the less repetitive our project will sound.
  6. When we right-click on the pattern, we get the following menu:
    Time for action—adding elements and variation to our beat pattern
  7. In this menu, let's head down to Add steps. Choose Add 16 steps. Do this for all of the patterns.
  8. Now our sequencer should change to reflect the new extended hi-hat pattern! Drag the window out to make the steps easier to see.
  9. Let's add some...

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