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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 and exporting MIDI scores

Piano rolls have opened up the playing field for creating music to people who have not studied music theory. Reading music is now completely optional and not mandatory in order to make music.

If you wanted to copy music into FL Studio, do you need to manually write each note? No, there is a much easier method. You can copy MIDI notes directly into the Piano roll just by importing them. Doing so will require you to have MIDI notes to copy. You can get MIDI notes for almost any song just by Google searching the name of the song followed by the words MIDI notes. Once you've found and downloaded the MIDI notes, you need to bring the MIDI notes into the Piano roll. You can do this either by dragging the file from anywhere on your computer into the Piano roll or by locating the MIDI note file in the FL Studio Browser and then dragging it into the Piano roll. Once you've done this, the Piano roll will populate with notes from the MIDI file.

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