the complete guide to creating production-quality music with FL Studio in SearchWorks catalog (2024)

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Au-Yeung, Joshua, author.

Contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Section 1: Getting Up and Running with FL Studio
• Chapter 01: Getting Started with FL Studio
• Technical requirements
• Exploring the music production landscape
• The musician's career path
• Steps in composing a song
• What is FL Studio?
• Exploring the FL Studio workspace
• Making your first song
• Creating a drum beat with the Channel Rack
• Adding an instrument to the Channel Rack
• Creating a melody with the Piano roll
• Routing channels to the Mixer
• Exporting the song
• Summary
• Chapter 02: Exploring the Browser, Playlist, and Channel Rack
• Technical requirements
• Introducing the FL Studio workbench
• Getting the most out of your samples
• Using the Browser
• Locating a sample's file location
• Searching for samples
• Adding your own samples to the Browser
• Swapping samples
• Using the Channel Rack
• Channel Rack option features
• The Channel Rack Rename, color and icon option
• Instrument options
• Detaching windows
• Installing new instruments
• Using layers
• Using the Playlist
• Playlist Toolbar
• Element pattern options
• Using the main header Toolbar features
• Version control
• Revert to last backup
• Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO)
• Purge unused audio clips
• Undo and redo
• Viewing project info
• Summary
• Chapter 03: Composing with the Piano Roll
• Using the Piano roll
• Choosing an instrument
• Adding notes in the Piano roll
• Selecting multiple notes
• Deleting notes
• Muting and unmuting notes
• Slicing notes
• Sliding notes
• Using the stamp tool to get assistance with scales
• Composing great chord progressions
• Recording into the Piano roll with MIDI instruments
• The snap to grid (magnet) tool
• Quantizing notes
• Editing note articulations with the Event Editor.

• Using Piano roll velocity
• Comparing instrument melodies with ghost notes
• Exporting sheet music
• Using and exporting MIDI scores
• Summary
• Chapter 04: Routing to the Mixer and Applying Automation
• What is mixing?
• Routing audio to the Mixer
• Navigating the Mixer console
• Understanding the insert mixer track
• Understanding the master channel
• Understanding the effects rack
• Applying an effect
• Applying automation
• Applying automation to external third-party plugins
• Freezing Audio Clips
• Summary
• Section 2: Music Production Fundamentals
• Chapter 05: Sound Design and Audio Envelopes
• What is sound?
• What causes a note's pitch?
• How do we hear things?
• How do instruments create sound with different pitches?
• Why do different instruments playing the same pitch sound different?
• Modifying sound envelopes
• Using Mod X and Mod Y for automation
• Summary
• Chapter 06: Compression, Sidechaining, Limiting, and Equalization
• Understanding compression
• Applying compression with Fruity Limiter
• Applying gates and expanders
• When to use gating
• Applying sidechaining
• Using limiters
• Applying equalization
• EQ best practices
• EQ general rules
• Summary
• Chapter 07: Stereo Width
• Panning, Reverb, Delay, Chorus, and Flangers
• Panning audio
• Panning best practices
• Using reverb
• Applying digital reverb with Fruity Reeverb 2
• Applying convolution reverb with Fruity Convolver
• Using delay effects
• Applying delay effects with Fruity Delay 3
• Delay effect best practices
• Using chorus effects
• Chorus effect best practices
• Using flanger effects
• Using phaser effects
• Understanding mix buses
• Mix bus best practices
• Summary
• Chapter 08: Recording Live Audio and Vocal Processing
• Technical requirements
• Understanding microphones
• Dynamic microphones.

• Condenser microphones
• Ribbon microphones
• USB microphones
• Setting up your recording environment
• Recording instruments
• Recording drum kits
• Preparing to record vocals
• Recording audio into FL Studio
• Recording with Edison
• Using pitch correction with Newtone
• Pitch correction best practices
• Vocals effect processing best practices
• Backing vocals effects best practices
• Summary
• Chapter 09: Understanding Vocal Effects
• Understanding vocoders
• Understanding MIDI
• Using vocoders
• Harmonizing vocals with Pitcher
• Using Vocodex
• Vocoder best practices
• Creating vocal chops
• Using Slicex to create vocal chops
• Vocal chopping considerations
• Summary
• Section 3: Postproduction and Publishing Your Music
• Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Instruments and Effects
• Understanding glitch effects
• Creating glitch effects with Gross Beat
• Mapping time and volume effects to a sample
• Gross Beat sequencer
• Creating instruments with DirectWave
• Creating effects with Patcher
• Creating custom dashboards in Patcher
• Summary
• Chapter 11: Mastering Fundamentals
• What is mastering?
• Can you master music yourself?
• When should you master your music?
• How do I get good at mastering?
• What equipment do I use to master music?
• Equalization in mastering
• Diagnosing frequency problems
• Understanding spectrograms
• Adjusting dynamics
• Using multiband compressors
• Applying multiband compression with Maximus
• What are saturators/harmonic exciters?
• Understanding limiters
• Understanding stereo imaging with vectorscopes
• Stereo imaging best practices
• Exporting audio for third-party mixing and mastering
• Summary
• Chapter 12: Branding, Promotion, and Marketing
• Marketing essentials
• Creating a brand
• Choosing your artist name
• Creating a website.

• Making the most of your live performances
• Booking your first gigs
• Filming your shows
• Streaming performances online
• Collaborating with others to promote yourself
• Advice for creating content on social media
• Getting more views on YouTube
• What about YouTube video titles and thumbnails?
• Creating music visuals with ZGameEditor Visualizer
• Summary
• Chapter 13: Publishing and Selling Music Online
• Registering your music
• Tagging your music in preparation for distribution
• Selling music on online stores and streaming services
• DistroKid walk-through
• Claiming revenue from songs on YouTube using AdRev
• What are ISRC, ISWC, and UPC codes?
• Summary
• Further reading
• Share your music
• More from the author
• Conclusion
• Why subscribe?
• About PACKT
• Other Books You May Enjoy
• Index.

Subjects

FL Studio (Computer file)

Sound > Recording and reproducing > Digital techniques.

Music > Data processing.

Musique > Informatique.

Publication date

2021

ISBN

9781800563377 (electronic bk.)

180056337X (electronic bk.)

1800565321

9781800565326