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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned that the Piano roll is used to compose melodies. We learned the steps to create chord progressions from scratch. You can insert notes into the Piano roll manually or by recording a MIDI instrument. The Event Editor allows you to edit individual note articulations. The Piano roll can use magnets and quantizing to get the timing of your notes in sync with the song tempo, as well as provide you with assistance when choosing notes in your scale. The Piano roll makes it easy to compare melodies played by accompanying instruments and to copy notes from one instrument to another. The Piano roll also allows you to import and export MIDI notes and sheet music.

If you can learn to play the Piano roll, it means you can play any plugin that plays MIDI notes. This is a big deal as it allows you to compose melodies for any instrument.

In the next chapter, we'll explore the Mixer and learn how to apply automation to controls.