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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 21

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631650
Length 462 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

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

Editing automation clips

Once you’ve created an automation clip, you can edit the automation. Let’s see this through an example:

  1. Right-click on any automatable control and create an automation clip in the playlist.
  2. Double-left-click on the automation clip name in the playlist. The automation editor will appear as shown in the following screenshot.

Figure 4.17 – Automation editor

In the preceding screenshot, we made a bunch of random selections for the automation. The exact automation isn’t important; the goal is just to show you how to navigate to the automation editor.

In the automation editor, you can refine automation curves. You can play your clip in the playlist simultaneously to see how your song is affected by the automation.

In the automation editor, you’ll see a grid of points indicating automation. Higher points mean an increase in control value and lower points mean a lower value. The value will...

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