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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 an arrangement style

When it comes to arrangement style, we will discuss how to actually do this in FL Studio in Chapter 6, but in this chapter, I will discuss why a producer’s approach to arranging records ultimately adds to their own signature sound.

Your arrangement style or formula as a music producer can be extremely important in developing a distinctive sound that is exclusively recognizable as being your own. When it comes to sonic branding, this is especially crucial because it enables listeners to instantly recognize the producer’s work and associate it with a specific sound or approach. The use of particular chord progressions, the placement of particular instruments or components in the mix, or the use of particular effects or processing methods can all be examples of a producer’s arrangement style.

These components eventually start to blend together to form the producer’s sound, giving them a unique sonic identity that distinguishes...