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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

Using the browser

The browser organizes your samples and instruments and provides convenient access to easily insert and swap them in and out of your project. Using the browser, you can easily swap out instruments and samples, add MIDI notes to instruments, load presets, and add effects. It’s an excellent way to explore the different sounds available to you. Simply by swapping items with the browser, you can stumble across new sounds you wouldn’t expect.

In this chapter, we’ll keep things simple and focus just on how to use the browser to swap samples. But you can use the same technique to swap elements in the browser using a similar approach.

Let’s explore the browser features:

  1. Open the browser by selecting the browser icon:

    Figure 2.8 – Browser button

    The browser window will open up with a list of folder names. You can see a list of various samples, instruments, and effects organized by folder name. You can...