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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

Collaborating with others to promote yourself

Whatever social media you pick, if you want to grow an audience base, it’s a lot faster if you collaborate with other content creators.

For example, in many music videos, you’ll see videos featuring other singers. Why feature another singer? Why not just do everything solo? By featuring a collaborator, you gain the opportunity to introduce your fans to your collaborator and your collaborator’s fans to you. It’s a win-win situation, and both of your fan bases increase.

Collaboration is extremely important in building a career in the music and film industries. It presents some golden opportunities, but you need to have the right mindset to see them. Let’s take a moment to see how to get the most out of collaborating.

Lots of singers and instrumentalists are talented. There’s an endless supply of talent out there. You see countless musicians do very well in TV show competitions, but you...