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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

Send any instrument to Patcher

There’s a very easy way to send any VST plugin into Patcher using the Patcherize option. This will allow you to easily start creating chains of instruments and effects:

  1. In order to send an instrument into patcher, first load up an instrument in the channel rack.
  2. Right-click on the channel rack instrument and select the Patcherize option as shown in the following screenshot.

Figure 10.25 – Patcherize

Patcher will open up with the instrument loaded, ready to go.

Figure 10.26 – Instrument sent to Patcher

You can even send non-native plugins into patcher using the Patcherize option. In the following screenshot, I show an example where I sent a non-native FL Studio VST synthesizer plugin I purchased called SynthMaster into Patcher.

Figure 10.27 – SynthMaster

We’ve learned how to use load instruments in Patcher; next let’s check out Patcher’s presets...