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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20

By : Joshua Au-Yeung
Book Image

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

Understanding stereo imaging with vectorscopes

Stereo imaging is another tool that is sometimes used while mastering. A vectorscope can help you to identify where your sounds are positioned in the stereo field (how much mono or stereo).

Stereo imaging is related to stereo width. Stereo imaging is about identifying how your sound is heard out of the left and right channels. This helps you to troubleshoot any issues that may occur, such as sounds unintentionally focused on one side or the other. If there is an issue, you'll then go back to the Mixer and investigate what is causing the audio imbalance.

If your goal is to create more stereo width, the vectorscope will allow you to visually see how much stereo width has been created. You'll be able to see how much difference there is between the audio on each side.

The following is an example of FL Studio's Wave Candy plugin using the built-in Vectorscope preset. It shows the stereo image of your audio:

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