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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

Crafting your signature sound with FL Studio’s stock sounds

FL Studio is a powerful digital audio workstation that includes a sizable sound and sample library. Using FL Studio standard sounds can be a useful approach to creating a distinctive and recognized sound, even though many producers might disregard them in favor of third-party plugins and sample packs. The stock sounds that come with FL Studio are extensive and contain anything from vintage analog synths to contemporary electronic drums and percussion. By opening the Browser tab on the left side of the screen or the Browser window in the Channel Rack, you can access the incredible stock sounds that FL Studio has to offer. The Browser tab, which can be customized to incorporate your own unique sounds and folders, is a fantastic tool for searching for and organizing sounds.

Layering FL Studio stock sounds with additional sounds or samples to get a distinctive hybrid sound is one way to use them. For instance, to produce...