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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 delay effects with Multiband Delay

Multiband Delay is a sound design delay effect. It works by splitting up the audio into 16 frequency bands. For each frequency band, you can adjust the volume, delay, and panning.

The effect is more noticeable on some sounds than others. For example, the effect is noticeable on flat-sounding acoustic instruments. I recommend trying it with flat piano chords to hear the effect clearly.

Let’s get started using Multiband Delay:

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

Figure 11.17 – Multiband Delay

The main idea behind Multiband Delay is that you can set delay, volume, and panning values for individual frequency bands. You can save your band settings in a BANK preset. If desired, you can then...