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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

Taking the creation of drum loops to another level

Let’s discuss how we can start using the Channel Rack to take your drum programming theory to the next level using foundational principles you can build from.

Two potent FL Studio tools enable thorough and accurate drum programming:

  • Step Sequencer: Simple beats can be easily programmed using the step sequencer’s grid-based interface
  • Piano Roll: The Piano Roll supports more intricate and nuanced programming

Various built-in drum sounds and samples are available in FL Studio, as well as the option to import your own samples from third-party sources or your own signature sound kit. Creating drum beats and patterns in FL Studio requires utilizing the step sequencer or Piano Roll.

Drum beats may be programmed using the step sequencer’s grid-based interface by placing individual steps, or strikes, on the grid. The columns indicate the various beat steps, while each row represents a distinct drum...