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The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 21 - Second Edition

You're reading from  The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 21 - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631650
Pages 462 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Joshua Au-Yeung Joshua Au-Yeung
Profile icon Joshua Au-Yeung

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Section I: Getting Up and Running with FL Studio
2. Getting Started with FL Studio 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 instruments with DirectWave

DirectWave is a native FL Studio plugin sampler. Among other things, it allows you to take any single audio sample and generate additional pitches for the sound. Let’s create instruments with DirectWave:

  1. Add the DirectWave plugin to the channel rack.
  2. Locate an audio sample you’d like to convert into an instrument. This works best with one-shot samples or sampled instruments. You can find a list of samples and instruments intended for use in DirectWave in the browser, under the Packs folder.
  3. Drag the sample or sampled instrument into DirectWave in the channel rack, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.13 – Gross Beat sequencer

If you want to quickly swap out one sample for another, you can do so by clicking on the sample in the browser with the scroll button on your mouse.

Once the sample or sampled instrument has been dragged in, DirectWave will open, as shown in the following...

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