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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

Crafting signature hi-hat sounds

Hi-hats for the most part are simple – it’s only when you want to try to recreate a live-sounding hat or perhaps add a level thickening to it where it makes sense to get creative with layering these types of sounds.

But because we are creating a signature sound, let’s walk through how to create a custom hi-hat sound.

Let’s look through the Browser and find a hi-hat we think has potential. To create a signature sound for a hi-hat, I want to let you know that there are a few types of hi-hats we will create, which are commonly used in our sound design. These are as follows:

  • Flat hi-hats, what we use as the main driving hat in our rhythmic patterns
  • Open hi-hats, which we use to create lift and add transitional ear candy in a hi-hat rhythmic pattern and percussion, which compliments and adds texture to our hi-hat patterns

There are various types of hi-hat sounds in the marketplace, everything ranging from...