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When I link a selected channel to a track on the mixer, I have the problem of removing that link to the track. I've looked around, but to no success have I found anything. How do I remove a selected channel linked to a track?

how to import sound samples into the FL's Browser?

At 2/21/09 09:50 PM, liqourish wrote: how to import sound samples into the FL's Browser?

Go to the sample, right click and select "copy".

Then follow this filepath:
C:/Program Files/Image-line/FL Studio 8/Data/Patches

At this point, I would recommend selecting "User" because that's what I normally use to hold all my samples.

After that, right click and select "Paste". And now you have added samples to FL Studio.

Secondary method is as follows:

In the general settings, there's a page that allows you to select extra folders to be read by the built-in browser in FL Studio. Using that, add the folder with the samples in it to the browser.

The Time-Wasting Disorganized method

In the sampler window (or audio clip window, or edison window, whichever one you're using), browse from there and add the sample.

Of course, if you're asking how to actually get new samples that you don't already have in your computer, you're going to have to download those of course. I would recommend checking out the audio forum rules section for some good beginner's tips to good VST sites and such. If you want to know where I get my samples, soundfonts, and VSTs, shoot me a PM. BTW, all my stuff is freeware.

Go to the sample, right click and select "copy".

Then follow this filepath:
C:/Program Files/Image-line/FL Studio 8/Data/Patches

At this point, I would recommend selecting "User" because that's what I normally use to hold all my samples.

After that, right click and select "Paste". And now you have added samples to FL Studio.

lol thnx, alil too detailed. a simple "copy and paste samples into XXXX directory" would have done good xD

It depends on what you mean by that. By you saying "short synth", I'm assuming that you're having problems getting a nice, solid lead sound.

You may want to explore the parameters of your synthesizer. Some of them, such as the sustain and decay parameters, will cut your synth short when set a certain way.

I'm still not totally certain what trouble you're having, though. Could you give more details?

I've had fruityloops for a while and I could never get anything good out of it. Can someone plz help me!

Of course, if you're asking how to actually get new samples that you don't already have in your computer, you're going to have to download those of course. I would recommend checking out the audio forum rules section for some good beginner's tips to good VST sites and such. If you want to know where I get my samples, soundfonts, and VSTs, shoot me a PM. BTW, all my stuff is freeware.

Sorry... I may be slow ... or lazy... but I've checked the rules sections and I can't find the part for good VST sites... Can someone re-direct me. I'm in the process of learning FL but jeez... it's hard to find good samples thus making it hard to learn and be productive. I might stick to Reason in the end.

Could like maybe someone could add me on msn and give me a small tut for making fast technos and not slow 0.o???

Dang, I was going to start making a song in FL Studio today, and when I finished some patterns, I was going to put it into the playlist. But then, something happened, and the playlist turned into something... that I can't handle. It's not like you put in bars from the different patterns, it's just large bars that... doesn't work! Can someone please tell me how to fix it?

Thanks in advance!

Nvm, I solved the problem. The pattern blocks was hided:P

So I looked through some of these posts(Okay, okay, very few posts... it's 104 pages... GEEZ!) And all I could find FLstudio tutorial wise was a few outdated links. Anyone have any current tutorial information? I've been a huge anonymous fan for a while. and have recently gotten some of the basics of FL down. Now I'm wanting to delve deeper.

TL;DR I need Tutorials pleez!?

At 2/22/09 05:36 PM, Edwardthehollow wrote: So I looked through some of these posts(Okay, okay, very few posts... it's 104 pages... GEEZ!) And all I could find FLstudio tutorial wise was a few outdated links. Anyone have any current tutorial information? I've been a huge anonymous fan for a while. and have recently gotten some of the basics of FL down. Now I'm wanting to delve deeper.

TL;DR I need Tutorials pleez!?

WarBeats has some really good tutorials, I'd recommend going through them. There are also some tutorials listed in this blog that might have some use to you.

And of course there's always Google-ing or going on Youtube to find tutorials on specific things.

could someone explain compression (FL compressor, multiband compressor FX)? hows it wwork? whats it do? and how to use it? examples well apreciated :D

from what i hear it makes the sound pump or pulsate. never really used it but someone recommended that i do learn to use it,

At 2/23/09 12:02 PM, liqourish wrote: could someone explain compression (FL compressor, multiband compressor FX)? hows it wwork? whats it do? and how to use it? examples well apreciated :D

from what i hear it makes the sound pump or pulsate. never really used it but someone recommended that i do learn to use it,

Think of compressors is like your grandma with you in the car. You are listening to your favorite music, and everytime it gets loud, you're grandma turns the volume down, when it gets quieter, she turns it back up. The attack of a compressor is how fast she turns the volume knob, the release is how fast she turns it back up. The threshold is the limit at which your grandma thinks it's too loud.
That is the basic function of a compressor. it 'compresses' the sound. The overall volume can thereby be raised. A limiter is a very HARD compressor more or less.
The 'pulsing' effect is achieved by sidechaining. the compressor is triggered by another source.
In the grandma context:
Your grandma is in your car again, this time she's listening to her iPod. Now your favorite music is on in the car, but your grandma is listening to oompa oompa music. (lol). Everytime it gets too loud for her, instead of turning her iPod down, she turns your car radio down and back up.

