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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

Collaborating with others to promote yourself

Whatever social media you pick, if you want to grow an audience base, it's a lot faster if you collaborate with other content creators.

For example, on many music videos, you'll see videos featuring other singers. Why feature another singer? Why not just do everything solo? By featuring a collaborator, you gain the opportunity to introduce your fans to your collaborator and your collaborator's fans to you. It's a win-win situation and both of your fan bases increase.

Collaboration is extremely important in building a career in the music and film industries. It presents some golden opportunities, but you need to have the right mindset to see them. Let's take a moment to see how to get the most out of collaborating.

A lot of singers and instrumentalists are talented. There's an endless supply of talent out there. You see countless musicians do very well on TV show competitions, but you rarely hear about...