Curtis Lau's Music Production

In the previous stage, I've established the sounds that would eventually become the melody. Yet it was unfinished as it sounds rather empty. Given this circumstance, I've added some elements/effects that would help solve this problem. However, before I did that, I had to assign each sound onto separate inserts in the mixer. This is so that I could apply plugins that would affect each sound individually. From there, an equalizer is first applied to each of the sounds I made through an equalizer plugin. Equalizing (EQ) is a technique where you boost and/or cut certain frequencies of sounds so that they do not interfere with one another. Without any EQing, any minute and unwanted frequencies of one sound may conflict with another that depends on those frequencies. This obstruction leads to your composition sounding “muddy”, a term that describes something that's not articulate or clear when heard. Using the square lead as an example, I will show how the EQ plugin looks lik...

Now with the melody written down onto FL Studio, I need to take those notes and plug them into the synthesizer plugin. First I need to open up the synth plugin in the channel rack. I used the plugin called Sylenth1. Sylenth channel opened in the channel rack Opening up the plugin, you can see there are a lot of virtual knobs, levers, as well as a piano keyboard to experiment with. Within a plugin like this, there are many possible sounds you can create. I won't be covering what each knob does here on the blog because frankly, I'm not entirely familiar myself. Interface of Sylenth1 With the melody notes written onto FL Keys' piano roll from the last blog, we can transfer that information onto the piano roll of Sylethn1. This action lets Sylenth1 know which notes to play during playback. Sylenth1 channel is created carrying the notes of the melody As I said before, I'm not entirely familiar with Sylenth1. With the short amount of time that I am lim...