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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

Creating drum sounds – kicks that really hit

When it comes to creating kick drum sounds, there are two main types of kick sounds that you will create:

  • The first type of kick is what we call a “generic” kick; this is a kick sound that can work with any production style because it simply is a well-rounded and balanced sound that fits with 808 basses, traditional bass guitars, and sub-bass noises.
  • The second type of kick is what we call a “textured” kick. Textured kicks are drum noises that have a bit of attack to them, a specific sound that accompanies the underlying kick sound. Timbaland’s production catalog is full of textured kicks. They sound unique and are extremely creative in sound design nature. However, these need to be used properly to be able to fit within the bass range of certain frequencies. Certain textured kicks won’t gel sonically with certain 808 bass sounds, sub-basses, or bass guitars.

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