LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production

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You've scoured the forums, watched the tutorial videos, and done everything you can to learn the secrets of the art of making dance music. Everyone is saying something different about how to get into producing your own projects. This book will help connect the dots and lay a solid foundation of knowledge so you can get beats banging out of LMMS.This book will show you the ins and outs of making Dance music with LMMS. Do you make house, trance, techno or down-tempo? After this book you'll be able to make a song that stands out from the masses, using time honoured tricks of the trade. From inception to conception, this book will help give you a workflow to channel your muse using LMMS.Readers will be given a brief lesson on the best of dance music history, then learn how to recreate it using the Open Source digital workstation - LMMS. The reader will be guided through creating a project from start to finish. By the end of this book, the reader will know how to create a full dance track in LMMS and make it ready for distribution.Along the way, readers will take short stops into music theory, song arranging, recording, and other related information to give them a good foundation for making dance music with depth as well as power. Reading LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production will not just teach the reader how to use LMMS, but also how good dance music is crafted. The reader will not just be taught how to make decisions in LMMS, but when and why. After devouring this book, the reader should be able to focus on his or her creativity, with LMMS as a co-conspirator in (...) więcej the process of making great dance music. Spis treści:
LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Beginners Guide
Table of Contents
LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for actionheading
What just happened?
Pop quizheading
Have a go heroheading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Gearing Up: A Preflight Checklist
Getting a studio ready to thump
System requirements
Installing LMMS
Installing LMMS on Windows
Installing LMMS on Linux
Installing LMMS on Mac OS X 10.6 and above
LMMS resources or where's my stuff?
File managementkeeping it together
Managing project versions
Time for actionsaving our first project
What just happened?
Playing sessions at other studios
Setting up MIDI for LMMS
MIDI keyboards
Control surfaces
Setting up MIDI in Windows
Time for actionsetting up MIDI in Windows
What just happened?
Setting up MIDI in Linux
Time for actionsetting up MIDI in Linux using ALSA
What just happened?
Installing MIDI in Mac OS X
Getting sound out of LMMS
Getting on the mic
Dynamic microphone
The condenser microphone
A brief introduction to sound cards and audio interfaces
Great resources for inspiring sounds
Radiohead
Indaba music
Remix comps
CCmixter
Making custom samples
Avoiding painful microphone feedback
Time for actionrecording with a microphone
What just happened?
The art of listeningcontrolling your listening environment
Composing on the flylaptop configurations
Cutting out the worldchoosing earbuds
Composing in a room with studio monitors
Computer noise, room noise, and hum
Corners are bad
Hardwood floors need a rug
Parallel walls aren't great
Absorption versus diffusion
Speaker choice and placement is important
Get a good chair
Summary
2. Getting Our Feet Wet: Exploring LMMS
What kind of electronic musician are you?
Opening the LMMS default song and making noise!
Time for actionopening a new song template
What just happened?
The Main Menu bar
The Project menu
The Edit menu
The Tools menu
The Help menu
Clicking through the toolbar
The top row of buttons on the left-hand side
The bottom row of buttons on the left-hand side
Other features of the toolbar
Exploring the goodies in the side bar
Using the Beats+Bassline Editor
Time for actionsetting the stage to build a beat
What just happened?
Time for actionadding drums to the Beats+Bassline Editor
What just happened?
Time for actioncreating a beat pattern
What just happened?
Our first tweaking of samples
Time for actionediting samples with the Audiofile processor
What just happened?
Time for actionadding elements and variation to our beat pattern
What just happened?
Adding instruments to the Beats+Bassline EditorBass
Time for actionadding bass to the Beats+Bassline Editor
What just happened?
Our first tweaking of a synth
Time for actionediting note length and root pitch in the Beats+Bassline Editor
Exploring the Piano Roll editor
Time for actionopening a pattern in the Piano Roll editor
What just happened?
Time for actionchanging the pitch of the bassline
What just happened?
Using the Piano Roll in the Song Editor
Time for actionmuting instruments in the Beats+Bassline Editor
What just happened?
