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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

Editing automation clips

Once you’ve created an automation clip, you can edit the automation. Let’s see this through an example:

  1. Right-click on any automatable control and create an automation clip in the playlist.
  2. Double-left-click on the automation clip name in the playlist. The automation editor will appear as shown in the following screenshot.

Figure 4.17 – Automation editor

In the preceding screenshot, we made a bunch of random selections for the automation. The exact automation isn’t important; the goal is just to show you how to navigate to the automation editor.

In the automation editor, you can refine automation curves. You can play your clip in the playlist simultaneously to see how your song is affected by the automation.

In the automation editor, you’ll see a grid of points indicating automation. Higher points mean an increase in control value and lower points mean a lower value. The value will...