Create and compose production-quality music with the power of FL Studio 20 along with MuseScore and Wwise
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
What’s inside
- Widely applicable music composition techniques that will help you create full orchestral scores
- Best practices to leverage the power of FL Studio to create your own production-level soundtracks
- Ways of leveraging cutting-edge tools to fuel your creative ideas and launch your composer career
You'll get the most out of this book if
- You’re either a musician or a programmer who wants to take their music composing skills to a professional level
- You're a film director or a game designer who wants to get involved in scoring music for your own productions
- You own a computer and a copy of FL Studio
Your journey through the book
The first section of this book will take you through the business basics of composing, which will include 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, and export songs.
Orchestral music using MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) programming will follow, along with a section dedicated to string instruments. You'll also create sheet music using MuseScore, 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 – all while working on a sample project.
Some of the things you'll learn in this book
- Production-ready music composition for films and video games
- Planning and delivering a soundtrack music score for clients like a professional
- Applying practical music theory using themes, leitmotifs, scales, and modes
- Composing orchestral music with MIDI programming
- How to design music for specific emotions
- Creating sheet music with MuseScore, scoring music for films with Fruity Video Player, and making diegetic music
- Designing interactive music by leveraging horizontal resequencing and vertical remixing
Table of Contents
- The Business of Composing for Clients
- Navigating Through the Key Features of FL Studio
- Designing Music with Themes, Leitmotifs, and Scales
- Orchestral MIDI Composing
- Creating Sheet Music with MuseScore, Scoring with Fruity Video Player, and Diegetic Music
- Influencing Mood with Music and Designing Emotional Music
- Creating Interactive Music for Video Games with Wwise
- Soundtrack Composing Templates
Joshua Au-Yeung (professionally known as Chester Sky) is a music producer, composer, director, and software developer. He's published 10+ music albums, directed and composed for films, created board games and dozens of art pieces, and hosts a podcast. He's an instructor of online courses, including best-selling courses on music production and composing for films and video games. His previous book, The Music Producer's Ultimate Guide to FL Studio 20, reached #1 on Amazon in the Digital Audio Production category.