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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

Retiming audio samples with Newtime

When recording live audio or importing samples, sooner or later you’ll find audio clip timings don’t match up with the rest of your song. Audio mistimings can be corrected using the FL Studio plugin Newtime.

Newtime allows you to map out the key moments in your audio sample and adjust the timing to better fit your song. Let’s retime audio samples using Newtime:

  1. You’ll first need an audio sample clip to retime. Load up an audio clip sample in the playlist. Any will do. In my example, we’ll use a drum sample that comes with FL Studio, but you can use any sample that you like. If this is your first time using Newtime I recommend finding a drum loop sample as this is the easiest way to see clear results.

Figure 8.15 – Drum sample

  1. In the playlist, left-click on the top left corner of the sample to see the options and choose the Time-warp sample option:

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