LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Beginner's Guide
Gearing Up: A Preflight Checklist
Getting a studio ready to thump
LMMS resources or where's my stuff?
File management—keeping it together
Time for action—saving our first project
Playing sessions at other studios
Time for action—setting up MIDI in Windows
Time for action—setting up MIDI in Linux using ALSA
A brief introduction to sound cards and audio interfaces
Great resources for inspiring sounds
Time for action—recording with a microphone
The art of listening—controlling your listening environment
Getting Our Feet Wet: Exploring LMMS
What kind of electronic musician are you?
Opening the LMMS default song and making noise!
Time for action—opening a new song template
Using the Beats+Bassline Editor
Time for action—setting the stage to build a beat
Time for action—adding drums to the Beats+Bassline Editor
Time for action—creating a beat pattern
Time for action—editing samples with the Audiofile processor
Time for action—adding elements and variation to our beat pattern
Time for action—adding bass to the Beats+Bassline Editor
Time for action—editing note length and root pitch in the Beats+Bassline Editor
Exploring the Piano Roll editor
Time for action—opening a pattern in the Piano Roll editor
Time for action—changing the pitch of the bassline
Using the Piano Roll in the Song Editor
Time for action—muting instruments in the Beats+Bassline Editor
Time for action—enabling a Piano Roll in the Song Editor
Time for action—enabling a MIDI keyboard controller in the Song Editor
Getting the Mixer to work in our project
Time for action—routing an instrument to a channel on the FX Mixer
What's a plugin? Where do we put 'em?
Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS
Starting our beat with the basics
Time for action—making the most basic of beats
Time for action—fitting the bass in
Time for action—creating Chicago style house music
Tasting the ingredients of dance music
Expanding the Beat: Digging Deeper into the Art of Beatmaking
Time for action—setting up long form patterns
Time for action—adding harmonies to beats
Time for action—making the bass pitch friends with our harmony
Time for action—using the key of the song
Time for action—sweeping a filter using automation
Time for action—panning and volume automation
Time for action—putting reverb on the clap and twiddling it
Making Spaces: Creating the Emotional Landscape
Time for action—moving a pattern into the Song Editor
Time for action—bringing in instruments
Time for action—playing the notes in the Piano Roll editor
Time for action—using panning to spread the song out
Time for action—delaying those stabs!
Time for action—setting up reverb on an FX bus
Finding and Creating New Noises
Time for action—creating a pattern completely from samples, with a drum loop
Time for action—sound sculpting in Audacity
Time for action—setting up the loops
Time for action—making our basses
Time for action—sending clones through effects
Time for action—adding the ambient elements
Using samples in the Song Editor
Time for action—adding a sample track
Time for action—breaking down Imagine by John Lennon
Time for action—spreading out the loop
Gluing the Arrangement Together
Time for action—creating a dropout with the accompanying pitch fall
Time for action—creating a filter sweep
Time for action—adding in effects over time
Time for action—separating audio streams
Time for action—using compression in LMMS
Time for action—exploring echo and simple delays
Time for action—exploring Freeverb
Time for action—exploring vintage reverb
Time for action—exploring oscillators
Time for action—exploring different synthesis methods
Time for action—activating instrument filters