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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

Exporting sheet music

Traditionally, when learning to play music, musicians learn to read sheet music. Sheet music allows musicians to transfer a musical idea to another musician so that they understand how to play the song. To read sheet music, they’d need to learn a large vocabulary of symbols and syntax so that they could understand what the other musician is saying.

If you want to export your music in the form of sheet music so that a live musician can play it, select the FILE | Export as score sheet option. This will provide you with controls over the sheet music, such as the time signature and scale, as seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.31 – Export as score sheet

After clicking Start, a PDF will be created with the sheet music, such as the one in the following screenshot:

Figure 3.32 – Sheet music

For a trained musician, this sheet music may not provide enough syntax notation. If this is the case, you’ll need...