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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 21 - Second Edition

By : Joshua Au-Yeung
Book Image

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 main header toolbar features

Now that we understand some of the main workbench tools, let’s take a look at some of the features offered in the main toolbar at the top of the screen:

Figure 2.45 – The main toolbar

There are lots of features available in the main toolbar. Let’s discuss some of the most important ones, such as version control.

Version control

As when coding, it’s a good idea to create your project in stages so that you can go back to an earlier stage if you need. It’s good practice to save your project often. FL Studio has an option that will do this for you under FILE | Save new version:

Figure 2.46 – Save new version

This will save your file as a new copy of the project. If you even need to go back, you can simply open up the original project.

Revert to last backup

Sometimes, your computer might crash while you are working. In these cases, there is a way to go to the last...