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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

Intermediate Mixing Topics and Sound Design Plugin Effects

In this chapter, we’ll cover some of FL Studio’s latest plugins. For the ambitious and those eager to explore cutting-edge sound design, FL Studio offers an abundance of tools. This chapter explores advanced FL Studio plugin effects for those who feel they already have a decent grasp of FL Studio and want fine control over their sound design. These are advanced topics, so don’t feel bad if it goes a little over your head the first time you read about these topics.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create real-time pitch-shifting effects using Pitch Shifter. You’ll learn how to create metallic sounds and shift frequencies with Frequency Shifter. You’ll learn how to stretch audio waves to create complex audio effects with Fruity Granulizer. You’ll learn how to create delay effects with Multiband Delay. Finally, you’ll learn how to use Frequency Splitter, a tool designed...