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Withthe right soundfonts and samples, you can write a professional sounding backingtracks for your song. This program isnt the best sequencer out there, but it iseasier than most, and it can produce results just about as amazing as Reason orCubase.Iused FL Studio 6 XXL. (Fruity Loops) Obtain it somehow.Using Fruity LoopsTheStep SequencerInorder to understand this tutorial, you will need to know the basics of operatingFL. When you start up FL studio you should be greeted with a screen witha bunch'a blocks on it.Thisis the step sequencer. The step sequencer is where you make the patterns thatmake up the song. The different drum parts, the different ' riffs', andso on. Then you assemble this riffs in the playlist, which I will explain next.I will explain the parts.
01.This adjusts the beats per measure in this pattern. (By default it shows - andit has 4 beats in the measure)02. The pattern in the blocks will repeatwhile a piano roll sequence is playing. For example, If you set a kick to go offon each beat, but you assign a piano roll pattern to an instrument in this patternto go for 8 beats, the 4 beat kick pattern will repeat once over the 8 beat intrumentpattern (will explain better later.)03. This little slider adjustthe swing, When set all the way left, there is no swing, when all the way right,each beat is heavily accented and the notes in between each beat are kind of groupedtogether in a kind of triplet feel.04. Graph editor - Controls notevelocity, cut-off, resonance, ect.05.
Keyboard Editor - A worthlesssimplified version of the paino roll.06. Clicking this little LED mutesthe track beside it.07. Adjusts the panning of the track (All the wayleft makes the sound play only in the left speaker, all the way right makes itonly play in the right speaker) Defaults to center.08.
Adjusts thevolume, default is 75%, and there is almost no reason it should go higher thanthat. Dont just go cranking up the volumes for no reason.09. Sequencers,Add a note left clicking on one of these boxes with all a note there. Get ridof a note by right clicking.
(the note will be the root for the song, more onthat later) These are pretty much only used for drum tracks, you should use pianorolls for instuments. (more on that too.)10. Drop down menu showsdifferent sets of intruments, used for better organizing songs with alot'a synths,I dont ever use it though.11.
Little white 'LEDs' show what note thesequencer is on while playing.DrumsI know, reading this is boring, so I'll give you a little something to do.Makesure you are editing the first pattern. (make sure the little led display with'PAT' underneath it says 1)See the kick instrument? Left click on the box at the beginning of each beat.Like so.Hit the play button. You have just made an extremely basic drum beat.Mess around with the drum instruments you see here, left click to add, right clickto remove. Dont go overboard with the drums!When you are ready to move on.
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Move on!The topbar01. These little buttons switch between the pattern in the step sequencer, andthe entire song in the playlist.02. Little slider to slide through the song.:P03. Play, Stop, and Record.04.
Adjusts tempo, just click and move themouse up or down.05. Selects a step sequencer pattern. Adjusted like tempo.06. Playlist editor. Step Sequencer. Piano Roll (F7)09.Browser.
(F9)BasslinesNow you will learn how to add a bassline using the piano roll.But, first, remove all the fiddling you did with the drums, or open a new projectwith File Open.Now, put a kick on each beat, and a hihat on each offbeat, and a clap on the 2ndand 4th beat. Like so.Click play to see how it sounds. Nice and simple. Now, for the bass. Right clickon the snare, and go to Insert BooBass. A screen will appear withthe boobass settings, this synth is very basic, and only has 3 knobs, Treble,Bass, and Mid.
Mess around with them if you like, and see what itsounds like with the little keyboard on the bottom.Once you are done with that, right click on the BooBass and select Piano Roll,a window will appear, it will have a keyboard on the right, and a buncha emptyslots.Itappears a little daunting at first, but it isnt hard at all. Basically, on thebig bunch of squares next to the keyboard, you place notes. The time goes fromleft to right when you click play. You place notes just like you did with thedrums.
But now, you can drag them around, and change the notes. Make somethinglike this.This makes an eighth note play on every offbeat at C5. Starting tosound like a song isnt it? I put the bass on the offbeat, so the mix doesnt getmuddy, if I had the bass and the kick going at the same time they both take upa very similar frequency range, and things would get kind of muddy. The Kick-Basspattern is a staple in most electronic music styles.Now go to the next measure in the piano roll, place the same pattern at F5, thenthe next measure should be G5, and then F5 again, A simple I,IV,V progression.Click play. Didnt sound right did it? The drums only played during the first measuredidnt they?
