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FL STUDIO EDISON TUTORIAL – CHOPPING and EDITING SAMPLES
FL STUDIO EDISON TUTORIAL – CHOPPING and EDITING SAMPLES
Using loops and samples made by others is a great way to get started making music with FL Studio; however, eventually you’re going to want to cut up your own custom samples to use in your tunes. This tutorial will show how to use Edison in Fruity Loops to easily accomplish this. Edison is super powerful when it comes to audio editing and sample creation. If you have been using another external application or are new to editing, it would be wise to check out and learn how to use Edison.
You might already have a piece of audio that you want to chop into loops or samples, but if not here’s a small loop that I used making this tutorial you can use.
EDISON TUTORIAL EXAMPLE LOOP
Right click, choose Save As, and save it to your desktop or somewhere else you can locate it.
Start up a new FL Studio session and put Edison in an insert slot in the mixer.
click to enlarge
Now open the Edison window and drag the audio you want to chop into it. You should see the waveform of the audio file.
In the upper left of Edison there is a transport control where you can play the audio to preview it. Here you can also loop the file or selection. This feature comes in handy when you want to preview a loop or sample and make sure they line up properly.
If you loop play the example file I provided, you can hear that the loop does not play seamlessly. That’s OK because I am going to show you how to cut out a perfect loop and also how to chop out individual hits that you could use to build up a new track.
If you click and drag your mouse inside the waveform area, it creates a selection area. This is how you select the portions of audio that you want to manipulate and chop in Edison.
A lot of audio work is accomplished by being able to look at and understand waveforms. So here’s a quick rundown for those that are new to them. The example audio will make it easy to see what’s going on with the waveform since it is a simple little beat with nice clean hits. Basically, the flat horizontal line is silence and the vertical lines represent where there is sound. The louder the sound, the bigger the vertical line will be. So, the longest vertical line will be right where the sound hits and then it fades down back to being flat (silence).
It might seem strange for someone looking at waveforms for the first time, but after you work with them a few times it becomes very easy to understand. Just play the loop and watch as Edison scrolls through the sound. You can see how at the beginning of each hit there is a large vertical line and then a blob of lines, which looks like a right pointing arrow, shrinking back down to a flat line. Here’s an image that explains it better.
To cut out a sample all you have to do is highlight the portion you need and use the “Drag / copy sample / selection” button in Edison
The selection in the above picture is a single snare hit. Hit play and you can preview your selection. When you select a piece of audio to cut out, one thing you want to do is make sure the edit is as clean and precise as possible. So, you need to zoom in real close to make sure that you have a good tight selection. Zoom by scrolling the mouse wheel or using the PageUp and PageDown buttons on your keyboard. You want the selection to begin just before the hit and end at its flattest part right before the next sound.
Now that you have a clean sample selected you can simply drag it into the step sequencer window and start using it in your music. Do this by clicking and holding on the “Drag / copy sample / selection” button in the top right of the Edison window then dragging your mouse cursor into the empty space above or below the other channels in the step sequencer.
Add some notes to the step sequencer and you can here that it is playing your new custom sample. You can now use it as you would any other sample you have. This is great if you want to pull out individual hits, but what if you want a larger portion or loop. You could just repeat the above steps using a bigger selection of the audio and make one big loop sample. But I’m going to show you an even more powerful way to cut out a loop that includes markers, so you can put it into Fruity Slicer and have better control of the loop. Using Edison in FL Studio makes marking and chopping loops simple.
Before you drag a loop selection into a channel or Fruity Slicer you want to set markers. You do this by making a selection within the loop you want and pressing the M key. A little window will pop up where you can name each marker if you want or just hit enter and the markers will get generic names of Marker #1, Marker #2, Marker #3, ect.
How you divide up your markers is up to you, here I just put a marker on each hit of the loop. You could also do it only on down beats or any other way you’d want. I find marking each hit to give me the most options later when I put the loop into Slicer to manipulate and trigger the sections.
After laying out all the markers insert a Fruity Slicer into the step sequencer, make a selection around the entire loop you want to use, then drag and drop from the “Drag / copy sample / selection” button into the Slicer.
