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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

Creating instruments with DirectWave

DirectWave is a native FL Studio plugin sampler. Among other things, it allows you to take any single audio sample and generate additional pitches for the sound. Let’s create instruments with DirectWave:

  1. Add the DirectWave plugin to the channel rack.
  2. Locate an audio sample you’d like to convert into an instrument. This works best with one-shot samples or sampled instruments. You can find a list of samples and instruments intended for use in DirectWave in the browser, under the Packs folder.
  3. Drag the sample or sampled instrument into DirectWave in the channel rack, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.13 – Gross Beat sequencer

If you want to quickly swap out one sample for another, you can do so by clicking on the sample in the browser with the scroll button on your mouse.

Once the sample or sampled instrument has been dragged in, DirectWave will open, as shown in the following...