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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20

By : Joshua Au-Yeung
Book Image

The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20

By: Joshua Au-Yeung

Overview of this book

FL Studio is a cutting-edge software music production environment and an extremely powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating music. This book will give you everything you need to produce music with FL Studio like a professional. You'll begin by exploring FL Studio 20's vast array of tools, and discover best practices, tips, and tricks for creating music. You'll then learn how to set up your studio environment, create a beat, compose a melody and chord progression, mix sounds with effects, and export songs. As you advance, you'll find out how to use tools such as the Piano roll, mixer console, audio envelopes, types of compression, equalizers, vocoders, vocal chops, and tools for increasing stereo width. The book introduces you to mixing best practices, and shows you how to master your songs. Along the way, you'll explore glitch effects and create your own instruments and custom-designed effect chains. You'll also cover ZGameEditor Visualizer, a tool used for creating reactive visuals for your songs. Finally, you'll learn how to register, sell, and promote your music. By the end of this FL Studio book, you'll be able to utilize cutting-edge tools to fuel your creative ideas, mix music effectively, and publish your songs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1:Getting Up and Running with FL Studio
6
Section 2:Music Production Fundamentals
12
Section 3:Postproduction and Publishing Your Music

Setting up your recording environment

Before recording your audio, you want to be in a location free from background sounds. Ideally, you would be in a soundproof environment.

If you record audio and find there is some consistent background static or hum, it's not the end of the world. If the unwanted sound is at a low volume level, you may be able to remove the unwanted noise using a gate plugin effect. We discussed gates in Chapter 6, Compression, Sidechaining, Limiting, and Equalization.

You'll need to obtain headphones so you can listen to your music playing while you are recording your instrument or vocals. You don't want to hear your song playing in the background on speakers while you're recording sounds, or else the background noise will appear in the recording.

Recording instruments

Recording instruments appears simple on paper, but it takes a surprising amount of effort to do. If you're recording an acoustic instrument, position the microphone...