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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 stamp tool to create chords

The stamp tool in FL Studio is a feature of the Piano Roll that allows you to quickly paste certain note combinations within a pattern. This allows you to copy and then paste the chord combination to use in the next note range easily as a workflow hack. It is represented by a small icon of a stamp or a rubber stamp, and it is located in the top-left corner of the Piano Roll window in the Piano Roll taskbar. This tool allows you to choose certain chord combinations and place them within the Piano Roll scoring system. This is a useful tool to start creating progressions without knowing about music theory.

To use the stamp tool, you first select the notes that you want to copy. Then, click on the stamp tool icon and drag your selection to where you want to paste it. The stamp tool will create a new set of notes at the location where you dragged and dropped the first note, with the same pitch, length, and other properties as the original notes....