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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 2. Getting Our Feet Wet: Exploring LMMS FREE CHAPTER 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—enabling a MIDI keyboard controller in the Song Editor

In the Song Editor, if we want to use a MIDI keyboard controller, it's pretty simple:

  1. On the instrument you wish to allow input for, click on its Track Tools icon:
    Time for action—enabling a MIDI keyboard controller in the Song Editor
  2. In this list, we see three options: Clone this Track, Remove this Track, and MIDI.
  3. If we choose MIDI, we can designate which of the MIDI controllers hooked up to our system we want to use:
    Time for action—enabling a MIDI keyboard controller in the Song Editor

What just happened?

Now we have the ability to record MIDI notes directly into the Piano Roll editor if we get bored with inputting all of the notes by hand. We'll do some of that in Chapter 5, Making Spaces.

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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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