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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

Using vocoders

In this section, we will prepare MIDI for use in plugins. Then we'll route the MIDI notes into additional instruments and effects, such as vocoder effects. Although we'll specifically discuss vocoders in this chapter, any plugin that uses MIDI as an input will follow the same steps.

In our examples, we will assume that you are using a vocal audio sample to feed into the vocoder. You do have the option of using any sound at all instead of a vocal, and this can be used to create interesting effects.

Harmonizing vocals with Pitcher

To illustrate vocoding, we will first use a built-in FL Studio plugin called Pitcher, which comes with FL Studio Signature Edition and higher. Although it's not advertised as a vocoder, it has vocoder features, and most closely resembles how you use other vocoder plugins on the market. Let's learn how to use Pitcher:

  1. Load up a vocal sample in the Playlist. Either use an existing vocal sample or record a new...