- 266 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio
About This Book
Create and compose production-quality music with the power of FL Studio 20 along with MuseScore and WwiseKey Features⢠Develop widely applicable music composition techniques and create full orchestral scores⢠Leverage the power of FL Studio to create your own production-level soundtracks⢠Use cutting-edge tools to fuel your creative ideas and launch your composer careerBook DescriptionFL 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⢠Compose production-ready music for films and video games⢠Plan and deliver a soundtrack music score for clients like a professional⢠Apply practical music theory using themes, leitmotifs, scales, and modes⢠Compose orchestral music with MIDI programming⢠Design music for specific emotions⢠Create sheet music with MuseScore, score music for films with Fruity Video Player, and make diegetic music⢠Design interactive music by leveraging horizontal resequencing and vertical remixingWho this book is forThis 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.
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Part 1:The Business of Composing for Clients
- Chapter 1, The Business of Composing for Clients
Chapter 1: The Business of Composing for Clients
- Landing your first composing gig
- Preparing for meeting clients
- Planning a music score
- Collaborating with others
- Advice for avoiding rookie mistakes
- The day-to-day tasks of composing
Landing your first composing gig
How to establish yourself as a professional
- Have a professional-looking music website that displays your music and music-creating services. The website should at a minimum have samples of your music, a short biography about you, and your contact information.
- Have your past music easily accessible so you can provide it at a moment's notice. I personally use SoundCloud as my site of choice when I need to provide links to my portfolio. SoundCloud is a website where you can upload your music, and listeners can listen to it without having to log in.
- Get business cards. Even though people don't need business cards anymore when contact information can be plugged into your phone, a business card makes people think you're serious about what you do. Business cards are also convenient to hand out at events. If you don't have business cards already, go make some.
- Create an email account dedicated to music business-related activities. Make sure your email address sounds professional.
- Create a Facebook page dedicated to your music-related business. When you share a post saying that you made music for a project, it acts as free advertisement for you.
- Even better than a Facebook page, create a local community group or Facebook group related to your music business. When I was in university, I wanted to create films, but there weren't any film-making groups on campus. So, I created my own. This helped to foster a community of filmmakers and gave me opportunities to get started creating my music portfolio. I was also lucky enough to enroll in classes about creating video games, which gave me my first shot at composing for games. If you're a student, you have a golden opportunity to organize student groups around music/films/video games. There are always lots of like-minded people eager to join as members. Make the most of these student opportunities while you can.
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Table of contents
- Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part 1:The Business of Composing for Clients
- Chapter 1: The Business of Composing for Clients
- Part 2:Composing Tools and Techniques
- Chapter 2: Navigating Through the Key Features of FL Studio
- Chapter 3: Designing Music with Themes, Leitmotifs, and Scales
- Chapter 4: Orchestral MIDI Composing
- Part 3:Designing Music for Films and Video Games
- Chapter 5: Creating Sheet Music with MuseScore, Scoring with Fruity Video Player, and Diegetic Music
- Chapter 6: Influencing Mood with Music and Designing Emotional Music
- Chapter 7: Creating Interactive Music for Video Games with Wwise
- Chapter 8: Soundtrack Composing Templates
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