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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

Exercise

Creating a Custom Workflow Template in FL Studio: In this exercise, you will create your own custom workflow template in FL Studio using Project bones and the Piano Roll. This exercise will guide you through the process of creating and exporting a custom template that you can use in your future projects. We will follow these steps:

  1. Setting up Project bones: First, open FL Studio and create a new project. Set up your mixer and arrange your patterns as you would for a typical project. Next, select the elements of your project that you would like to save as a Project bone. This could include mixer track settings, pattern settings, and plugin settings. For this exercise, let’s focus on the Piano Roll.
  2. Creating a custom workflow template in the Piano Roll: Once you have selected the elements you want to save, go to the Piano Roll for one of your patterns. Here, you can create a custom workflow template by setting up your preferred grid, snap settings, note lengths...