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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 flanger effects

Flanger effects are similar to chorus effects and create a copy of the original sound, adjusting the delay times. The copied sound is delayed usually between 5 and 25 ms. A low-frequency modulator is applied to the delay time to oscillate between shorter and longer delay times. Since the waveforms are the same, wave interference occurs as discussed in Chapter 5, Sound Design and Audio Envelopes. At certain interfering frequencies, resonances are created. You can think of a resonance as an intense tone made more pronounced than other frequencies. The low-frequency oscillator moves around the waveform to find different resonances. We call this sweeping resonance sound a flanger. Flangers take advantage of the feedback to resend the output sound back into itself and create additional resonances.

As a general guideline, consider applying flanger effects to hi-hats, guitars, and pads. When mixing, you want to place flanger effects before your delay and reverb effects...