how to "transition" notes

[ganon95]

i was wondering if someone could tell me how you make the notes in a song blend into eachother, an example of what im talking about is in this song

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  Kazmo - Classic Bass by Kazmo

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the bass smoothly moves from each note by kinda moving up and down in sound but without the note changing suddenly, does that make sense?

i use fruity loops 9 btw

[Chronamut]

all I hear is pitch bending and sidechaining..

[Chronamut]

the pitch bending part can be done through the pitch bend notes in the piano roll (its like a regular note but its got like al ittle side slash on top of the icon) - you put this above the note you are using and it pitch transitions it by that amount.

or you can evit events or automate the pitch knob and do it from there.

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Firstly, remember that any FL Studio-related questions go here.

Having said that, what you're hearing is called note sliding, if I've understood you correctly. Like Chronamut said, make a note in the piano roll. Then make one above or below the note. The longer you do it, the longer it will take for the note to pitch bend, and the higher or lower you do it, the higher or lower the pitch will bend to.

Then, double-click on the new note that you added and check the box marked 'Slide'. Then hit 'Accept' and a tiny white triangle will appear on the left side of the note. If you play the pattern, you'll hear the first note pitch bend to the second.

So let's say you want a note that plays C5, and in the last beat of the bar you want it to do a pitch-bend transition up to G5 and then play G5 in the next bar. This is what you have to do:

[Chronamut]

damnit supersteph people aren't supposed to know how to do that - now we will be barraged by a slew of bloopy pitch bent songs :P

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At 10/15/10 03:22 PM, Chronamut wrote: damnit supersteph people aren't supposed to know how to do that - now we will be barraged by a slew of bloopy pitch bent songs :P

Crap.

YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING.

[Buoy]

Seriously? Pretty much every virtual instrument that exists has a legato/slide button and a portamento knob. Why aren't you using that instead of such a seemingly very inconvenient note-for-note fl-only solution?

[joshhunsaker]

as SSB mentioned, this is usually referred to as either legato (less commonly) or portamento (more commonly) or even as a 'slide'/'glide'/'bend' marked control on some synthesizers.

A majority of monophonic synths will offer this, many polyphonic synths (like Synth1) also do and sometimes it can be enabled simply be setting the "voices" count to 1 or 'solo' (as per Z3ta+). Romplers less often will have such a feature so really it depends on what you are using.

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At 10/15/10 03:36 PM, SBB wrote: Seriously? Pretty much every virtual instrument that exists has a legato/slide button and a portamento knob. Why aren't you using that instead of such a seemingly very inconvenient note-for-note fl-only solution?

Yeah but the problem with that is that it slides every note to the next one. I assumed that he only wanted to slide certain notes.

But anyway, if this is the case, just go to the channel settings of the channel you want to add the pitch bending to by clicking on it in the step sequencer, go to the 'MISC' tab and check the box marked 'Portamento'. Twist the 'Slide' knob to indicate how long you want the notes to pitch bend. Remember that this will pitch bend from one note to another and it will affect all of the notes played by the channel.

Cue the ridiculously unnecessary screenshot.

[Chronamut]

yeah I use porta sometiems to add a bit of twist to my notes..

[ganon95]

So let's say you want a note that plays C5, and in the last beat of the bar you want it to do a pitch-bend transition up to G5 and then play G5 in the next bar. This is what you have to do:

i tried this and it didn't work, it acts like a normal note and doesn't sound any different

[Reaper93]

Only certain Image-Line plugins support the note bend feature in the piano roll.

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At 10/15/10 06:41 PM, ganon95 wrote:

So let's say you want a note that plays C5, and in the last beat of the bar you want it to do a pitch-bend transition up to G5 and then play G5 in the next bar. This is what you have to do:

i tried this and it didn't work, it acts like a normal note and doesn't sound any different

Forgot to mention that it doesn't work with most VST's (only FL Studio VST's support note sliding I believe). In that case you may want to simply automate the pitch.

Or look for some sort of portamento option in the VST you're using.

[ganon95]

Forgot to mention that it doesn't work with most VST's (only FL Studio VST's support note sliding I believe). In that case you may want to simply automate the pitch.

ok yea i was using refx vangard

[Krank]

pros draw in the slides using the midicc pitch grid.

dont forget maximus