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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 – snares that pop

Creating a custom snare follows the exact same framework as creating and layering kick sounds. The only difference is we are going to only use other snare-like sounds instead of including kick sounds. To make a wide range of custom snares, we can get creative by blending and layering certain FL Studio stock snares with claps, percussion sounds, and hi-hats. The general snare sound design theory follows a framework that uses snares layered with claps, snaps, and percussion sounds to add texture to the main sound.

From a pop culture standpoint, at the time of writing this book, common snare sounds have evolved in the 2020s to mainly use short or small-sounding snares. This includes snare sounds such as claps with little to no tail, rim shots, small snares with little to no reverb, and so on. The 90s used big snare sounds that were mainly sampled from 60s and 70s records, whereas the 2000s used a lot of clap sounds from hardware and keyboards...