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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

A Billboard-Ready Production Arrangement

In this chapter, we’ll talk about one of the most important parts of creating productions that can resonate with fans globally – the arrangement. You can think of an arrangement as the blueprint of how your track plays out while the singer or artist sings or raps over it. A solid arrangement will keep the listener focused, create emotion, take it away, and keep the listener in suspense. When we talk about arranging, we aren’t just talking about using a verse and chorus framework; we are talking about how we can leverage formulaic approaches to create tension and emotion within a simple chord or melody loop that sounds interesting and exciting. A good arrangement gives the listener a ride, a ride into a fantastical world of sound and emotion. So, arranging your tracks to create a compelling composition is one of the most crucial tasks you will perform as a music producer.

The Playlist tool in FL Studio is a crucial tool...