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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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

administration deal 295

Ambience preset 166

Apologize chords 189, 190

arpeggiated chord progressions 174

arrangement style

creating 124

Arrangement tool 19-21

arrangement transition 223-229

drum patterns drop-ins 234

drum patterns dropouts 234

transitional effects 230-233

asset 280

augmented chords 199-201

automation 90

B

bass instruments 269

Beats Per Minute (BPM) 129, 130, 171

billboard charting arrangement templates

creating 214-220

rap arrangement formula 220-222

sonic signature arrangement 222

billboard charting drum loops

creating, with Channel Rack 129, 130

billboard charting pop chord progression frameworks 181

Apologize chords 189, 190

Don’t Stop Believing chords 184

Let It Be chords 181, 182

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