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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 21 - Second Edition

By : Joshua Au-Yeung
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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 21 - Second Edition

By: Joshua Au-Yeung

Overview of this book

The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 21 is the essential handbook for any aspiring or professional music producer looking to take their craft to the next level. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to make the most of FL Studio 21's powerful tools and features. You will learn the secrets to creating professional-sounding music, from creating chord progressions to tailoring your sounds to perfection with compression, equalization, and stereo width effects. You'll begin by getting up-and-running with FL Studio 21, creating a beat, and composing a melody. Once you're familiar with the piano roll and mixer console you'll learn how to use plugins to create your own instruments, explore audio width effects, and engage in sound design. You'll get insights into mixing and mastering, as well as promoting and selling your music. This new edition covers some of the most popular features and plugins in FL Studio 21, including FLEX, Luxeverb, Vintage Chorus, Vintage Phaser, Distructor, Fruity Newtime, VFX Sequencer, Pitch Shifter, Frequency Shifter, Fruity Granulizer, Multiband Delay, and Frequency Splitter.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section I: Getting Up and Running with FL Studio
6
Section II: Music Production Fundamentals
14
Section III: Postproduction and Publishing Your Music
18
Other Books You May Enjoy
19
Index

Recording Live Audio and Vocal Processing

Vocals are the most recognizable part of a song and can single-handedly determine whether people love it or hate it. You’ll want to devote careful attention to making sure you get the best-sounding vocals possible. In this chapter, we will learn how to record live audio and process vocals.

In the pages ahead, we’ll discuss the setup and preparation you need to take care of before recording. We’ll look at how to record in FL Studio, learn how to mix your vocals, and finally, look at the best practices to apply effects.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding microphones
  • Setting up your recording environment
  • Recording audio in FL Studio
  • Using pitch correction with Newtone
  • Retiming audio samples with Newtime
  • Vocals effect processing best practices