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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 Pitch Shifter

Pitch Shifter is a pitch-shifting effect. It contains two pitch shift algorithms, one for monophonic sounds such as vocals, and one for polyphonic sounds. It can be used for pitch correction and, in my opinion, creates a more natural-sounding result than the FL Studio plugin Newtone, which was discussed in Chapter 8.

Let’s get started using Pitch Shifter:

  1. Load up an audio sample in the playlist and route it to the mixer.
  2. Apply the Pitch Shifter effect to the mixer channel and play your sound. You’ll see Pitch Shifter load up, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.1 – Pitch Shifter

On the far-left side, you’ll see the tabs Music and Voice. Voice is for the monophonic pitch-shifting algorithm (single note at a time). You’ll usually want this if you’re applying pitch-shifting effects for vocals. If you have a polyphonic sound (more than one note at a time), then you’ll...