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A Power User's Guide to FL Studio 21

By : Chris Noxx
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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

Summary

For modern music production to sound polished and professional, mastering the use of mixing plugins is essential to getting your productions to a point of marketability. A producer can sculpt and shape individual tracks to fit together seamlessly in the mix by using EQ, compression, reverb, delay, panning, and level balancing plugins wisely, resulting in a coherent and dynamic overall sound. Each plugin has its own distinct features and functions, but they can all be creatively combined to produce the desired sonic result. You can develop the technical abilities and intuition necessary to use these tools to their full potential through practice, experimentation, and attentive listening, producing chart-topping mixes that stand out in the current competitive music industry. But as I said in this chapter, being a master at mixing is a whole different set of skills from being a master at producing. It’s possible to be great at both, but let engineers who spend their entire...