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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about recording audio so that you can record your instruments and vocals. We learned about microphones and how to prepare for recording. We learned how to record into FL Studio. We learned about pitch correction and how to pitch-correct using Newtone. We learned how to retime audio samples using Newtime. Finally, we learned a series of tips and best practices to mix your vocals.

Some key points to think about:

  • The order you apply effects can be important, so the plugin effects should complement and build on each other instead of undoing the previous plugin’s work.
  • After adding effects, you should always test turning your plugin effects on and off to check that they actually made your sound better.
  • Once you’ve finished setting up your mixer effects chain, you can save the mixer track by right-clicking on the mixer track and selecting File | Save mixer track state as. Then, you can easily load it in the future...