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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

Types of deals

A publishing deal is an agreement between a music producer and a publishing company where the publisher will promote, license, and collect royalties for the music producer’s compositions. There are several types of publishing deals we will explore. Most notably, in modern times, are the co-publishing deal, the administration deal, being self-published, and the traditional publishing deal. Each of these scenarios has benefits and downsides attached to it. The upside and the downside will be specific to the producer and company practices.

Publishing deals will typically manifest in your life when you’re landing placements that have charted, or you have several single releases with signed artists. Record labels all have publishing arms that work in conjunction with their label partners, and it’s in the best interests of the record company to have its hand in each side of the copyright.

These can be advantageous for you as a composer or producer...