Time for actionenabling a Piano Roll in the Song Editor
What just happened?
Time for actionenabling a MIDI keyboard controller in the Song Editor
What just happened?
Getting the Mixer to work in our project
Time for actionrouting an instrument to a channel on the FX Mixer
What just happened?
What's a plugin? Where do we put 'em?
Time for actionexploring FX
What just happened?
Summary
3. Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS
Starting our beat with the basics
Time for actionmaking the most basic of beats
What just happened?
Time for actionfitting the bass in
What just happened?
Other styles in dance music
Chicago style house music
Time for actioncreating Chicago style house music
What just happened?
Have a go herocreate dance music patterns
New York House
Acid House
Breakbeat
Jungle, Drum and Bass, and Braindance
Tasting the ingredients of dance music
Drums
The bass drum
The hi-hat
The snare drum
The tom-tom
Basses
The upright bass
The electric bass
The synth bass
The SH-101
The TB303
Drum machines
The Roland TR808
The Roland TR909
The LinnDrum
The SP1200
Samplers
Other notables
Have a go herofinding your style
Pop quiz!
Summary
4. Expanding the Beat: Digging Deeper into the Art of Beatmaking
Starting fresh
Time for actionsetting up long form patterns
What just happened?
Time for actionadding harmonies to beats
What just happened?
Placing the bass
Time for actionmaking the bass pitch friends with our harmony
What just happened?
Giving the beat a turnaround
The importance of knowing just a little music theory
The major scale
How to figure out a major scale
The minor scale
Putting a number to a note
Time for actionusing the key of the song
What just happened?
Simple guidelines for the bass
Have a go herocreating your own beat
Twiddling knobs to set the beat
Tweaking the bass tone
Time for actionsweeping a filter using automation
What just happened?
Time for actionpanning and volume automation
What just happened?
Using automation on instrument effects
Time for actionputting reverb on the clap and twiddling it
What just happened?
Have a go herobuilding your own automations
Pop quiz
Summary
5. Making Spaces: Creating the Emotional Landscape
Using the Song Editor
Getting the Beats+Bassline Editor's pattern into the Song Editor
Time for actionmoving a pattern into the Song Editor
What just happened?
Different elements for the Song Editor
Adding new parts to the Song Editor from the side bar
Time for actionbringing in instruments
What just happened?
Inputting notes into the Piano Roll in real time
Time for actionplaying the notes in the Piano Roll editor
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Time for actionusing panning to spread the song out
What just happened?
Blending the old with the new
Time for actiondelaying those stabs!
What just happened?
Delay versus reverb
Using FX channels to reduce CPU usage
Time for actionsetting up reverb on an FX bus
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Listening to the masters of space
Pop quiz
Summary
6. Finding and Creating New Noises
Sampling audio
Early sampling
The grey area
Getting into LMMS samples
Time for actioncreating a pattern completely from samples, with a drum loop
What just happened?
The art of sampling
Digital recording
Recording on the main computer
Software for grabbing audio goodies
Unbalanced versus balanced cables
Unbalanced cable
Balanced cables
One-eighth-inch mini stereo cable
Using handheld recorders
The Sony PCM-M10
The Zoom H4n
Finding sounds on the Internet that won't get you sued
Time for actionsound sculpting in Audacity
What just happened?
Have a go hero
A note about bits and samples
Pop quiz
Summary
7. Getting It All Stacked Up
Get your loop set
Time for actionsetting up the loops
What just happened?
Adding instruments
Time for actionmaking our basses
What just happened?
Making that break dirty
Time for actiondirty bass
What just happened?
Send that sound out to get effected
Time for actionsending clones through effects
What just happened?
Adding in the smooth
Time for actionadding the ambient elements
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Using samples in the Song Editor
Time for actionadding a sample track
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Pop quiz
Summary
8. Spreading Out the Arrangement
The art of arranging
Analyzing Imagine by John Lennon
Time for actionbreaking down Imagine by John Lennon
What just happened?