Toggle the little box next to the arrow at the top rightof the step sequencer. Press play, and the drums should repeat every measure.PlaylistEditorPress F5 to open the playlist editor. It looks kinda similar to the piano roll,but you organize patterns instead of notes. Place the pattern with the bass anddrums you just made, which should have been pattern 1, so just click next to patternone, and position it to take up the first 4 bars.
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Place another to take up thenext 4 bars.Mouseover to the play button, but before you click play, toggle the little square withthe word ' SONG' next to it, to play the stuff in the playlist, insteadof the one pattern in the step sequencer. Then click play. (You can click anywhereon the blackish horizontal bar with the numbers on it to skip around the song.)MakingA Good Synth SoundTime to program a nice lead synth!01. Right clickone of the instruments in the step sequencer and go to Insert 3xOSC.Thissynth has some pretty complex controls compared to BooBass. This synth has 3 synthsthat play at once. (Hence the 3xosc).
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Press some buttons on the littlepiano keyboard. By default, this synth is pretty plain sounding.
Lets spice itup a bit.02.Under Osc 1 click the shape that looks like a backwards N, this changes the waveof the sound to a rough saw shape, instead of a smooth sine. Still sounds prettyplain though doesnt it? Go ahead and change all the OSCs to this shape.Osc stands foroscillator, it basically generates a very simple sound waveform in the shape youspecify (The white buttons), This intrument, layers 3 oscillators over each other. Thesettings we just plugged are refered to as a Super Saw most of the time, thesesettings are very overused, and appear in hundreds of trance songs. Producershave grown sick of this preset, and most hate it to death.
But, it will work fornow.The Knobs next to the osc are Volume, Pan, Course Tuning (1 note at a time), andFine Tuning (around a cent at a time, up to 50 cents in either direction). Bydefault, the Course tunning is set to have a 3 octave harmony, and the fine tunningsare all at 0 detune.03.On Osc 2, very slightly adjust the Fine knob to the left, and on Osc 3, move itslightly to the Right.Thiswill create a chorus/flanger effect. The slight dissonance between the 3 oscillatorsmakes the intument sound wider, fuller, and bit fatter.04. At thetop of the 3xOSC window, click on Misc, and toggle the box that says Porta.This will makethesynth slide from note to note, mosts lead synths sound better with a subtleslide.
The knob labled slide, changes the speed of the slide, leave it at defaultfor now.05.At the top right of the 3xOSC click on the box label FX, and drag your mouse slightlyupward, so it says 1.Thisroutes the instrument through the first Effects channel. Press F9 to open themixer. There should be a master, and a bunch of inserts, and 4 sends. The insertsare the places where you insert intruments to add effects, adjust volume, EQ,ect.
The master add effects to the entire track. The sends are a little weird.Sounds can be sent here via plugin, or sometimes synths have options to send partsof the synth to one of the sends. I will explain the uses of the sends in a laterlesson.06.Click on Insert 1.Thisis the insert you just routed your new synth too. All the way to the left. Thereis 8 things labeled from 1 to 8, these are the 8 slots for effects.07. Click onthe arrow next to one of the eight slots, and go to Select Fruity Reverb.Addsa reverb effect to everything in insert 1, which is only the lead synth we made.08.On the new window click on the button in the very top right corner and go to Presets Subtle.Thiswill change the settings of the reverb to something more subtle.09.Now addan effect to slot 2, Insert Delay 2. Set the preset to Stereo Effect,and adjust the Cut knob to a little less than half way.The cut knob adjuststhe effects low pass filter.
This will make the higher frequencies the repeatbe cut out, so the repeat isnt as pronounced as the note itself. Play around withthe keyboard some more, see how it sounds.Thesettings for the synth, and the effects.
(Dont just copy this, there is anotherstep, and valuable information in the above paragraph)Now, to write the lead. Got to pattern 2. I felt like doing a corny major happyriff thing.
(See the pattern below)Basically, its the root of the chordin that measure, the major 3rd, and the 5th, its basically and arpeggio of theCmajor chord. And then, you select the lasso tool from the tools at the top ofthe piano roll, and select all of the notes. Hit Ctrl+c to copy, scroll over tothe next measure and paster, drag the notes up to F6, so it transposes to an Fmajorarpeggio. Do that for the paste and transpose to G for the next measure, and thenF measure for the last measure, a simple, happy sounding major lead.
Now, placethat pattern in the play list matched up with the second 4bars for pattern 1.Hit play. The bass and drums should play, and then the lead should kick in thesecond time around.Theseare some of the basics of Fruity Loops. Download the Fruity Loops projectfile.Youcan download and sound effects for Fruity Loops.
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