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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

Creating the billboard charting arrangement templates

We’ll begin by structuring an A-B framework in FL Studio. Once we have this basic framework template created, we can dive into what makes arrangements stand out by using my Power User strategies:

  1. Create a new project in FL Studio.
  2. Begin by coming up with unique patterns for the various verse, chorus, and bridge sections of the song. We will create the melody, chord, and drum patterns using Step Sequencer or the Piano Roll.
  3. When you have finished creating all of your patterns, open the Playlist window. You can arrange the various patterns there to produce the song’s overall structure.

For the sake of this example, we won’t dive into creating a mind-blowing composition, just something we can use to fill each step of building the A-B pop framework:

  1. So, let’s start by creating the intro of the song. I have chosen the FL Keys VST to make the melody shown in Figure 6.9:
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