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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

Routing to the Mixer and Applying Automation

Once you’ve arranged melodies for your song, you can begin mixing. Mixing is the process where you combine instrument sounds and strategically blend them together. You need to be familiar with how audio is passed around the mixer (known as routing) in order to mix music efficiently, and in this chapter, we will learn how.

In order to use effects, we need to understand how instruments’ signals get passed around. This chapter is intended to show you how to configure your setup for any mixing need. The goal of this chapter is to give you a general foundation understanding of the mixer. In future chapters, we will apply our understanding of the mixer by adding effects to our sounds, such as compression and stereo-width effects.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • What is mixing?
  • Routing audio to the mixer
  • Navigating the mixer console
  • Applying automation
  • Freezing...