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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 FL Studio to increase your workflow arrangement

When it comes to using FL Studio to arrange your productions, the main tool of focus is the Playlist tool.

The FL Studio’s Playlist tool is where we sketch out our arrangements. The Playlist tool enables you to quickly and effectively arrange your patterns and create dynamic musical structures, thanks to its drag-and-drop interface and simple controls. Getting familiar with the Playlist tool will assist you to better understand the organization of songs and how the various components of a track work together to form a coherent track. The Playlist tool also gives you more creative freedom and enables you to experiment with new concepts and sounds by making it simple to automate your effects and create intricate arrangements. Mastering FL Studio’s Playlist tool is crucial for developing your skill set and music production abilities.

As we have discussed in Chapter 1, the Channel Rack in FL Studio is used to arrange...