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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—creating Chicago style house music

First, let's create a bassline in the Beat+Bassline Editor. We'll need a new editor with an extended length. Let's do it!

  1. Create a new pattern in the Beat+Bassline Editor by clicking on the add beat and bassline button. The button looks like the following:
    Time for action—creating Chicago style house music
  2. Now that we have a new pattern, the pattern will be called Beat/Bassline 1, as shown in the following image:
    Time for action—creating Chicago style house music

    This also adds a Beat+Bassline track to our Song editor. We can toggle back to our previous pattern by clicking on the drop-down menu triangle to the left of the add beat+bassline button. What's really cool is that all of our settings for the instruments are still there!

  3. Go to your sidebar, click the "star" icon to open the My Presets pane and look for a new bass sound. We're going to use the LB302, so locate its folder, and drag the Oh Synth preset to your Beats+Bassline Editor.
  4. Now we need to extend the pattern we have here. To add beats,...
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