Create and compose production-quality music with the power of FL
Studio 20 along with MuseScore and Wwise
Key Features:
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Develop widely applicable music composition techniques and create full
orchestral scores
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Leverage the power of FL Studio to create your own production-level
soundtracks
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Use cutting-edge tools to fuel your creative ideas and launch your
composer career
Book Description:
FL Studio is a cutting-edge software music production environment and a
powerful and easy-to-use tool for composing music. In this comprehensive
guide, you'll discover how to use FL Studio's tools and techniques to
design exciting soundtracks for your films, TV shows, video games, and
much more.
You'll start by understanding the business of composing, learning how to
communicate, score, market your services, land gigs, and deliver music
projects for clients like a professional. Next, you'll set up your
studio environment, navigate key tools, such as the channel rack, piano
roll, playlist, mixer, and browser, and export songs. The book then
advances to show you how to compose orchestral music using MIDI (musical
instrument digital interface) programming, with a dedicated section to
string instruments. You'll create sheet music using MuseScore for live
musicians to play your compositions. Later, you'll learn about the art
of Foley for recording realistic sound effects, create adaptive music
that changes throughout video games, and design music to trigger
specific emotions, for example, scary music to terrify your listener.
Finally, you'll work on a sample project that will help you prepare for
your composing career.
By the end of this book, you'll be able to create professional
soundtrack scores for your films and video games.
What You Will Learn:
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Compose production-ready music for films and video games
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Plan and deliver a soundtrack music score for clients like a
professional
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Apply practical music theory using themes, leitmotifs, scales, and
modes
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Compose orchestral music with MIDI programming
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Design music for specific emotions
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Create sheet music with MuseScore, score music for films with Fruity
Video Player, and make diegetic music
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Design interactive music by leveraging horizontal resequencing and
vertical remixing
Who this book is for:
This book is for musicians and programmers who want to take their music
composing skills to a professional level. Film directors and game
designers who want to get involved in scoring music for their own
productions will also find this book useful. All you need is a computer
and FL Studio to get started.
