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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

Two approaches to success

The year is 2006. Myspace is the hottest social media site in the world. I upload beats to my music page and cold DM anyone and everyone who is in the music business to see whether I can get their attention.

I spent hours, days, and months doing this—eventually, I got the attention of a few key people who would end up being catalysts in my career. I was invited to come link up in the studio in LA, so I saved up the few pennies I had at the time by working odd jobs here and there and took a plane from Canada to the US. I stayed at a hostel in West Hollywood called the “Banana Bungalow,” an odd place that was filled with eccentrics and tourists. It was a party spot at night, with a dorm feel during the day—but it was $20 a night and I had a place to sleep while I set up meetings with my Myspace contacts.

One thing led to another, and I spent the next two weeks in different studios all around LA, which gave me the opportunity...