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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

Music Production Fundamentals

In this section, you will learn how to mix your music like a pro. You’ll learn the foundations of sound: the physics principles behind how sound works and its practical applications. You’ll explore a wide range of mixing techniques to improve your music including compression, equalization, and stereo width. You’ll learn sound design and create your own instruments and effects. You’ll learn how to record vocals, process them, create vocal chops, and use vocoders.

We will cover the following chapters in this section:

  • Chapter 5, Sound Design and Audio Envelopes
  • Chapter 6, Compression, Sidechaining, Limiting, and Equalization
  • Chapter 7, Stereo Width (Panning, Reverb, Delay, Chorus, and Flangers) and Distortion
  • Chapter 8, Recording Live Audio and Vocal Processing
  • Chapter 9, Vocoders and Vocal Chops
  • Chapter 10, Creating Your Own Instruments and Effects
  • Chapter 11, Intermediate Mixing...