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A Power User's Guide to FL Studio 21

By : Chris Noxx
Book Image

A Power User's Guide to FL Studio 21

By: Chris Noxx

Overview of this book

A digital audio workstation empowering both aspiring and seasoned producers to create original music compositions, FL Studio has not only advanced the culture of collaboration across several genres but has provided a creative outlet for up-and-coming artists worldwide. Achieving professional production prowess takes practice, market insight, and mentorship. This book explains how the author used FL Studio as a creative palette to build a successful career as a record producer, using specific techniques and workflow processes that only FL Studio can accommodate. You’ll develop a Power User's mindset, create signature sounds using stock FL Studio One Shots, create top-level drum loops, learn about FL Studio's VST’s, and approach arrangements from a practical and pop music perspective. This comprehensive guide covers everything from crafting and adding hypnotic melodies and chords, to mixing and mastering productions, and promoting those records to artists and companies, to take your career to the next level. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create original productions from scratch using FL Studio’s virtual instruments and sound kits, mix and master the finished production, and arrange it using the Billboard-charting formula.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1:Understanding the Basics
3
Part 2:Creating Music with FL Studio
9
Part 3: Best Techniques and How to Appear on the Billboard Charts

Plugins for chart-topping mixing techniques

When it comes to leveraging plugin tools in FL Studio, from my personal experience, the following plugins are ones that you are likely to use on every track:

  • EQ: Fruity Parametric EQ 2
  • Compression: Fruity Compressor
  • Reverb: Fruity Reeverb 2
  • Delay: Fruity Delay 3
  • Panning: Fruity Stereo Shaper

These are at the heart of every track I’ve ever composed in FL Studio. While the other plugins are great tools, they tend to be what real engineers use when mixing the finished product. I want to give you, as a producer, the framework for the plugins you will use in almost every track you produce, while having a base foundation knowledge of the other plugins and what they do in FL Studio.

It is important to note that in the music business, the interaction between a producer and a mixing engineer is essential to the process of making music. The producer is in charge of overseeing the project’s creative direction...