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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20

By : Joshua Au-Yeung
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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

Exporting audio for third-party mixing and mastering

If you want your music mastered, but don't think you have the skills or plugins to do it yourself, one option is to hire a mastering engineer. One benefit a mastering engineer can provide is an independent set of ears. They will hear your song from an outsider's perspective and may pick up on flaws or ways to enhance your music that you wouldn't think of.

If you want to send a song to a third party to mix or master your music, you should send all the audio from the Mixer Channels in your project. This way, the third party can apply additional effects to your sounds. To export each Mixer Channel as an individual audio file including the master channel, ensure that you're exporting WAV files and that Split mixer tracks is checked when exporting, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.14 – Split mixer tracks

Once they're exported, WAV files will be generated from audio...