Wanting to increase my knowledge of music, and creating music

Re: Wanting to increase my knowledge of music, and creating music

You use FL Studio, yeah? That's your DAW. Press F9 in FL to get to the mixer board.

Open FL and press the TAB key until you see this:


Then click any instrument and you'll see this:


You see that number slider in the top right-hand corner that says 1 right now? You can roll that to whatever number you want, and that instrument will be sent to that mixer channel. Double-click the number to get to the corresponding mixer channel automatically.

Then click any of the little arrows to add effects or whatever.


The mixer presets you see to the left can be dragged into the mixer channels as well. Press F8 to get to them.

Re: Wanting to increase my knowledge of music, and creating music

Haha that's what i thought. you're all telling him to study analog music when it sounds like he's wanting to learn about DAWs in the opening post

Most FL studio is by ear. I've played piano since age 4 and never normally apply any of that information to a piano roll on FL rofl.
You should be learning about things like:
reverberation
additives
layering
hertz
filters
resonance
envelopes and LFOs
delay
compression

and for FL studio:
Insert
Send
Automation clip
channel settings
Quantization

most of these words have tutorials n stuff on youtube haha

However, if you're interested in analog music like piano and guitar and stuff rather than DAWs, that's always just as fun and i encourage it

Re: Wanting to increase my knowledge of music, and creating music

I've found experimenting with analog instruments gives you a MUCH better idea of what to do when you sit down in front of a screen.

Piano roll makes a lot more sense when you've played a piano :P

Re: Wanting to increase my knowledge of music, and creating music

Yes there are many scales there, but still only 12 different notes! You could make a decent tune using only a major/minor pentatonic which only has five notes.


Alas, I would be lying if i thought producing music was easy. I've never even really got that great at it compared to my abilities with traditional instruments.

My point is the best way to learn is by experience, but a proper foundation is crucial. That's why piano is best methinks.

Re: Wanting to increase my knowledge of music, and creating music

Oh, if you have any specific questions that you want answered, you can just ask us.
Or even msg the Team Poke'mon Skype group.

I'm willing to help~

Also, Ohaider imo seems to know the most about FL.

Re: Wanting to increase my knowledge of music, and creating music

Alright Frank, thanks. I don't have the skype group though... =/

Yes, I was talking about the info Ohaider gave me, but I knew I needed to know some basics of music. Which is why TheThongs link is helping a lot. Thanks for the images Stone, I had no idea what that number did at all!

Thanks again ohaider, that was my next step I was planning on going to, but didn't know how/what to ask for.