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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

From the Piano Roll to the Billboard Charts

Congratulations! You have just been introduced to the concepts of how a strong mindset and the art of setting goals will be the driving factor in your ability to master FL Studio and create records that can chart on billboard charts I recommend you read and reread Chapter 1 to fully grasp the high-level concepts covered in it. As I mentioned previously, you can only build as high as your foundation is deep.

Now that we have established that your foundation must be based on a strong mindset, I can now show you how to master FL Studio to realize your goals, dreams, and desires as a creative entrepreneur. After all, being a producer, composer, or record producer is mostly a career choice that falls into the self-employed category. In the old days, record producers tended to get in-house jobs at major record companies, but those days are gone, and nowadays, very few producers get these types of roles with major labels, it will be up to you...