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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 music visuals with ZGameEditor Visualizer

When you're playing a song, you always need a visual. In the long term, you'll need to invest time and effort into learning about video creation or collaborate with someone who does.

In the short term, when you're just getting started, there's a free tool in FL Studio that can easily generate decent animations called ZGameEditor Visualizer. It allows you to sync your music to video and text and add visual effects.

Let's learn how to create animations with ZGameEditor Visualizer:

  1. Create a new project and import your finished song into the playlist. You'll want a new FL Studio project as ZGameEditor Visualizer can be quite CPU intensive.
  2. On the master bus Mixer channel, load up the ZGameEditor Visualizer effect plugin:

    Figure 12.1 – ZGameEditor Visualizer

    ZGameEditor Visualizer allows you to load videos, images, and effects in layers. Although you could create animations from scratch...