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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

Using the Channel Rack

The Channel Rack contains your instruments and samples you are currently using in a music pattern. It's here in the Channel Rack that you'll add and remove instruments, create percussive rhythms, and flip between music patterns. A music pattern is a group of notes that are played by instruments on the Channel Rack. Multiple instruments can play notes at the same time in a single pattern. Audio from each channel on the Channel Rack is then routed to the Mixer.

Open up the Channel Rack by selecting the Channel Rack icon on the main Toolbar:

Figure 2.20 – Channel Rack in the Toolbar

The Channel Rack will open up and show the currently selected music pattern. The following screenshot shows the Channel Rack:

Figure 2.21 – Channel Rack pattern

Moving from left to right on the Channel Rack, first you see a green light to indicate whether the instrument is on or muted (deactivated). Instruments...