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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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Time for action—making the bass pitch friends with our harmony

For our first bassline to go with this beat, we are going to have the bass follow the kick:

  1. Grab the sample bass_acid02 from the My Samples | Basses folder.
  2. Add the sample to the Beat+Bassline Editor.
  3. Add 16 steps to the new instrument.
  4. Use the steps shown in the following screenshot for our new bass pattern:
    Time for action—making the bass pitch friends with our harmony
  5. Now hit the Space bar. It doesn't sound great, right? Let's open the Piano-Roll and change the bass note.
  6. Open the Piano-Roll for bass_acid02.
  7. Change your tool to Select Mode by using the Shift + s keys or clicking on the icon that looks similar to the following screenshot:
    Time for action—making the bass pitch friends with our harmony
  8. Click-and-drag over the notes in the Piano-Roll. The volumes at the bottom of the Piano-Roll should turn blue:
    Time for action—making the bass pitch friends with our harmony
  9. Now that the notes are selected, switch back to the pencil tool, and drag the notes down to F sharp 4:
    Time for action—making the bass pitch friends with our harmony
  10. Now go to the Beat+Bassline Editor and hit the Space bar. This bass note sounds better, right?
  11. Turn the volume of the new bassline down...

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