Now that your custom loop is marked and put in the Fruity Slicer you can see that it is sliced according to the markers you placed. This allows you to trigger each slice from the piano roll or MIDI keyboard along with a bunch of other fun ways to manipulate the loop. I’m planning on making a FL Studio Fruity Slicer tutorial in the near future, so stay tuned. This tutorial should enable you to start chopping up and working with your own loops and samples from any audio source and using them in your Fruity Loops Studio audio projects. Good luck with your creations.
FL STUDIO – FRUITY LOOPS – TUTORIAL RESOURCE
Using loops and samples made by others is a great way to get started making music with FL Studio; however, eventually you’re going to want to cut up your own custom samples to use in your tunes. This tutorial will show how to use Edison in Fruity Loops to easily accomplish this. Edison is super powerful when it comes to audio editing and sample creation. If you have been using another external application or are new to editing, it would be wise to check out and learn how to use Edison.
You might already have a piece of audio that you want to chop into loops or samples, but if not here’s a small loop that I used making this tutorial you can use.
EDISON TUTORIAL EXAMPLE LOOP
Right click, choose Save As, and save it to your desktop or somewhere else you can locate it.
Start up a new FL Studio session and put Edison in an insert slot in the mixer.
click to enlarge
Now open the Edison window and drag the audio you want to chop into it. You should see the waveform of the audio file.
In the upper left of Edison there is a transport control where you can play the audio to preview it. Here you can also loop the file or selection. This feature comes in handy when you want to preview a loop or sample and make sure they line up properly.
If you loop play the example file I provided, you can hear that the loop does not play seamlessly. That’s OK because I am going to show you how to cut out a perfect loop and also how to chop out individual hits that you could use to build up a new track.
If you click and drag your mouse inside the waveform area, it creates a selection area. This is how you select the portions of audio that you want to manipulate and chop in Edison.
A lot of audio work is accomplished by being able to look at and understand waveforms. So here’s a quick rundown for those that are new to them. The example audio will make it easy to see what’s going on with the waveform since it is a simple little beat with nice clean hits. Basically, the flat horizontal line is silence and the vertical lines represent where there is sound. The louder the sound, the bigger the vertical line will be. So, the longest vertical line will be right where the sound hits and then it fades down back to being flat (silence).
It might seem strange for someone looking at waveforms for the first time, but after you work with them a few times it becomes very easy to understand. Just play the loop and watch as Edison scrolls through the sound. You can see how at the beginning of each hit there is a large vertical line and then a blob of lines, which looks like a right pointing arrow, shrinking back down to a flat line. Here’s an image that explains it better.
To cut out a sample all you have to do is highlight the portion you need and use the “Drag / copy sample / selection” button in Edison
The selection in the above picture is a single snare hit. Hit play and you can preview your selection. When you select a piece of audio to cut out, one thing you want to do is make sure the edit is as clean and precise as possible. So, you need to zoom in real close to make sure that you have a good tight selection. Zoom by scrolling the mouse wheel or using the PageUp and PageDown buttons on your keyboard. You want the selection to begin just before the hit and end at its flattest part right before the next sound.
Now that you have a clean sample selected you can simply drag it into the step sequencer window and start using it in your music. Do this by clicking and holding on the “Drag / copy sample / selection” button in the top right of the Edison window then dragging your mouse cursor into the empty space above or below the other channels in the step sequencer.
Add some notes to the step sequencer and you can here that it is playing your new custom sample. You can now use it as you would any other sample you have. This is great if you want to pull out individual hits, but what if you want a larger portion or loop. You could just repeat the above steps using a bigger selection of the audio and make one big loop sample. But I’m going to show you an even more powerful way to cut out a loop that includes markers, so you can put it into Fruity Slicer and have better control of the loop. Using Edison in FL Studio makes marking and chopping loops simple.
Before you drag a loop selection into a channel or Fruity Slicer you want to set markers. You do this by making a selection within the loop you want and pressing the M key. A little window will pop up where you can name each marker if you want or just hit enter and the markers will get generic names of Marker #1, Marker #2, Marker #3, ect.
How you divide up your markers is up to you, here I just put a marker on each hit of the loop. You could also do it only on down beats or any other way you’d want. I find marking each hit to give me the most options later when I put the loop into Slicer to manipulate and trigger the sections.
