You're reading from The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 21 From beginner to pro: compose, mix, and master music

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837631650

Length 462 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

FINAL CUT PRO

Concepts

Music Production

Author (1):

Joshua Au-Yeung

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section I: Getting Up and Running with FL Studio

2. Getting Started with FL Studio FREE CHAPTER

3. Exploring the Browser, Playlist, and Channel Rack

4. Composing with the Piano Roll

5. Routing to the Mixer and Applying Automation

6. Section II: Music Production Fundamentals

7. Sound Design and Audio Envelopes

8. Compression, Sidechaining, Limiting, and Equalization

9. Stereo Width (Panning, Reverb, Delay, Chorus, and Flangers) and Distortion

10. Recording Live Audio and Vocal Processing

11. Vocoders and Vocal Chops

12. Creating Your Own Instruments and Effects

13. Intermediate Mixing Topics and Sound Design Plugin Effects

14. Section III: Postproduction and Publishing Your Music

15. Mastering Fundamentals

16. Marketing, Content Creation, Getting Fans, and Going Viral

17. Publishing and Selling Music Online

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Creating effects with Patcher

Patcher is an FL Studio plugin that allows you to chain instruments and effects together. Patcher allows you to create your own custom instrument and effect chains, link everything together, and save them for reuse in other projects. Patcher is related to modular synthesis. Modular synthesis is where you have individual instrument and effect components and link them together to connect everything.

Patcher can be loaded into the channel rack or onto a mixer channel. If loaded into the channel rack, you can load instrument plugins and Patcher will play the instrument using MIDI notes sent to it from the piano roll. If Patcher is loaded in the mixer, it’s intended to be used as an effect rather than to play MIDI notes. In the following examples, we assume that you want to use Patcher as an instrument and accept MIDI notes, and have loaded Patcher into the channel rack: