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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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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—moving a pattern into the Song Editor

  1. Let's get started by creating a new project and saving it with the name Ambience. Now, let's use this pattern to get us started:
    Time for action—moving a pattern into the Song Editor

    This beat will be a nice foundation for the project. You can vary it a bit if you like. It's the same pattern from our Advanced Beatmaking project.

  2. To get this beat into our song, let's open the Song Editor, which will be on the left-hand side of our project. The Beat+Bassline Editor will show up in the track list of our Song Editor:
    Time for action—moving a pattern into the Song Editor
  3. To get our pattern to play in the Song Editor, we simply click on the area next to the track, which gives us an element that is the length of the pattern:
    Time for action—moving a pattern into the Song Editor
  4. Now that our pattern is in the Song Editor, let's make the pattern play four times as long. Click next to the elements as they are created to have the pattern repeat itself four times:
    Time for action—moving a pattern into the Song Editor
  5. Let's be sure our Song Editor is looping the same number of bars and beats. To do this, hold the command key,...
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