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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
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Part 3: Best Techniques and How to Appear on the Billboard Charts

Creating Your Signature Sound

Now its time to start building a library of signature sounds that will represent you and your productions in the marketplace. And yes, you can buy or license sounds from third-party websites and producers that are incredible and have led to multi-platinum hits, but wouldn’t it be amazing to have a one-of-one signature sound? That’s what we are going to do here. In fact, I’m going to show you how to do this by exclusively only using FL Studio’s stock sounds (sounds crazy, I know!) but the reality is, all of those amazing sounds you hear on third-party websites are just a combination of stock sounds and custom layers created by other producers. This in essence is called “sound design."

Leveraging the art of creating sound design will impart upon you a few different forms of skill sets, not limited to just banging drum sounds, unique synth patches, or arrangement tweaks. Learning how to create sound design with bare...