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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—setting up MIDI in Linux using ALSA

Linux uses an open source MIDI driver system. Let's look at the process of setting up Linux for MIDI:

  1. In your Settings menu in LMMS, select the area that looks like the following:
    Time for action—setting up MIDI in Linux using ALSA
  2. Once you are in this menu, you should see the ALSA setup and all MIDI devices available to LMMS:

What just happened?

Just choose ALSA and hopefully your devices will be shown in the dropdown menu underneath 'MIDI INTERFACE'. Most soundcards, casual or professional should be detected by the operating system making the setup in ALSA a breeze.

Installing MIDI in Mac OS X

LMMS should automatically see any OS X ready MIDI devices that you have connected to LMMS. The current build of LMMS is CoreMIDI compliant, so you should be able to use a controller immediately. Most modern MIDI devices use CoreMIDI, so set up should be painless and simple.

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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production
Published in: Sep 2012
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849517041
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