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Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio

By : Joshua Au-Yeung
Book Image

Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio

By: Joshua Au-Yeung

Overview of this book

FL Studio is a cutting-edge software music production environment and a powerful and easy-to-use tool for composing music. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll discover how to use FL Studio's tools and techniques to design exciting soundtracks for your films, TV shows, video games, and much more. You'll start by understanding the business of composing, learning how to communicate, score, market your services, land gigs, and deliver music projects for clients like a professional. Next, you'll set up your studio environment, navigate key tools, such as the channel rack, piano roll, playlist, mixer, and browser, and export songs. The book then advances to show you how to compose orchestral music using MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) programming, with a dedicated section to string instruments. You’ll create sheet music using MuseScore for live musicians to play your compositions. Later, you’ll learn about the art of Foley for recording realistic sound effects, create adaptive music that changes throughout video games, and design music to trigger specific emotions, for example, scary music to terrify your listener. Finally, you'll work on a sample project that will help you prepare for your composing career. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create professional soundtrack scores for your films and video games.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
1
Part 1:The Business of Composing for Clients
3
Part 2:Composing Tools and Techniques
7
Part 3:Designing Music for Films and Video Games

Exporting music

Let's learn how to export our music from FL Studio. The master channel in the Mixer, as shown in the following screenshot, contains the final audio that will be exported:

Figure 2.38 – The master channel

To export the song, go to FILE | Export | Wave file:

Figure 2.39 – Exporting the song

After selecting Wave file, you will be prompted to choose where to save your audio file. Then, you'll see a window with song exporting controls, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.40 – Exporting a song

The simplest way to export your song is to make sure that Mode is set to Full Song. Then, select WAV or MP3, and click Start. This will export your song so that you can listen to your music outside of FL Studio. Congratulations! You've exported your song.

In case you're curious, here's a breakdown of the export settings in detail. In the Project type...