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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517041
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David Earl David Earl
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Gearing Up: A Preflight Checklist FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Our Feet Wet: Exploring LMMS 3. Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS 4. Expanding the Beat: Digging Deeper into the Art of Beatmaking 5. Making Spaces: Creating the Emotional Landscape 6. Finding and Creating New Noises 7. Getting It All Stacked Up 8. Spreading Out the Arrangement 9. Gluing the Arrangement Together 10. Getting the Mix Together 11. Getting into Instruments 12. Where to Go from Here A. Pop quiz—Answers Index

Time for action—making our basses

We need to start adding elements to our song editor to cover our bassline for the song. Instead of using the Beat+Bassline Editor, we're going to use the Piano-Roll:

  1. Go to the side bar, and open up the instruments. We're going to use the LB302 as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—making our basses
  2. Click on the LB302 and drag it to the Song Editor, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—making our basses
  3. Now click next to the track to get a new element for this instrument, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—making our basses
  4. Double-click on that element to give us the Piano-Roll editor. We will write a basic bassline to compliment our beat.
  5. In the Song Editor, set the loop area to four bars. Right-click on bar five as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action—making our basses
  6. Press the Space bar to hear the four bar loop.
  7. Leave the Song Editor playing as we create our bassline.
  8. Now open the element next to our LB302, and write the following notes in the Piano-Roll:
    Time for action—making our basses

    Listen to the beat playing along with this new bassline...

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