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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

Freezing Audio Clips

You can render any audio into an Audio Clip. Rendering to audio is more commonly known as freezing. Rendering to audio or freezing means creating an Audio Clip sample out of any sound that passes through a mixer track. Freezing Audio Clips into samples has several benefits:

  • Like version control, freezing gives you a version of your sound that will not change.
  • Allows you to chop up the audio sample and access audio sample controls. You gain all the benefits of using a sample, such as being able to control sample envelope controls and use samples in other plugins, such as in DirectWave.
  • A sample is less CPU intensive than an instrument with effects. If you notice your computer lagging due to the usage of lots of plugins, you can speed up your computer by freezing CPU-intensive Mixer tracks into audio.

Although you may not use freezing tracks in the beginning, it's something that will become important when you start to have tons of effects...