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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—adding harmonies to beats

Now that our new instrument is in the Beat+Bassline Editor, let's make it say something. Instead of just droning along on the same note, we want to have each step change pitch:

  1. Right-click on the steps' area, and choose Open in piano-roll:
    Time for action—adding harmonies to beats
  2. Now let's find the pitch of our notes, which are playing the new instrument:
    Time for action—adding harmonies to beats
  3. The note pitch is A4. Let's move these notes around a bit by clicking and holding on them, then dragging them to the positions we want:
  4. Now hit the Space bar, and we'll hear the new pitches playing back.
  5. We should now add additional notes above these notes we've just moved around. Place the following notes on our Piano-Roll by clicking in Piano-Roll with the pencil:
    Time for action—adding harmonies to beats
  6. Hit the Space bar to listen to the new notes in the Piano-Roll editor.
  7. Now, close the Piano-Roll and click again on the Beat+Bassline Editor. Hit the Space bar, and listen to where our new instrument plays now.

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