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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 a pattern completely from samples, with a drum loop

LMMS already comes with a lot of samples in its library. Let's make a pattern that utilizes them, and then explore using drum loops:

  1. Create a new project in LMMS.
  2. Save this project as Samples Project.
  3. Open the side bar.
  4. Open the My Samples folder.
  5. Open the Misc folder and highlight snaph01.ogg:
    Time for action—creating a pattern completely from samples, with a drum loop
  6. Drag the snaph01 sample to your Beat+Bassline Editor.
    Time for action—creating a pattern completely from samples, with a drum loop
  7. Let's put this snap on the bars two and four of this 4/4 measure, as shown in the following screenshot. Every four beats in this pattern represent a quarter note of time. This 32 beat pattern is four quarter notes long, so here is the proper placement:
  8. Now revisit the My samples folder, and choose a kick, bass, and hihat to add to this pattern. Use the following samples and create the following pattern:
    Time for action—creating a pattern completely from samples, with a drum loop
  9. This beat is a techno beat, and fits the tempo of 140 very well. Now let's add the following elements:
    • From My Samples | Instruments add violinpizzicato01...
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