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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 long form patterns

We're going to be creating longer patterns for this section. Upon opening LMMS, we need to get set up again. Do the following to get set up:

  1. Open LMMS.
  2. Create a new project.
  3. Save the new project as Advanced Beatmaking.
  4. Drag the sample kick_hiphop01 from the side bar My Samples | Drums to the Beat+Bassline Editor.
  5. Extend the editor to 32 steps.

    Now our Beat+Bassline Editor is good to go. If you need to review the process of getting the Beat+Bassline Editor set up, refer to Chapter 3, Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS.xs

    After this initial setup, we need to decide a couple of things right out of the gate. We've explored some different styles of music and determined that tempo is a big factor for what kind of beat we are going to create. Most dance music lives within the tempo range of 120 and 135 beats per minute (bpm). There are styles that are slower and faster, but the sweet spot is really from 120 bpm to 135 bpm.

    Let&apos...

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