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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

Using the Browser

The Browser organizes your samples and instruments and provides convenient access to easily insert and swap them in and out of your project. Let's explore the Browser features:

  1. Open the Browser by selecting the Browser icon:

    Figure 2.6 – Browser button

    The Browser window will open up with a list of folder names. You can see a list of various samples, instruments, and effects organized by folder name. You can think of this just like any other folder on your computer. They are simply there to provide you with convenient shortcuts to your files:

    Figure 2.7 – The Browser

    You can navigate the folders using the arrow keys on your keyboard. The right arrow key will open up the selected folder, while the left arrow key will close the folder and move to the level above it.

  2. Let's take a look at the samples inside some of the folders. Click the icon that says Packs:

    Figure 2.8 – Packs

    Within the Packs folder, we can see a list of folders...