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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

Arrangement transitions

Knowing how to build the tension using transitionary frameworks creates exciting moments in each song section. It is a massive skill hack you need to start practicing and is something that all successful producers do. This will bring your productions to the next level when you are arranging your productions. The excitement and impact of a song can be greatly increased by incorporating transition effects into the song arrangement. Whether moving from the verse to the chorus or from one chorus to the next, a transition effect is employed to make the transition seamless. You can create a smooth transition between the song’s various sections by including transition effects, which will make the song sound more cohesive and interesting. Transitional effects can take the form of musical elements such as drum fills or breakdowns, or they can take the form of sound effects such as risers, impacts, or swells. These effects build tension and suspense, which can...