After laying out all the markers insert a Fruity Slicer into the step sequencer, make a selection around the entire loop you want to use, then drag and drop from the “Drag / copy sample / selection” button into the Slicer.
Now that your custom loop is marked and put in the Fruity Slicer you can see that it is sliced according to the markers you placed. This allows you to trigger each slice from the piano roll or MIDI keyboard along with a bunch of other fun ways to manipulate the loop. I’m planning on making a FL Studio Fruity Slicer tutorial in the near future, so stay tuned. This tutorial should enable you to start chopping up and working with your own loops and samples from any audio source and using them in your Fruity Loops Studio audio projects. Good luck with your creations.
FL STUDIO – FRUITY LOOPS – TUTORIAL RESOURCE
March 10, 2011
Sidechain Compression in FL Studio Tutorial
Sidechain Compression Tutorial
Using sidechain compression is a technique that musicians in many genres implement. You’ll hear it a lot in dance and other forms of electronic music, but the effect can be used in any genre with a little creativity. Sidechaining is basically using one signal as an input to compress another signal. A common example of this is using the kick drum to compress other tracks to give them that classic pumping sound. Here’s some audio to give you an idea of what I’m talking about.
This is the uncompressed synth and hi-hat track.
Uncompressed example
Next is the same track with a sidechain compressor on it.
Compressed example
I’ve made the compression really pronounced here to emphasize the effect, but the amount can easily be adjusted to fit your song. Also the kick drum is muted here to make the effect stand out. You can hear how the music gets smashed on each beat, gets out of the way of the drum, and has the pump effect.
To set this up you can use the compressor that comes with **FL Studio or you can download a VST that makes it easier to setup the sidechaining. In this tutorial I’ll use the Fruity Compressor to achieve this effect.
First create a new bit of music or use something you already have to practice setting up the sidechain on. I used this synth track on pattern 1 and hi hats on pattern 2. These will be the music signals that are compressed.
Next we need the signal that is doing the compressing. Most common this will be a kick drum, but you can experiment with using any sound source. Here I’ll just use a simple kick drum on pattern 3 that hits on every down beat. Four-on-the-floor works great for sidechaining.
Now open the playlist and lay out the patterns so they play with each other as a song.
And switch the play mode from PAT to SONG on the transport controls.
Now we’ll set up the compressor using the drum as an input to squash the music. Open the “Channel settings” for the bass drum and set the FX to 1. Do the same for any music channels that you want to compress except send them to FX 2.
Go to the mixer and put in a Fruity Peak Controller on Insert 1. Also put a Fruity Compressor on Insert 2.
Open the Fruity Compressor controls, right click on the Threshold knob, and select “Link to controller…”
This will bring up the Remote control settings for the Threshold control. Look in the middle where it says Internal controller and in the drop down box select “Peak ctrl (Insert 1) – Peak”. Also directly below that where it says Mapping formula click the little arrow and choose Inverted. Then click Accept.
This links the kick drum output into the compressor. Play the song and on the Fruity Compressor you should see the Threshold amount pulsing with the beat of the song. You might not hear the effect yet, but with a few tweaks you can dial in the amount of sidechaining you want in your tune. First on the Fruity Compressor turn the Ratio up all the way to 30.0:1 to really smash the sounds. If you’re still not hearing any difference, you need to raise the level on the kick drum to hit the compressor harder. You can do this on the Peak Controller on Insert 1 by boosting the PEAK VOL control or just turn up the drum volume in the step sequencer or mixer. If you want to hear the kick drum that is triggering the compressor, just untick the little MUTE box in the bottom right corner on the Peak Controller.
You can change the qualities of the sidechain effect by trying different volumes on the kick drum or playing around with the Attack and Release controls on the Fruity Compressor.
Hopefully this Fruity Loops sidechaining tutorial helped you get your sidechain going, so you can pump up those tracks and make them start to breathe on the dance floor.
Fl Studio - Fruity Loops REsource - Tutorials
Using sidechain compression is a technique that musicians in many genres implement. You’ll hear it a lot in dance and other forms of electronic music, but the effect can be used in any genre with a little creativity. Sidechaining is basically using one signal as an input to compress another signal. A common example of this is using the kick drum to compress other tracks to give them that classic pumping sound. Here’s some audio to give you an idea of what I’m talking about.
