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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

Composing in FL Studio – the basics

FL Studio is a powerful and effective digital audio workstation (DAW) that enables you to write music in a variety of genres and create melodies. To approach melody and composition theory in FL Studio, follow the guidelines in this section.

Conventional wisdom will tell you to learn the fundamentals of melody. This is definitely something you should invest time and energy into throughout your career. However, FL Studio’s tools allow you to hack the music composing system by giving you a clear set of tools that can be used in simplicity to create melody and chord progressions by ear, without knowing the exact names of the chords and keys from the outset.

Rather, while you build your own knowledge bank of the music theory, understand that melody is the central element of musical composition and is composed of a series of notes played in a specific order. When you begin to understand the fundamentals of music theory, such as scales...