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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)
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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

Producer tags and sonic branding

It only takes 0.146 seconds to evoke a reaction or response in a listener. We automatically experience an emotional response whenever we hear certain sounds or tones.

When it comes to creating a signature sound, everything we have discussed encompasses your ability to create unique-sounding drums, hi-hats, synths, and arrangement styles. How you create formulas in your own production style and ultimately compose your own productions in FL Studio will define your signature sound in the marketplace. With the nuances associated with productions, this will be noticed typically by super-fans and other creatives who have a musician’s ear, but general listeners won’t pick up on these nuances. So, how do you let people know you produce a record without telling every single person you come across that you did? This is where a producer tag comes into play. In certain genres, such as rap, hip-hop, and sometimes pop music, producers have what we...