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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 Phaser

FL Studio Signature Edition comes with a phaser plugin called Vintage Phaser. It’s modeled after the Electro-Harmonix Small Stone Phase Shifter guitar pedal.

Let’s explore Vintage Phaser and add a phaser effect to an instrument:

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

Figure 7.20 – Vintage Phaser

The following is a description of the controls. The layout is very similar to the layout of the FL Studio plugin Vintage Chorus.

The PHASING panel lets you change the modulation range.

Figure 7.21 – Vintage Phaser PHASING panel

  • MIN: Lets you set the minimum frequency for the oscillator.
  • MAX: Lets you set the maximum frequency for the oscillator.
  • HQ: Allows oversampling. Oversampling is when the plugin converts the audio into a...