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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

Routing audio to the mixer

Before we can mix our music, we first need to route audio to the mixer. The following is a screenshot showing the FL Keys and BooBass instruments in our channel rack, which we are going to route to the mixer:

Figure 4.1 – Channel rack and mixer

In the preceding screenshot, we can see four samples and two instruments in the channel rack. Our mixer has no information mentioning instruments or samples yet. Currently, all sounds are being routed directly to the master channel. When we’re done routing, all instruments and samples in the channel rack will have their own assigned channel and will visually show up in the mixer.

There are two ways to route an instrument in FL Studio to the mixer. The first way is using the channel rack, and the second is by using the individual instrument itself.

Let’s look at the channel rack method first. This is the shortcut way:

  1. In the channel rack, select all instruments by...