LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production电子书

LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Beginner's 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 action—heading

What just happened?

Pop quiz—heading

Have a go hero—heading

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 management—keeping it together

Managing project versions

Time for action—saving 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 action—setting up MIDI in Windows

What just happened?

Setting up MIDI in Linux

Time for action—setting 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 action—recording with a microphone

What just happened?

The art of listening—controlling your listening environment

Composing on the fly—laptop configurations

Cutting out the world—choosing 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 action—opening 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 action—setting the stage to build a beat

What just happened?

Time for action—adding drums to the Beats+Bassline Editor

What just happened?

Time for action—creating a beat pattern

What just happened?

Our first tweaking of samples

Time for action—editing samples with the Audiofile processor

What just happened?

Time for action—adding elements and variation to our beat pattern

What just happened?

Adding instruments to the Beats+Bassline Editor—Bass

Time for action—adding bass to the Beats+Bassline Editor

What just happened?

Our first tweaking of a synth

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

What just happened?

Time for action—changing the pitch of the bassline

What just happened?

Using the Piano Roll in the Song Editor

Time for action—muting instruments in the Beats+Bassline Editor

What just happened?

Time for action—enabling a Piano Roll in the Song Editor

What just happened?

Time for action—enabling a MIDI keyboard controller in the Song Editor

What just happened?

Getting the Mixer to work in our project

Time for action—routing an instrument to a channel on the FX Mixer

What just happened?

What's a plugin? Where do we put 'em?

Time for action—exploring FX

What just happened?

Summary

3. Getting Our Hands Dirty: Creating in LMMS

Starting our beat with the basics

Time for action—making the most basic of beats

What just happened?

Time for action—fitting the bass in

What just happened?

Other styles in dance music

Chicago style house music

Time for action—creating Chicago style house music

What just happened?

Have a go hero—create 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 hero—finding your style

Pop quiz!

Summary

4. Expanding the Beat: Digging Deeper into the Art of Beatmaking

Starting fresh

Time for action—setting up long form patterns

What just happened?

Time for action—adding harmonies to beats

What just happened?

Placing the bass

Time for action—making 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 action—using the key of the song

What just happened?

Simple guidelines for the bass

Have a go hero—creating your own beat

Twiddling knobs to set the beat

Tweaking the bass tone

Time for action—sweeping a filter using automation

What just happened?

Time for action—panning and volume automation

What just happened?

Using automation on instrument effects

Time for action—putting reverb on the clap and twiddling it

What just happened?

Have a go hero—building 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 action—moving 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 action—bringing in instruments

What just happened?

Inputting notes into the Piano Roll in real time

Time for action—playing the notes in the Piano Roll editor

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Time for action—using panning to spread the song out

What just happened?

Blending the old with the new

Time for action—delaying those stabs!

What just happened?

Delay versus reverb

Using FX channels to reduce CPU usage

Time for action—setting 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 action—creating 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 action—sound 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 action—setting up the loops

What just happened?

Adding instruments

Time for action—making our basses

What just happened?

Making that break dirty

Time for action—dirty bass

What just happened?

Send that sound out to get effected

Time for action—sending clones through effects

What just happened?

Adding in the smooth

Time for action—adding the ambient elements

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Using samples in the Song Editor

Time for action—adding 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 action—breaking down Imagine by John Lennon

What just happened?

The purpose of the bridge

The art of the break

Time for action—analyzing One

What just happened?

Laying it out for our project

Time for action—spreading 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 action—creating a dropout with the accompanying pitch fall

What just happened?

Creating filter sweeps

Time for action—creating a filter sweep

What just happened?

Time for action—adding 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 action—separating 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 action—using compression in LMMS

What just happened?

Filtering

Time for action—using EQ

What just happened?

Types of equalizations

Shelf EQ

Low and high pass EQ

Parametric EQ

Band pass EQ

Delay-based plugins

Time for action—exploring echo and simple delays

What just happened?

The Haas effect

Time for action—exploring Freeverb

What just happened?

Plates, springs, and convolution

Plate reverbs

Spring reverbs

Time for action—exploring 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 action—exploring oscillators

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Types of synthesis

Mix

Phase modulation synthesis

Frequency modulation synthesis

Sync

Amplitude modulation

Time for action—exploring different synthesis methods

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Experimenting with subtractive synthesis

Time for action—activating instrument filters

What just happened?

Using modulation

Using envelopes

Using LFOs

Time for action—assigning 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 quiz—Answers

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