06-16-2008, 06:50 PM | #1 |
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Need help or tips with FL studio?
Ask your questions here! I'll be posting tutorials and examples over time in this first post.
Anyway, here are two tutorials that I have already made: Sidechaining Tutorial Dnb Basses and Breaks Tutorial |
06-16-2008, 07:06 PM | #2 |
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
i don't understand the whole synthesizer stuff people talk about.
could you explain that/vid showing how its used |
06-16-2008, 07:09 PM | #3 |
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
Do you mean synthesizers in general or how to create a certain sound?
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06-16-2008, 07:11 PM | #4 |
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
is it possible to have the bpm change automatically?
like say you have the bpm at 140 but at :40 you want it to slowdown to 98 and then have it go back up to 140 at 1:20
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06-16-2008, 07:20 PM | #5 |
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
Yes, what you do is you right-click the bpm meter and then select "create automation clip." An automation clip can be set to any parameter in FL studio, it's a very handy object for transitions and such. The automation clip will pop up in the audio section of your playlist. It's pretty much self explanatory, but it's very hard to be precise with tempo. Usually what I do is I first create a clip with the original tempo, and then shift down to the desired tempo and create another clip. You just need to piece them together right, and on the first clip you should make a slope up/down to the second tempo. To bring the tempo back up, just create another clip after changing the tempo to 140 again.
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06-16-2008, 07:22 PM | #6 |
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
THANK YOU ive been looking everywhere xD
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
Kind of confusing tutorials since I don't know all the fancy words for stuff. I'll get it eventually!
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06-16-2008, 08:03 PM | #8 |
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
Thank you for making this thread, I'm pretty filled with questions.
Please listen to this clip. http://files.filefront.com/1mp3/;106.../fileinfo.html I would like to know how the bassline was created, and is it solely by one instrument in the bassline? there seems to be an echo for it as well. I might be completely wrong about what I'm talking about, but its a start. Also, what kind of VSTis do you think will produce the bassline from, say... Basshunter's music? I'm a beginner, but made some progress by screwing around with it, and learning as I go. But now the problem is I have absolutely no idea how to use the softsynths like Sytrus, piozone and things like that. I would appreciate some help on these matters =P Other questions: "What is FM synth? What is subtractive synth? What is Time stretching? What is TNS? What is a filter? what is FX in sytrus? What is mod X and Y in sytrus? What is envelop What is LFO? Sorry, I've got a lot more =/ and I've read tutorials on a lot of things, but their crappy explanations doesn't cut it. Thank in advance! |
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
You are my hero.
I tried to figure this program out on my own and failed. I shall try your tutorials once I get my computer back. Would you be able to make a beginners tutorial? Like what the basic controls are and how to input sounds and what not? A bit sad to ask, I know. However, I am dying to make music of my own. I am just a tad stupid when it comes to programs other than Photoshop/WMM and the like.
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I'll be posting videos here very shortly, perhaps that would be easier to follow. |
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Videos would be amazing.
I'm a visual learner, so I'll follow better if I can see what you are doing. Obviously. I can't wait!
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06-16-2008, 09:47 PM | #13 |
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Lol I want to learn to make music... But I don't understand anything. I'm such a noob lol.
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06-16-2008, 10:01 PM | #14 |
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Thank you kindly for the explanations. You will definitely see more of me in this thread =P
I'm pretty convinced that I want to create music, inspired by SHIKI and aspire to produce melodic/progressive Trance. FL studio is the easiest way. FLS is the best beginner/user friendly DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) programs out there, with a easy (arguably yes) and elaborate GUI. Compared to Cubase, Sony ACID, and Reason, I think FLS is full of win. |
06-17-2008, 10:29 PM | #15 |
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Another a few questions that just came up. (I think a new question deserves a double post.)
I've messed with it before, but now that I really need it, I can't seem to do it. When doing a piano roll, the notes you inputted might be a whole note for each note. How can I select notes and then reduce the note value for those notes? Example: 4 whole notes, I wish to shrink and reduce their duration to 4 half notes. There was a keyboard shortcut, it seemed to have slipped my mind. Secondly, as I have not yet got an ASIO driver and a MIDI keyboard, I use ctrl+T, or computer keyboard to mimic the keys for a piano. Is it possible to record like this? I "play" on my computer keyboard, and the notes register on the piano roll? Another question is envelop. Changing the envelop properties, attack decay, and such, does this apply for every note, or for the entire sequence? Say I use envelop on Kick, does the envelop effect change every beat, or the entire sequence ( say I had 4 bars of notes)? Much Thanks. Last edited by Zythus; 06-17-2008 at 10:43 PM.. |
06-18-2008, 04:39 PM | #16 |
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
synthesizers in general. like give me an overview of what they do/effect and how i can create sounds using synthesizers
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06-18-2008, 05:05 PM | #17 |
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Re: Need help or tips with FL studio?
Something that's always annoyed me in FL:
Say I'm in record move and I'm doing some on the fly knob twisting for stuff like cutoff, resonance etc. and I decided I didn't like it. How the hell do I remove what I just twisted without opening up a clone synth and dumping my notes into it? Every time I set it to record mode and do something like holding the knob down, it just makes it even worse.
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06-18-2008, 05:22 PM | #18 |
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Cornandbeans would probably give a more through definition and application, but heres mine.
Synthesizers, or Synths for short, is an instrument, like your piano, or your flute, or your trumpet, only that its electronic, with usually a digital interface. Think of it as your computer. Now, synths have many methods of input, including but not limited to : piano keyboards, guitar strings, etc. but predominately a piano keyboard. You can think of this method of input as your keyboard for your computer. Notes played on your input is not sound, but electric signals or pulses. The Synth which your input is attached to uses the signals and subject them to a sound that you want to emulate, meaning, you can use a piano keyboard and press the C key. The output of the Synth (Speaker or headphones) can be the C key played by the sound of a flute, the kick of a drum, or even a sound you distorted to not sound like any specific instrument. A Synthesizer is a piece of hardware, it is usually a bit more bulky than a piano with intricacies of knobs, levers, switches and maybe a touch screen. A softsynth on the other hand, is a piece of software you can run on your computer or as a VSTi plugin to your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). FL studio has a few softsynths, such as Poizone, Toxic Biohazard, and Sytrus. These are just as good, if not better, than hardware synths due to their compact "size" and their versatility. Now some things about using a Synthesizer. Synths vary in GUI (graphic user interfaces). They might look different from each other, but they usually have the same assortment of knobs and such to create the same function. After inputting a note, the synth reads it and plays it out for you. It is your discretion how you want to enhance and change the note sound. With practice, you can change a child's voice into a weezy old man's. |
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Thats true, it is my question too. There should be a button called "Reset back to default" on the channel options. Well...maybe Ctrl+Alt+Z until next morning? I tried. |
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*if the reason you don't use automation clips is because you're using an external VST(i) and don't know how to make automation clips (this particular problem bugged me for a LONG time), I can make a quick tut on how to do that. This confused me for a while so I'm just assuming it's confusing other people. Edit: thumbnailed to save space. Yeah, it's pretty obvious, but maybe it'll help someone, at least.
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