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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

Introducing the FL Studio workbench

In the pages ahead, we’ll explore the browser, channel rack, and playlist and highlight the most useful features. If you are new to FL Studio, this may seem like a lot of information to process all at once. Don’t fear, you don’t need to know everything about these tools. You can just have a quick skim through this chapter to get the basics. Once you’ve got a few songs under your belt, you can come back and examine these tools in greater detail.

Let’s start off with some theme customization to make FL Studio visually interesting for you and then we’ll dive into the core controls. Let’s select a color theme for your FL Studio interface. The theme will color the tools you use in FL Studio. It won’t change how the tools work, but it can make your FL Studio experience more enjoyable. Sometimes, you need inspiration, and a different color theme may be all you need to get your creative juices...