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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 Vocodex

Vocodex is a traditional vocoder and allows you to modulate a vocal. It is used a little differently than most vocoder plugins, though, as it doesn't require MIDI Out to operate. Instead, you can directly use an instrument sound in the Mixer.

Let's begin using Vocodex:

  1. To start, you will need to already have a vocal and an instrument playing chords routed to the Mixer. We already did this in steps 1–6 in the preceding section on Harmonizing vocals with Pitcher; go through those steps first if you haven't already.

    In the Vocoder Mixer channel that we created earlier, mute any other effects and add the Vocodex plugin, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 9.9 – Adding Vocodex

  2. Select the FL Keys Mixer channel and the Vocal Mixer channel and route them to the Vocoder channel by right-clicking on the Vocoder Mixer channel arrow and selecting the Route to this track only option, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 9.10...