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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

Basics of music composition theory

Let’s review some fundamentals before moving on to how to develop compositions and melodies from a framework that records on Billboard charts use. You will be familiar with them if you are studying music theory, but if you’re like me, you didn’t discover these fundamentals until much later in your professional life. Up until I started learning music theory, I used FL Studio to create the majority of my work by ear. The classically trained pianists I’ve collaborated with in the studio have told me that although my approach to music is very unconventional, it still functions just as well as the classic approach. At the end of the day, good-sounding music is the goal.

Fundamentals of music theory

The study of music theory encompasses the language and notations used to create and communicate music, as well as the principles and practices of music. The fundamentals of music theory are as follows:

  • Pitch: A sound...