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Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio

Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio

By : Joshua Au-Yeung
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Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio

Music for Film and Game Soundtracks with FL Studio

4.8 (12)
By: Joshua Au-Yeung

Overview of this book

FL 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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Part 1:The Business of Composing for Clients
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Part 2:Composing Tools and Techniques
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Part 3:Designing Music for Films and Video Games

Getting started with Wwise

Let's install a demo game that comes with Wwise so we can see examples of how interactive music can be used.

Just a little heads up, the following steps are quite fiddly. Don't feel bad if you struggle a little to figure out how to use Wwise in the beginning. It is quite a complex software to wrap your head around the first time you encounter it:

  1. After you download the installer from the Audiokinetic website, you'll be greeted with a window prompting you to download the latest version.

Figure 7.2 – Wwise Launcher

  1. After selecting the Install… button, you'll encounter the following window:

Figure 7.3 – Installing samples

  1. Make sure you check Samples to get the demo files. Then, select the platform you want to deploy on.

In this case, I'm using a Windows computer, so I've chosen Windows. Then, choose where on your computer you...

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