This is the uncompressed synth and hi-hat track.
Uncompressed example
Next is the same track with a sidechain compressor on it.
Compressed example
I’ve made the compression really pronounced here to emphasize the effect, but the amount can easily be adjusted to fit your song. Also the kick drum is muted here to make the effect stand out. You can hear how the music gets smashed on each beat, gets out of the way of the drum, and has the pump effect.
To set this up you can use the compressor that comes with **FL Studio or you can download a VST that makes it easier to setup the sidechaining. In this tutorial I’ll use the Fruity Compressor to achieve this effect.
First create a new bit of music or use something you already have to practice setting up the sidechain on. I used this synth track on pattern 1 and hi hats on pattern 2. These will be the music signals that are compressed.
Next we need the signal that is doing the compressing. Most common this will be a kick drum, but you can experiment with using any sound source. Here I’ll just use a simple kick drum on pattern 3 that hits on every down beat. Four-on-the-floor works great for sidechaining.
Now open the playlist and lay out the patterns so they play with each other as a song.
And switch the play mode from PAT to SONG on the transport controls.
Now we’ll set up the compressor using the drum as an input to squash the music. Open the “Channel settings” for the bass drum and set the FX to 1. Do the same for any music channels that you want to compress except send them to FX 2.
Go to the mixer and put in a Fruity Peak Controller on Insert 1. Also put a Fruity Compressor on Insert 2.
Open the Fruity Compressor controls, right click on the Threshold knob, and select “Link to controller…”
This will bring up the Remote control settings for the Threshold control. Look in the middle where it says Internal controller and in the drop down box select “Peak ctrl (Insert 1) – Peak”. Also directly below that where it says Mapping formula click the little arrow and choose Inverted. Then click Accept.
This links the kick drum output into the compressor. Play the song and on the Fruity Compressor you should see the Threshold amount pulsing with the beat of the song. You might not hear the effect yet, but with a few tweaks you can dial in the amount of sidechaining you want in your tune. First on the Fruity Compressor turn the Ratio up all the way to 30.0:1 to really smash the sounds. If you’re still not hearing any difference, you need to raise the level on the kick drum to hit the compressor harder. You can do this on the Peak Controller on Insert 1 by boosting the PEAK VOL control or just turn up the drum volume in the step sequencer or mixer. If you want to hear the kick drum that is triggering the compressor, just untick the little MUTE box in the bottom right corner on the Peak Controller.
You can change the qualities of the sidechain effect by trying different volumes on the kick drum or playing around with the Attack and Release controls on the Fruity Compressor.
Hopefully this Fruity Loops sidechaining tutorial helped you get your sidechain going, so you can pump up those tracks and make them start to breathe on the dance floor.
Fl Studio - Fruity Loops REsource - Tutorials
December 1, 2007
Samples and Beat Resource, Fruity Loops
If your looking for some new interesting sounds and tones for your Fruity Loops projects check out DubTurbo Digital. This site has an excellent database of unique new samples, beats, and sounds resources to add to your audio. They provides thousands of royalty-free beats and a unique beat making system. I found some real high quality material on here for using with FL Studio.
DubTurbo Digital
Fruity Loops - Fl Studio REsource
Audio Interface with FL Studio
If you're wanting to upgrade your system and that onboard soundcard you have on your computer isn't getting the job done for Fruity Loops, I suggest you look into getting an audio interface. A few weeks ago I bought thePresonus FIREPOD Firewire Audio Interface
It has 8 Mic/Line inputs for hooking up all your microphones and laying down your vocal or instrument tracks with Fruity Loops audio recording. Also Firepod includes MIDI in/out connections to trigger and control your soft sythns and VST plugins with a MIDI controller; I have a Yamaha keyboard and a Trigger Finger that works great with this for real time MIDI input.
All these features have worked perfect with Fruity Loops and helped reduce my recording latency too. I'm really happy with the hardware and software interface when using this audio interface with FL Studio, and if you're looking for one definatly check out the Firepod or the smaller Firebox looks pretty cool too.
Fruity Loops / FL Studio REsource
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