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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 chorus effects

In Chapter 5, Sound Design and Audio Envelopes, we discussed phase cancellation and interference. This is where multiple waveforms interact with each other and cause the sound to become louder or quieter. In-phase audio makes the sound louder while being out of phase causes the sound to become quieter. These are the two extreme phase possibilities, but there is a range between them. Plugins that play with the sound phase include chorus plugins, flangers, and phasers. We will discuss each of these over the next few pages.

Chorus plugins play with the signal phase. A chorus plugin creates duplicates of the audio signal, using the same phase position, amplitude, and frequency. The copied signal is delayed to create a difference in phase. With this delayed sound, we can adjust a bunch of properties such as the timing or pitch. There is a control included called the Low-Frequency Oscillator (LFO), which controls the delay timing.

Using Fruity Chorus

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