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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

Taking action – put yourself in the right place at the 
right time

Placing records is tricky in the beginning because you haven’t done it yet—there is a huge learning curve, from finding artists or companies to solicit, to negotiating and signing agreements you have never seen before, to registering and collecting royalties, to getting paid. If you don’t have any connections to the artists, the media company, an artist’s team, a label, or someone in the inner circle of the business, it is extremely hard to get people to pay attention. All of these stakeholders are constantly being solicited for beats, and they tend to only listen to beats that come through very specific channels. This doesn’t mean you can’t get a placement if you don’t know anyone in the business; it just means it’s a longer game that takes patience. Now, here is the thing—you hear this from all of the gurus—you need to be at the right...