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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

Recording audio into FL Studio

Let's record audio into FL Studio:

  1. Select the position in the Playlist of your song where you want to begin recording from. Left-click to place your cursor on the Playlist timeline.
  2. Check that the Countdown before recording button is selected as shown in the following screenshot. This will give you a few seconds to prepare when you are recording:

    Figure 8.5 – Record countdown

  3. Open your Mixer and left-click on a new Mixer track to select it. When you record, your audio will be recorded into this audio Mixer channel and then sent to the Playlist. If you have effect plugins on the Mixer channel, for instance, pitch correction plugins such as autotune, this will be applied while recording the audio file. Usually, you'll want to apply effects later in mixing, but it is possible to do so at this point.
  4. Once you've chosen your Mixer channel, ensure that Song is selected on the Transport panel, and then press the record...