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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20

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

The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20

4.6 (37)
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)
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Section 1:Getting Up and Running with FL Studio
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Section 2:Music Production Fundamentals
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Section 3:Postproduction and Publishing Your Music

Navigating the Mixer console

I like to think of the Mixer console in terms of three distinct components:

  • The master channel: A channel that all other channels eventually route to. Audio exiting this channel is what gets exported as the final song.
  • The insert mixer tracks: Where audio is routed to from each instrument.
  • The effects rack: Lists effects that are applied to each mixer insert channel.

In the following screenshot, we can see the Mixer and its components:

Figure 4.8 – Mixer

Audio signals flow from the Channel Rack into the insert mixer tracks. For each insert mixer track, effects from the effects rack are applied. Audio then leaves the insert mixer track and is either sent to another insert mixer track or to the master channel.

Note

The words track and channel can be used interchangeably.

Understanding the insert mixer track

It's called an insert mixer track because in the old days, these used to be individual...

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