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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 the main header Toolbar features

Now that we understand some of the main workbench tools, let's take a look at some of the features offered in the main Toolbar at the top of the screen:

Figure 2.43 – The main Toolbar

There are lots of features available in the main Toolbar. Let's discuss some of the most important ones, such as version control.

Version control

As when coding, it's a good idea to create your project in stages so that you can go back to an earlier stage if you need. It's good practice to save your project often. FL Studio has an option that will do this for you under FILE | Save new version:

Figure 2.44 – Save new version

This will save your file as a new copy of the project. If you even need to go back, you can simply open up the original project.

Revert to last backup

Sometimes, your computer might crash while you are working. In these cases, there is a way to go to...