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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)
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Part 1:Understanding the Basics
3
Part 2:Creating Music with FL Studio
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Part 3: Best Techniques and How to Appear on the Billboard Charts

A catalog is a sellable asset

Ultimately, you are creating a catalog of works that you will place with artists and multimedia that will eventually be an asset. Let’s walk through this.

First, let’s discuss what an asset is. An asset, broadly speaking, is anything that has value and that a person, business, or organization may own. Physical assets, such as real estate, machinery, and supplies, as well as financial assets, such as stocks, bonds, and bank accounts, are just a few examples of the many different types of assets that can exist. Assets can also include intellectual property, such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights. In the case of the music industry, songs and beats are assets.

At its core, a catalog is a collection of works that a producer has created over a period of time. This production catalog can be sold, licensed, or exploited in order to generate income from the rights to those works. However, the value of a catalog is not necessarily high until...