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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

Using LuxeVerb

Luxeverb is a cutting-edge reverb plugin that comes with FL Studio All Plugins Edition. Luxeverb is a reverb plugin with tons of features and controls. One distinguishing feature that sets Luxeverb apart from most reverb plugins on the market is that you have the ability to adjust the pitch and dynamics of the reverb. Let’s take a look at the features offered by Luxeverb:

Figure 7.5 – Luxeverb

As always, on the top right, you’ll find a list of presets to explore.

By default, Luxeverb is split into a top blue reverb control section and a bottom envelope control black section. You can choose to hide the envelope section by clicking the bottom edges and dragging upward.

Let’s take a look at each section, starting with the INPUT and REVERB sections.

Figure 7.6 – Luxeverb INPUT and REVERB panels

Here’s a description of the controls.

The INPUT panel:

  • WET GAIN: Controls how much input...