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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 music visuals with ZGameEditor Visualizer

When you’re playing a song, you always need a visual. In the long term, you’ll need to invest time and effort into learning about video creation or collaborate with someone who does.

In the short term, when you’re just getting started, there’s a free tool in FL Studio that can easily generate decent animations called ZGameEditor Visualizer. It allows you to sync your music to video and text and add visual effects.

Let’s learn how to create animations with ZGameEditor Visualizer:

  1. Create a new project and import your finished song into the playlist. You’ll want a new FL Studio project as ZGameEditor Visualizer can be quite CPU-intensive.
  2. On the master bus mixer channel, load up the ZGameEditor Visualizer effect plugin:

    Figure 13.3 – ZGameEditor Visualizer

    ZGameEditor Visualizer allows you to load videos, images, and effects in layers. Although you...