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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

Using the Channel Rack to create billboard charting drum loops

Let’s first dive into how traditional hip hop drum arrangements work in the Channel Rack. There are a few essential stages to creating a hip hop drum arrangement in FL Studio, which are as follows:

  1. Create a fresh pattern in the step sequencer or a fresh MIDI clip on the Piano Roll to get things going. This will be the basis for your drum arrangement.
  2. Add the various drum sounds that you’ll be using in your arrangement after that. To accomplish this, choose them from the Channel Rack or browser, drag them into the pattern or clip, and then drop them into a Channel Rack line. Kick, snare, hi-hat, and clap drums are typical hip hop drum sounds.
  3. Start composing your drum beats using the Piano Roll or step sequencer. It’s typical for hip hop rhythms to employ a constant kick and snare pattern while changing the hi-hat and clapping rhythms to increase variety and interest. The tools and plugins...