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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

Workflow optimization hacks

There are a number of tactics you can use to increase workflow in FL Studio. This book gives you the frameworks you need to familiarize yourself with the software’s features and operations; as we have established, perfect practice makes practice perfect! Once we have a grasp of how to use all of FL Studio’s tools, we can use these quick hacks and tips, such as picking up keyboard shortcuts, using hotkeys, and adjusting the user interface to your preferences to maximize your workflow. Secondly, think about how you can best organize your computer when you develop your own habits and production approaches.

Let’s talk about some of the keyboard shortcuts that will help you increase workflow overall. These are as follows:

  • F1: Help
  • F2: Rename a selected channel or mixer track
  • F3: Open the mixer
  • F4: Open a playlist
  • F5: Open the step sequencer
  • F6: Open the Piano Roll
  • F7: Open the browser
  • F8: Open the plugin...