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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

Using pitch correction with Newtone

When you record, a singer’s melody will sometimes drift out of pitch from the song scale. Usually, this is undesired and makes the vocal sound bad. Pitch correction is a tool used to bring note pitches back into the song scale. There are several pitch correction tools on the market. Some well-made pitch correction plugins include Antares’s Autotune and Celemony’s Melodyne. The most widely known and used pitch correction tool in the industry is Antares’s Autotune. It is a little pricey for beginners, though. If you’re interested in purchasing Autotune, visit www.antarestech.com.

FL Studio has a pitch correction plugin called Newtone that comes with the FL Studio Signature Edition. If you are new to processing vocals and don’t have access to Autotune or Melodyne, Newtone is a beginner-friendly option to give you an introduction. It offers the ability to adjust pitch in a timeline graphical mode as well...