Creating Your Signature Sound

Now its time to start building a library of signature sounds that will represent you and your productions in the marketplace. And yes, you can buy or license sounds from third-party websites and producers that are incredible and have led to multi-platinum hits, but wouldn’t it be amazing to have a one-of-one signature sound? That’s what we are going to do here. In fact, I’m going to show you how to do this by exclusively only using FL Studio’s stock sounds (sounds crazy, I know!) but the reality is, all of those amazing sounds you hear on third-party websites are just a combination of stock sounds and custom layers created by other producers. This in essence is called “sound design."

Leveraging the art of creating sound design will impart upon you a few different forms of skill sets, not limited to just banging drum sounds, unique synth patches, or arrangement tweaks. Learning how to create sound design with bare...