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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

Creating granular synthesis with Fruity Granulizer

Fruity Granulizer is an effect using granular synthesis. Granular synthesis splits source audio into small pieces called grains. These grains are then looped and played back based on the plugin settings.

Fruity Granulizer is a great effect for bass sound design and for transitions such as risers and falling sound effects.

Let’s get started using Fruity Granulizer:

  1. Create a new pattern and add it to the playlist.
  2. In the channel rack, insert the new instrument, Fruity Granulizer:

Figure 11.11 – Fruity Granulizer

  1. Load a new sample into Fruity Granulizer such as by clicking in Click to Load Sample and navigating to an audio sample you want to use. Alternatively, you can drag and drop a sample from the browser into Fruity Granulizer:

Figure 11.12 – Fruity Granulizer loaded with sample

  1. We need MIDI data to tell Fruity Granulizer when to play...