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Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio

You're reading from   Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio Learn music production, compose orchestral music, and launch your music career

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803233291
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:The Business of Composing for Clients
2. Chapter 1: The Business of Composing for Clients FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2:Composing Tools and Techniques
4. Chapter 2: Navigating Through the Key Features of FL Studio 5. Chapter 3: Designing Music with Themes, Leitmotifs, and Scales 6. Chapter 4: Orchestral MIDI Composing 7. Part 3:Designing Music for Films and Video Games
8. Chapter 5: Creating Sheet Music with MuseScore, Scoring with Fruity Video Player, and Diegetic Music 9. Chapter 6: Influencing Mood with Music and Designing Emotional Music 10. Chapter 7: Creating Interactive Music for Video Games with Wwise 11. Chapter 8: Soundtrack Composing Templates 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Recording audio

In order to record live sounds in FL Studio, you will need the Producer Edition of FL Studio or higher.

When recording audio in FL Studio, you will need to have a microphone connected to your computer. When you have the microphone connected, open up the Mixer, select an empty mixer track by left-clicking, and then select the audio input source and choose your microphone. The following screenshot shows how to select a microphone; in my case, the microphone name is ln 1 - ln 2 (yours will have a different name):

Figure 2.33 – Selecting a microphone

Once you've chosen your microphone, you are now ready to record audio. If you look at the Mixer, you'll notice a little red indicator on a selected mixer track, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.34 – The channel ready to record audio input

This red light indicates that recorded audio will be sent to that selected mixer track. Any effects...

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