( SlumBeat)STEP1: The Starting Point Of Music Sound Production.

Thursday, 21 January 2016 we treated about the instruments needed for you to start your own home studio by producing musical sounds for yourself and for other musicians.

So, today we will be talking about the sound production software. Remember, our sample is FL studio platform and we assumed you might have installed it on your device. its free online. having installed it, click on it on your desktop and it will appear just like the image caption below, 

 

wait for it to load properly. Then, see the main platform below:

 Okey!, by mere looking at the platform, you see it is well numbered beeing the functions. I'm going to put you through on the various functions of those parts briefly.

No1: THE VOLUME ADJUSTER:

This is the master volume of the entire studio platform.Though, some instruments have its own adjustable volumes but, the master volume synchronizes the entire volume. i.e, make it have a uniform volume.

No2: THE STEP Contains THE BEAT DISPLAY AT TOP AND THE MINUTE TIME DISPLAY AT THE BOTTOM:

This takes care of seconds, minutes and if any hours spent in a particular track playing. Not much important to our lecture

No3: PAT:

To make a particular line of sound produced at the step sequencer play alone. i.e if you want to test only the kick sound and know how it plays.

No4: SONG: 

click it if you want to play the entire song.

No5: PLAY BUTTON:

To play the particular song selected.

NO6: STOP BUTTON:

To stop a sequencer or song playing.

No7: RECORD BUTTON:

After sound production, when you want to record your song. i.e voice in your real song in line with the sound. Watch out for the full tutorial on recording latter.

No8: TEMPO ICON:

This determines how fast you want a particular beat to be running. Increasing the Tempo makes a song to be either fast or slow.

No9: PLAY LIST:

The sequential arrangement of your song is done here in a block patches form. This is where the play-head robs to play your sound. Your sequential arrangement here determines the organization of your sound. Latter on this playlist.

No10: STEP SEQUENCER:

Where the pattern of your instrument is chose. left-clicking any instrument here triggers the instrument to produce a sound. Many instruments are imported here according to your choice from the PACK stack at the left side of the software.

No11: PIANO ROLL:

The quite astounding feature of FL studio is the piano roll. This gives you the opportunity to achieve exactly the same sound as produced by physical pianos or organ. More lecture on how to use it latter.

No12: THE BROWSER:

This is located at the left-side part of the software. It contains the pack that houses the instruments. The mixer presets, Misc, channel presets and so many other settings.

No13: THE MIXER-MASTER:

The mixer-master is where you insert all the instruments used in creating your sound to a particular mixer instrument that controls the instruments used in your sound to be able to adjust to an appreciable pitch as desired by you. It controls the MASTER VOLUME OF THE MIXER.

More lecture on it latter.

No14: PACK:

Is located in the browser, where all the instruments are loaded.

No15: Patterns In step SEQUENCER: 

The pattern is played as the part to test a particular instruments sound like, testing the kick.

No16: THE PALY LIST DISPLAYED:

picture of the play list comes here.

These are the major parts in the FL studio software. I hope you enjoyed today's lecture. Hopefully, we will be showcasing the structures of these parts and how to use it to achieve your desired musical sounds. Please, study them at your leisure time. See you next time.