Composing in FL Studio – the basics
FL Studio is a powerful and effective digital audio workstation (DAW) that enables you to write music in a variety of genres and create melodies. To approach melody and composition theory in FL Studio, follow the guidelines in this section.
Conventional wisdom will tell you to learn the fundamentals of melody. This is definitely something you should invest time and energy into throughout your career. However, FL Studio’s tools allow you to hack the music composing system by giving you a clear set of tools that can be used in simplicity to create melody and chord progressions by ear, without knowing the exact names of the chords and keys from the outset.
Rather, while you build your own knowledge bank of the music theory, understand that melody is the central element of musical composition and is composed of a series of notes played in a specific order. When you begin to understand the fundamentals of music theory, such as scales...