Hello guys, welcome to this video! We are going to see how to make
very personalized tracks with the newest
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Watch this video if you already know the very basis for this software.
First of all, while creating your project, you start making each
melody, bassline, and so on. These can be made putting on and off the
each channel. However, you can further edit channels, using the
options in the top right corner. Select a channel clicking next to its name,
then, click on
selected. In this mini-piano roll you can edit the tone and the note of each step.
Clicking on other steps inactive will make them on in the pattern. The default
tone is indicated through a
the piano roll on higher or lower notes. Click again on the
Next to it you have the
in time. Scroll the bar to choose the property. Then drag the columns height
to change value. Each column is a channel step. Keep your pattern played in loop
to hear how it changes meanwhile.
A deeper way to edit these channels is using the
third button from the left, in your corner. This works just like the
but more into deep and in detail. You can work in the Piano Roll in the same
way seen for the
left corner, that make the same functions. What does change is that you are not
going to spread patterns, but
You can change anytime which channel to edit. Just click next to the
the title and choose the channel. So use the
notes. These are described according to the music standards. The letter means the
note, the number the octave in the scale. The higher is such note, the higher is the
frequency in output. Notes can be moved if you drag them. You can edit their length
editing their edges. To avoid snappings, just
In this window you can personalize each note. Below the
a sort of diagram. This describes, for each note added, the value of the property
chosen above, next to che channel name, under the first list. So if you choose
velocity
If you want to edit properties throughout the whole channel, select one of the
Channel Properties
Make sure to play your channel on and on. With the
listen to how the channel changes at each note. When you are done, just close
the
it is described through the structure inserted through the
Make sure to respect the beats per bar that the pattern has. If you put a note too
much far in time, the pattern risks to last more than its own beats per bar set.
And this is a problem, because the other channels, set with the pattern's original
duration, stay off until the long channel will finish its duration. So keep in mind
to put such long channels in new patterns, and totally on their own and aside.
You have ready presets to make great loops in the
window
icon. Remember to put off any active step in the channel that is going to have notes
through the
steps made active. Plus, you won't be able to see the piano notes in the pattern.
You can edit your patterns much deeper using the
the fifth icon from the left. The
you three main kind of outputs. The
with its channels. Then you have the
Each slot is a
how is the intensity.
select one from the opened pattern and right-click on a slot and go to
Selected Channels
Very important to edit channels and add effects to them, is how to use
You have the
different percentages
slots
slots in the Mixer. Click then on the icon in slots you want to add this channel. A
knob
transferred in such slot. In the same slot, you can add a percentage of another channel.
Just select it, and activate the knob on the same
actually
Send slots, but on
Below each slot, you can edit such channels imported. The semi circumference sets
the
The vertical bar sets the
with right stereo channel and positive with negative waveform amplitudes.
The
Click on it and choose how to put such delay, and insert values. Use
the effect. On the right you find the
and plugins to the channel selected in the Mixer. The left arrow on the right will
show you the full list of all effects and editings you can add.
To have a general overlook on
Once the effect is added, this will occupy one of the seven rows. On the right you can
turn on and off such effect, and through the knob you can make louder or less
the effect itself in output.
The
all to add a
your mouse directly on the graph shown.
Very and very useful are the
Go in your
Mixer, and the
In FL is very common to change properties in time. For example, let's see how
to change a channel volume in time. There are two ways to do this. The easiest
way is to right-click on any property and go to
with all knobs, buttons, icons you have in FL.
The new window
selected, and represented in the title - in this case the volume - has to change
in time. Mind that such graph can be changed according to the kind of property to
edit. For example
continuous but
channel. Some others, like the
In the top left corner you need to keep some buttons in mind. The
spreads the graph
Pencil one
You can change the length of each grid cell by going on the
To delete the graph drawn and make all original, just use the
select parts or the whole graph.
However, using
is used
inserted. So the effect is applied whether if the channel is played in
in
automation clips
Let's change volume and vary it again. You can do it in many ways, let's pick the
volume knob in the pattern. Right-click on it and go to
can be done with any property, just like the
a new channel will appear, in different color. This is not an usual channel that has
sound or output.
Open the
clip is added in a track in the playlist. You can manage it like a normal pattern.
Its title describes where the automation is acting: there is the channel name, and
then its property modified. You can edit its graph working directly with the mouse.
The
edited dragging the point itself. Between two light points, you find other points that
let you set better the
more light points and set personalized graphs. Right-click on a light point to
delete it or set partcular shapes you have in the list. Otherwise you can go to
Settings
You can create automation clips on automation clips, indeed
let's suppose to vary the automation graph in time. Go to
create an automation clip for the frequency, with the
graph and make it increasing. If you play the song, you will see the frequency
oscillation
automation clips can have automation clips linked
Very well, this is all! Check our other videos in this show to go on with effects and
beats! Thanks for watching!