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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

Exploring the Browser, Playlist, and Channel Rack

It would take a very long time to create a song if you had to learn how to play every single instrument in a band from scratch. Thankfully, FL Studio has some tools you can reuse in every song you make regardless what genre or style.

In the following pages, we will learn about the main features of the browser, channel rack, and playlist. These, along with the piano roll and mixer, are the core tools of FL Studio. These are the fundamental key components of using FL Studio and you will use them continually from now onward in your journey through FL Studio. We will be reusing these tools throughout the book. Learning about these tools is a continual learning process and you’ll find yourself discovering new features and techniques years into using FL Studio.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing the FL Studio workbench
  • Getting the most out of your samples
  • Using the browser...