>> So we have created some drum patterns,
we have created some chord progressions.
We can't just stop there. You want to
create a track, a song.
So let's take all these different patterns and lay
them out in an arrangement using the playlist window.
Let's now see how we can create
a musical arrangement using the playlist window.
So I'm going to click over here to open the playlist.
Now in the pattern picker I'm not
seeing my different patterns,
because the picker is set to show us audio clips.
I'm going to click over here so
we can look at the patterns.
As you can see, I have added on some additional patterns.
I've created a few more drum patterns,
and I've also created a couple of base patterns.
If I click on the channel rack over here,
you can see there's a new instrument
called BooBass that I've
loaded in and I use
this instrument for the base patterns.
So let's create our musical arrangement.
I'm going to start with this drum 3 pattern here.
So I'll just select it and click and
drag on any of the tracks here on the playlist.
I'll put it right at the beginning of bar 1.
So now in this track 1,
I have this drum 3 pattern loaded in.
So I'll hit stop here to set
the playhead right to the beginning
and now let's play the song.
[MUSIC] You'll notice that it just loops the segment here
because that's all we have in the playlist.
If there was more, it would include that in the playback.
Let's bring in more drum patterns.
I'm going to place drum 4 right after drum 3 over here.
I'm going to put drum 5 over here.
Make sure it's right at the beginning of the bar.
And let's go back to drum 1 and place that over here.
Let's hear this.
[MUSIC] Nice.
Now we could place these patterns on
any track that we wish and it will still playback.
But just to keep things organized,
it does make sense to put
all the drums on the same track.
We can even rename this,
let's call this drums.
We can even give it a color.
So that's our drums track.
And I'm going to place all the
drum patterns on this track.
I'm going to add drum 2 on bar 5 here.
Now I'd like to repeat this pattern.
So what we can do is use the paint tool to
paint in additional patterns
based on what was the last selected.
You can see here drum 2 was last selected
because there's a little red arrow on the left over here.
So now if I click anywhere,
I will add in drum 2.
If I had selected drum
5 and then if I was to click anywhere,
we're now adding in drum 5.
I don't want this, so I'm going to right-click to delete
it and let's see hear this entire drum sequence.
[MUSIC] Let's bring in the base pattern.
I'm going to start with base 1 here.
This is a four-bar long pattern
and also base 2 right after.
This is also a four-bar long pattern.
Let's bring in the chords.
I'll set the chords 3 pattern and then go to chords 1.
Let's hear all this together.
[MUSIC] That's sounding good.
I'm going to go ahead and rename these tracks as well.
So I'm using this for the base,
give it a different color.
I'm using this one for the chords.
Give this one also a different color.
So now the playlist is a bit more organized.
Now aside from dragging in patterns,
we can also drag in audio clips into the playlist.
So let's take a look at how we can do that.
I'm going to look for some audio clips in the browser.
I'll open up the browser here.
I'm looking for a riser effect.
So I'm just going to type it in here in the search.
So we're looking at a bunch of
different samples that had the texts riser in it.
Now some of these samples are not
from FL Studio's content,
it's just different samples that I have on my computer.
Well, let's try out some of these.
How about this one, riser noise?
[NOISE] That's actually perfect.
Stop playback here. I'm just going to click and
drag this in and drop it here on track 4.
Now I want the peak of the riser to end
somewhere at the beginning of bar 5.
So I'll just drag this
over to the left and that looks about right.
We can trim these audio clips from
either end and make
sure that starts right at the beginning of bar 3.
I would like to add a fade-in so it doesn't start
off abruptly and also maybe a fade-out at the end here.
We can do this by activating fades,
and that's specifically for
audio clips and now you can see
there's a fade-in option and I can drag this in.
Let's bring the fade-in further.
You can even adjust the curve of the feed.
Do the same for the fade-out. Adjust its curve.
We also have a gain control.
So we can make this louder or
quieter and make it a little quieter.
So let's hear what this
entire arrangement sounds like now.
[MUSIC]
That's sounding pretty good.
I just want to make the gain a little bit quieter on
this riser and I also want this to end a bit sooner.
So I'll trim that out over there.
Let's also rename this track
here since we're using this for the riser.
I'll call this EFX for our FX track.
So there you go. That's how you can create
a musical arrangement in the playlist.