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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20

By : Joshua Au-Yeung
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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20

By: Joshua Au-Yeung

Overview of this book

FL Studio is a cutting-edge software music production environment and an extremely powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating music. This book will give you everything you need to produce music with FL Studio like a professional. You'll begin by exploring FL Studio 20's vast array of tools, and discover best practices, tips, and tricks for creating music. You'll then learn how to set up your studio environment, create a beat, compose a melody and chord progression, mix sounds with effects, and export songs. As you advance, you'll find out how to use tools such as the Piano roll, mixer console, audio envelopes, types of compression, equalizers, vocoders, vocal chops, and tools for increasing stereo width. The book introduces you to mixing best practices, and shows you how to master your songs. Along the way, you'll explore glitch effects and create your own instruments and custom-designed effect chains. You'll also cover ZGameEditor Visualizer, a tool used for creating reactive visuals for your songs. Finally, you'll learn how to register, sell, and promote your music. By the end of this FL Studio book, you'll be able to utilize cutting-edge tools to fuel your creative ideas, mix music effectively, and publish your songs.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1:Getting Up and Running with FL Studio
6
Section 2:Music Production Fundamentals
12
Section 3:Postproduction and Publishing Your Music

Creating effects with Patcher

Patcher is an FL Studio plugin that allows you to chain instruments and effects together. Patcher allows you to create your own custom instrument and effect chains, link everything together, and save them for reuse in other projects. Patcher is related to modular synthesis. Modular synthesis is where you have individual instrument and effect components and you link them together to connect everything.

Patcher can be loaded into the Channel Rack or onto a Mixer channel. If loaded into the Channel Rack, you can load instrument plugins and Patcher will play the instrument using MIDI notes sent to it from the Piano roll. If Patcher is loaded in the Mixer, it's intended to be used as an effect rather than to play MIDI notes. In the following examples, we assume that you want to use Patcher as an instrument and accept MIDI notes, and have loaded Patcher into the Channel Rack:

  1. In the Channel Rack, load up Patcher. Open it up and you'll see...