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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

Multiband processing with Frequency Splitter

Frequency Splitter is an effect plugin that separates audio into low, mid, and high-frequency bands. Once the frequency bands are split, you can route them to different mixer tracks for additional processing.

Splitting audio into frequency bands has a wide range of applications. Some use cases are as follows:

  • In its simplest form, it can be used to perform simple EQ.
  • It allows you to perform bandpass sweeping effects.
  • It allows you to isolate frequency bands to duck when sidechaining instead of sidechaining the entire sound. For example, reducing the bass frequencies when percussion comes in while still retaining the upper frequencies. More generally, you can apply different effects to low, mid, or high frequencies of a sound.
  • It can be used to duck instrument frequencies when a vocal comes so that it can maintain focus on the vocal.
  • In mastering, it can be used to isolate frequencies so that you can...