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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 synths and custom sounds

Before we dive fully into creating custom synth and patches, I want to tell you there are a few different ways to approach this. In my career, I have created both patches and layered synth sounds when experimenting with instrumentation development and signature sound frameworks, and recommend doing sound design via synths and melody sounds on a track-by-track basis. This may sound counterintuitive, but I’m going to explain why.

You certainly can spend hours, days, weeks, or longer creating custom synth patches by tweaking presets inside of FL Studio’s VST plugins if you desire – but remember, I’m giving you tips for being a Power User. In Chapter 1, we talked about having goals and taking action – RUTHLESS ACTION! Ruthless action is heading toward your high-level goals, so never confuse activity with accomplishment. Accomplishment is achieving your goals.

This means your end goal is to pump out hits, not overcomplicate...