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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 Vintage Chorus

FL Studio Signature Edition has a chorus effect plugin called Vintage Chorus. Let’s discuss the Vintage Chorus effect plugin.

Vintage Chorus is a chorus effect plugin that emulates the Roland Juno 6’s Bucket Brigade Delay (BBD) Chorus effect:

  1. Load up a sample or an instrument with notes and route it to a new mixer track.
  2. Add the Vintage Chorus effect. When you play your instrument, you will be able to hear a chorus effect:

Figure 7.13 – Vintage Chorus

As usual, there is a list of presets in the top-right corner of the plugin to get you started.

Let’s take a look at the components of Vintage Chorus.

Figure 7.14 – MODE

In Vintage Chorus, there are three modes to choose from. These modes are various chorus effects that can be applied. By default, MODE 1 is selected.

MODE 1 creates the Juno 6 Chorus I effect. MODE 2 creates the Juno 6 Chorus II effect. You can apply both...