Starting the year with three great websites I'm using pretty often, and that I hope you will find useful to produce faster and better!
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Download dozens of great free plugins, including the awesome PianoOne or VSCO (orchestral instruments). Many cool effects AND instruments to use :)Â
Great website to download tons of MIDI files of your favorite songs. Great when you want to remix something!
A huge selection of samples and plugins that you can rent (instead of purchasing them)!
I especially love the quality of the sounds they provide. The search engine is better in the web version, though.Â
They offer a 14-days free trial that you can get at this link!
Expand Your Sound with Splice. Try it for free now!
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Let's share it with the world now! But wait:
You have to choose:
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Some charge you for each song, some work on a fixed, yearly fee. Some are free but work as a label, in the sense that they won't accept your track depending on several criteria.
I personally recommend you use a fixed-fee service such as DistroKid. With them, you pay $19.99/year and you can publish as many songs as you want!
For reference, for my first songs, I used TuneCore. I did not like the fact I had to pay an additional $10/year subscription fee for EACH song I published.
DistroKid has a nice and intuitive interface and also offers additional features such as song splits (it automatically splits the earnings among the people who collaborated on your track).
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In order to include the samples of the project along with your FLP, you have to export the FL Studio project as a "Zipped loop package".Â
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The next step is to send this file to your friend. All he/she has to do is to double-click on that Zip file and open the extracted FLP in FL Studio.
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I used all of them in my latest track "Run Away"!
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And of course: don't forget to pray to FL Studio God!
Edwan
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to use when you want to create loopable loops. Wrap Remainder will render the tail of the selection, that is any decaying sound: including the reverb, delay and the part of the instrument that keeps playing after the last bar (release). It starts rendering the last bar, and puts the decaying sounds at the beginning of the loop. Important note about loops: always use the .wav format, since .mp3 inserts a short silence before the loop.
The setting to use when you want to cut the exported sound at the last bar, selection or time marker. No reverb tail or delay is exported, which may result in the exported sound's volume being cut abruptly.
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As I had to export perfectly loopable loops for a video game project, I encountered an issue: when exporting from the FL Studio mixer directly ("arm track" and then "render to wave files"), the end of each loop was cut off. As a result, my loops were not looping smoothly, even if I tried to tweak the "tail" settings.
The only solution was to use the regular export menu ("File --> Export"). Hope this will help someone :)
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(question by Siddartha Biswas)
Thatâs a good question, Broducer!
Here is my recipe (add the plugins in this order)
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(question by Samrat Bhattrai)
Great question, Broducer!
Stereo shaper is a great plugin. It can really make your chords sound wider! Here is how it works: it creates some delay between your left and right channel, shifts the phase of your left or right channel, and routes the right channel into the left one (or inversely). These three effects make the sound wider and should be used on chords, second layer of your lead, white noise FXs or on background vocals!
Stereo Enhancer should be used on an already stereo sound. It won't create stereo, but rather enhance the stereo content that is already present. You should use it at the end of your plugin chain on your instrument bus. Don't use any of these two plugins on bass-rich content (bass, sub, etc) as this would create phase problems which would result in phase cancellation when your track is played on a mono system (often the case in many clubs)!
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