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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—spreading out the loop

In Chapter 7, Getting It All Stacked up, we created a loop and variations. This time around, we need to spread the content of our main loop out for the duration of a song:

  1. Mute all of the elements in the Song Editor:
    Time for action—spreading out the loop

    All of the tracks need to be muted. So make sure that all of the mute buttons are lit up:

    Time for action—spreading out the loop
  2. Grab the right-hand side of our sample, and trim the element so that it is only eight bars long. We are going to build this song in eight bar segments. Building a song in repeating eight bar chunks will give nice structure to the song's overall arrangement:
  3. Make sure to mute the sample once you're done.
  4. Now press Ctrl + click on the sample, and click again immediately to the right-hand side of the sample. Repeat this until you have 96 bars filled:
    Time for action—spreading out the loop
  5. Repeat this with all of the other elements. Your full arrangement length should be covered by all of the elements:
  6. Now that we have our arrangement spread out, we're going to create our early...
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