The purpose of the bridge
The art of the break
Time for actionanalyzing One
What just happened?
Laying it out for our project
Time for actionspreading out the loop
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Pop quiz
Summary
9. Gluing the Arrangement Together
The art of the transition
Using dropouts
Time for actioncreating a dropout with the accompanying pitch fall
What just happened?
Creating filter sweeps
Time for actioncreating a filter sweep
What just happened?
Time for actionadding in effects over time
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Pop quiz
Summary
10. Getting the Mix Together
What is mixing?
Audio energy
Digital clipping and you
Time for actionseparating audio streams
What just happened?
The mixing ABCs
Volume balancing
Panning and stereo separation
Low frequency sound
Drums
Keyboards, leads, and pads
Vocal samples
Other panning considerations
Dynamics
Compressors and limiters
Time for actionusing compression in LMMS
What just happened?
Filtering
Time for actionusing EQ
What just happened?
Types of equalizations
Shelf EQ
Low and high pass EQ
Parametric EQ
Band pass EQ
Delay-based plugins
Time for actionexploring echo and simple delays
What just happened?
The Haas effect
Time for actionexploring Freeverb
What just happened?
Plates, springs, and convolution
Plate reverbs
Spring reverbs
Time for actionexploring vintage reverb
What just happened?
Automation
Have a go hero!
Exporting the mix
What's Mastering?
Pop quiz
Summary
11. Getting into Instruments
The instruments of LMMS
The language of synthesis
The main parts of an instrument
The Oscillator section
Sine waves
Figuring out the harmonic series
Sawtooth waves
Square waves
Triangle waves
Noise
Other waves
Parameters of the Oscillator section
Time for actionexploring oscillators
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Types of synthesis
Mix
Phase modulation synthesis
Frequency modulation synthesis
Sync
Amplitude modulation
Time for actionexploring different synthesis methods
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Experimenting with subtractive synthesis
Time for actionactivating instrument filters
What just happened?
Using modulation
Using envelopes
Using LFOs
Time for actionassigning modulators in LMMS
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Using the Function tab
Chords
Arpeggio
Arpeggio modes Sort and Sync
The different instruments of LMMS
Bit Invader
Kicker
LB-302
Mallets
Organic
FreeBoy
PatMan
SF2
Vestige
Vibed
ZynAddSubFx
Summary
12. Where to Go from Here
Guilds, societies, and such
ASCAP
BMI
SESAC
Where to sell my stuff
Beatport
iTunes
CD Baby
Tunecore
Music labels
Community
User groups
Soundcloud
Summary
A. Pop quizAnswers
Chapter 3: Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS
Chapter 4: Expanding the Beat: Digging Deeper into the Art of Beatmaking
Chapter 5: Making Spaces: Creating the Emotional Landscape
Chapter 6: Finding and Creating New Noises
Chapter 7: Getting it All Stacked Up
Chapter 8: Spreading Out the Arrangement
Chapter 9: Gluing the Arrangement Together
Chapter 10: Getting the Mix Together
Index O autorze: David Earl is a music composer, producer, and performer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. His music has been heard in Film, Television, Audio Branding, and Video Games. David’s has worked for clients such as Brown Paper Bag, Summit Pictures, Double Fine, Activision, THQ, Lila Rose, Artemis, Sony, Pyramind, Ripesound, and the Juno Company. David has been balancing a life of intense creativity with a deep desire to teach. For the past 10 years, he has helped to develop various curricula for Pyramind in San Francisco. He is an Apple Certified Logic instructor, and also teaches Modular Synthesis using Reaktor. As a purely innocent and altruistic endeavor, David started posting tutorial videos to YouTube as ‘sflogicninja’ in 2007 as an attempt to help fellow producers. He now has a following of over 25,000 subscribers worldwide. He has since started creating tutorials for MacProVideo, and creates additional video material for Pyramind Online; the Online counterpart to their brick and mortar training center. David has collaborated with other writers in his field, but LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production is his first official effort. mniej