The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20
Create production-quality music with FL Studio
Joshua Au-Yeung
BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI
The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20
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Contributors
About the author
Joshua Au-Yeung (professionally known as Chester Sky) is a music producer, composer, director, and software developer. He has published more than nine albums, directed and composed for short films, created board games, and hosts a podcast. He's an instructor for several online courses, including bestselling courses on music production and composing for films.
About the reviewer
Shaun Friedman is a music artist and composer from Cleveland, Ohio whose instrumentals have been played on NBC, CBS, MTV, and Animal Planet, to name a few. He also has hundreds of beats that are being utilized on YouTube by various content creators. He is an educator who works in public, private, and religious schools. He founded his company, Unbelievable Beats LLC, in 2006 and has previously authored FL Studio Cookbook, published by Packt in 2014.
Preface
FL Studio is a cutting-edge software music production environment. It's an extremely powerful and easy-to-use tool for creating music. This book will cover everything you need to know to produce music with FL Studio at a professional level.
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 learn how to set up your studio environment, create a beat, compose a melody and chord progression, mix sounds with effects, and export songs. You'll learn how to use tools such as the Piano roll, the Mixer console, audio envelopes, types of compression, equalizers, vocoders, vocal chops, and tools for increasing stereo width. The book also introduces you to mixing best practices and how to master your songs. Along the way, you'll explore glitch effects and create your own instruments and custom-designed effect chains. We'll also cover ZGameEditor Visualizer, a tool for creating reactive visuals for your songs. Finally, you'll learn how to register, sell, and promote your music.