A Power User's Guide to FL Studio 21 Master the Art of Music Production and Advanced Mixing Techniques to Create Billboard-Charting Records
A digital audio workstation empowering both aspiring and seasoned producers to create original music compositions, FL Studio has not only advanced the culture of collaboration across several genres but has provided a creative outlet for up-and-coming artists worldwide. Achieving professional product...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing
[2023]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009769021306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Understanding the Basics
- Chapter 1: Delving into the FL Studio Mindset and Workflow
- Perfect practice makes practice perfect
- Mindset and using FL Studio
- Making hits that work for the masses
- The mental balance scale
- Using and organizing the Browser and Channel Rack
- Exploring the Browser tool
- Exploring the Channel Rack
- Understanding the Arrangement tool (the Playlist)
- FL Studio's Mixer and plugins
- Setting up a mixing template
- Adding sounds to the mixer
- FL Studio key plugins
- Summary
- Exercise
- Part 2: Creating Music with FL Studio
- Chapter 2: From the Piano Roll to the Billboard Charts
- Using the Piano Roll
- Opening the Piano Roll
- How to use the piano roll
- Getting started with the Piano Roll
- Recording in the Piano Roll
- Some useful features of FL Studio
- Quantizing notes
- Piano Roll hacks - the Billboard producer's template
- Understanding music theory in modern pop music
- Introducing pop chord regression theory
- Creating melodies that work
- Building MIDI templates in the Piano Roll
- Using the stamp tool to create chords
- Optimizing workflow in the Piano Roll
- Workflow optimization hacks
- Summary
- Exercise
- Chapter 3: Creating Your Signature Sound
- Why should you create your own signature sound?
- Crafting your signature sound with FL Studio's stock sounds
- Creating drum sounds - kicks that really hit
- Adding a generic kick
- Adding textured kicks
- Adding more texture to kicks
- Creating drum sounds - snares that pop
- Crafting signature hi-hat sounds
- Creating synths and custom sounds
- Producer tags and sonic branding
- Creating an arrangement style
- Mixing for a creative feel (not the same as mixing for release)
- Summary
- Exercise.
- Chapter 4: Working through Drum Programming and Arrangements
- Taking the creation of drum loops to another level
- Creativity versus programming
- Using the Channel Rack to create billboard charting drum loops
- The hip hop Channel Rack framework
- The West Coast hip hop Channel Rack framework
- The modern West Coast hip hop Channel Rack framework
- The trap music Channel Rack framework
- Creating suspense through transitionary ear candy
- Drum programming in FL Studio
- Drum sequence templates for hacking billboards
- East Coast Patterns
- West Coast Patterns
- Modern West Coast patterns
- Trap Patterns
- Club Patterns
- Summary
- Exercise
- Chapter 5: Approaching Melody and Composition Theory
- Basics of music composition theory
- Fundamentals of music theory
- Studying the icons
- Creating on the fly from experience
- Working off the cuff
- Composing in FL Studio - the basics
- Selecting a key
- Using rhythms in composition
- Picking your sound palette
- Layering and stylistic rules
- Crafting melodies in FL Studio
- Creating billboard chart melodies in FL Studio
- Composition theory
- Billboard charting pop chord progression frameworks
- Rap chord progression frameworks
- Chord progression frameworks in modern music
- Summary
- Exercise
- Chapter 6: A Billboard-Ready Production Arrangement
- Introduction to arrangement
- History of arrangement
- Modern-day arranging
- Pop music frameworks
- Using FL Studio to increase your workflow arrangement
- Creating the billboard charting arrangement templates
- The rap arrangement formula
- Sonic signature in arrangements
- Arrangement transitions
- Transitional effects
- Drop-ins and dropouts of drum patterns
- Summary
- Exercise
- Part 3: Best Techniques and How to Appear on the Billboard Charts
- Chapter 7: Chart-Topping Mixing Techniques.
- Why we mix, and why we master
- Mixing from a technical standpoint versus a creative standpoint
- Creative mixing
- Technical mixing
- Plugins for chart-topping mixing techniques
- Parametric EQ 2
- Fruity Compressor
- Reverb - Fruity Reeverb 2
- Delay - Fruity Delay 3
- Panning - Fruity Stereo Shaper
- The power of plugin stacks for technical frameworks
- Mixing drums using FL Studio stock plugins
- Mixing melodies and progressions using FL Studio stock plugins
- Summary
- Exercise
- Chapter 8: How to Get Records Placed So They Land on Billboard Charts
- Embrace your journey
- Understanding placements
- Record placements
- Sync placements
- A catalog is a sellable asset
- Catalogs are an alternative asset class
- How catalogs are valued
- Rights and income streams
- Copyright sides
- The publishing side
- The master side
- Taking action - put yourself in the right place at the right time
- Foundation steps - how to position yourself
- Two approaches to success
- Taking action steps
- Utilizing cold outreach
- Building a lead list
- Summarizing the actions
- Types of deals
- Co-publishing deals
- Administration deals
- Traditional publishing deals
- Self-publishing
- Production deals
- Management deals
- Label deals
- Joint venture deals
- Distribution deals
- The steps for a successful career
- Summary
- Index
- Other Books You May Enjoy.
