LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production - Helion

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Autor: David Earl
Tytuł oryginału: LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production.
ISBN: 9781849517058
stron: 384, Format: ebook
Data wydania: 2012-09-21
Księgarnia: Helion

Cena książki: 139,00 zł

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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 the process of making great dance music.

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LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production eBook -- 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
- www.PacktPub.com
  - Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
    - Why Subscribe?
    - Free Access for Packt account holders
- 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