3. Electronic Music vs. Acoustic Music
● Ever since the first electronic musical device
was plugged in, there’s been a love/hate
relationship between the acoustic and
electronic crowds.
● Acoustic Music: It comprises music that solely
or primarily uses instruments which produce
sound through entirely acoustic means.
● Electronic Music: It comprises music that
employs electronic musical instruments and
technology in its production.
4. Electroacoustic Music
● Electroacoustic music originated in Western
art music during the modern era following the
incorporation of electric sound production into
compositional practice.
● Best of both.
● Gaining too much popularity.
6. DAW
● A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an
electronic system designed solely or primarily
for recording, editing and playing back digital
audio.
● DAWs were originally tape-less,
microprocessor-based systems. Modern
DAWs are software running on computers with
audio interface hardware.
7. Famous DAWs
● Commercial
Ableton Live
ACID Pro
FL Studio
Logic Pro
Pro Tools
etc.
● Free/Open Source
Ardour
Ardour
Audacity
LMMS
Open Octave
etc.
8. What is LMMS?
● LMMS is a free cross-platform software which
allows you to produce music with your
computer.
● This covers creating melodies and beats,
synthesizing and mixing sounds and arranging
samples.
9. Why LMMS?
● Free and Open source.
● Cross-Platform: LMMS is available for the
GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, and Microsoft
Windows operating systems. Also ported for
MAC OS X.
● Free alternative for Pro DAWs, and its a direct
alternative for FL Studio.
10. Features
● Song-Editor for composing songs
● A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and
basslines
● An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns
and melodies
● An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary
number of effects allow unlimited mixing
possibilities
11. ● Many powerful instrument and effect plugins
out of the box
● Full user-defined track-based automation and
computer-controlled automation sources
● Compatible with many standards such as
SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches,
and MIDI
● Import of MIDI files, Hydrogen project files and
FL Studio ® project files
12. Musical Terminologies
● Pitch: The highness or lowness of sound
measured in Hz. They are compared as
"higher" and "lower" in the sense associated
with musical melodies.
● Tempo: It is the speed or pace of a given
piece. It is a crucial element of most musical
compositions, as it can affect the mood and
difficulty of a piece. Measured in BPM(Beats
Per Minute).
13. ● Beat: An individual stroke of measured time;
the steady pulse of a song.
● Melody: Pitches in sequence that form a
pattern.
● Rhythm: How a sound is placed in time.
● Sample: Piece/portion of the musical sound.
● Loop: Repeating structure of a beat/sample.
14. Genres
● A music genre is a conventional category that
identifies pieces of music as belonging to a
shared tradition or set of conventions.
● Ex- Blues, African, Country, Asian, Electronic
(House, Trance, Disco, etc.), Hip-Hop, Jazz,
Pop, Rock, R&B, etc.