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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

Using the Piano Roll

The Piano Roll is FL Studio’s internal MIDI keyboard that is used to create chord and melody structures and scoring. The Piano Roll has some incredible features that allow you to use FL Studio’s intuitive software to draw, click, and paint notes into the scoring system. It also contains features that allow you to use algorithmic tools to create base note sequences and leads, as well as edit note lengths in bar sequences.

Now, it’s time to show you how using the Piano Roll with certain frameworks can take you from FL Studio to the Billboard charts. When it comes to creating records, the Piano Roll is where you will create all of your melodies and chord progressions within FL Studio. I will explain how to use Piano Roll with a power user’s mindset to create hypnotic and attention-grabbing melodies and chord progressions. For now, I will walk you through the basics of what it is and how you can get the most out of it as a tool for creative...