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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 Frequency Shifter

Frequency Shifter is a special effect that shifts all frequencies of a sound by the same amount. It operates similarly to the FL Studio plugin Pitch Shifter, except that it doesn’t preserve the pitch key when shifting frequencies; instead Frequency Shifter increments by whatever exact value you tell it to use. It doesn’t force specific pitches the way Pitch Shifter does.

Frequency Shifter effects are much stronger on lower-frequency sounds than on higher-frequency sounds. Why? If you have a starting frequency of 100 Hz and shift by 400 Hz, the result is 500 Hz. If you have a starting frequency of 10,000 Hz and the shift is 400 Hz, the result is 10,400 Hz. The relative change is much smaller for the higher frequencies compared to the relative change for the lower frequencies. This is different from how other Pitch Shifters work as they multiply the frequencies by a value instead of just adding. How does this affect the sound? Audio affected...