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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 VFX Sequencer

VFX Sequencer is a powerful MIDI sequencer plugin that runs inside Patcher.

In general, an arpeggiator plays a series of notes whenever it receives a MIDI note. For example, you could play a chord, and the arpeggiator could then cycle between playing notes inside the chord. A sequencer is an advanced arpeggiator giving you lots of control over how the note patterns are created.

VFX Sequencer allows you to generate MIDI notes for any instrument. Let’s explore VFX Sequencer:

  1. Open up an instance of Patcher in the channel rack.
  2. Inside Patcher, right-click and select the option Add plugin:

Figure 10.35 – Add plugin in VFX Sequencer Patcher

  1. Locate VFX Sequencer and select it. You’ll see that VFX Sequencer is added to patcher, as in the following screenshot:

    Figure 10.36 – Patcher added VFX Sequencer

    You’ll notice by default that VFX Sequencer doesn’t output audio...