Get it? :D

At 2/23/09 12:13 PM, CWN wrote:

At 2/23/09 12:02 PM, liqourish wrote: could someone explain compression (FL compressor, multiband compressor FX)? hows it wwork? whats it do? and how to use it? examples well apreciated :D

from what i hear it makes the sound pump or pulsate. never really used it but someone recommended that i do learn to use it,

Think of compressors is like your grandma with you in the car. You are listening to your favorite music, and everytime it gets loud, you're grandma turns the volume down, when it gets quieter, she turns it back up. The attack of a compressor is how fast she turns the volume knob, the release is how fast she turns it back up. The threshold is the limit at which your grandma thinks it's too loud.
That is the basic function of a compressor. it 'compresses' the sound. The overall volume can thereby be raised. A limiter is a very HARD compressor more or less.
The 'pulsing' effect is achieved by sidechaining. the compressor is triggered by another source.
In the grandma context:
Your grandma is in your car again, this time she's listening to her iPod. Now your favorite music is on in the car, but your grandma is listening to oompa oompa music. (lol). Everytime it gets too loud for her, instead of turning her iPod down, she turns your car radio down and back up.

Get it? :D

I think you've got attack and release wrong. Isn't attack how fast the volume goes up and release how fast it goes down.

The higher the attack, the faster (in milliseconds) you hear the sound. The faster the release, the faster it fades away. If your release is slow, the sound takes more time to fade away.

At 2/22/09 11:57 AM, Neons wrote: Could like maybe someone could add me on msn and give me a small tut for making fast technos and not slow 0.o???

What you want is the BPM selector. It's in the top bar and by default, it's set to 140 BPM every time you start a new project. Scroll that number by clicking on it to change the tempo of the song. I can't help you more than that because everything else about making "fast" techno should apply to "slow" techno too, I guess.

At 2/21/09 09:28 PM, Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud wrote: When I link a selected channel to a track on the mixer, I have the problem of removing that link to the track. I've looked around, but to no success have I found anything. How do I remove a selected channel linked to a track?

In the top-right corner of the properties window of every channel is a number. That number selects what mixer track that the particular channel goes to. Click and hold down on that number and move up/down to change mixer tracks, or deselect a mixer track.

At 2/23/09 06:26 PM, GronmonSE wrote: I think you've got attack and release wrong. Isn't attack how fast the volume goes up and release how fast it goes down.

The higher the attack, the faster (in milliseconds) you hear the sound. The faster the release, the faster it fades away. If your release is slow, the sound takes more time to fade away.

You're talking about the amplitude of a sample, or the actual volume of the sample being played.

He's talking about the effect that a compressor would have on the volume of a sample.

At 2/23/09 08:36 PM, blackattackbitch wrote:

At 2/23/09 06:26 PM, GronmonSE wrote: I think you've got attack and release wrong. Isn't attack how fast the volume goes up and release how fast it goes down.

The higher the attack, the faster (in milliseconds) you hear the sound. The faster the release, the faster it fades away. If your release is slow, the sound takes more time to fade away.

He's talking about the effect that a compressor would have on the volume of a sample.

Yes yes! It's true. A compressor's attack designates how long it takes for the compressor to kick in. Once the amplitude of the wave is above the threshold, it will compress the amplitude to the given ratio, which is usually a direct relationship between in:out. But I have come across options for squared relationships as well.

And the release designates how long it takes the compressor to release after the given threshold has been passed.

Thanks a load.

hi i'm new to the forum and new with fruity loops,
i have the fruity loops 7 version and i'm managing well, but I've got a question.
When I make a sound and I tell it to continue 1 bar long then how do i stop it when it continous when it shouldnt? for example i'm trying to make dubstep/dnb and i made a intro ( dnb beats with snare etc but also with a melody) but this melody( not the drums) keeps continouing so when i paste something after it you still here the melody
hope you can help me and understand me

At 2/26/09 06:01 AM, frederiklettens wrote: hi i'm new to the forum and new with fruity loops,
i have the fruity loops 7 version and i'm managing well, but I've got a question.
When I make a sound and I tell it to continue 1 bar long then how do i stop it when it continous when it shouldnt? for example i'm trying to make dubstep/dnb and i made a intro ( dnb beats with snare etc but also with a melody) but this melody( not the drums) keeps continouing so when i paste something after it you still here the melody
hope you can help me and understand me

I don't know if I understood right but, right click the melody instrument and use the piano roll instead of the step sequencer. You can alter the lengths of notes in the piano roll as opposed to the step sequencer.

At 2/26/09 11:19 AM, xKore wrote:

At 2/26/09 06:01 AM, frederiklettens wrote: hi i'm new to the forum and new with fruity loops,
i have the fruity loops 7 version and i'm managing well, but I've got a question.
When I make a sound and I tell it to continue 1 bar long then how do i stop it when it continous when it shouldnt? for example i'm trying to make dubstep/dnb and i made a intro ( dnb beats with snare etc but also with a melody) but this melody( not the drums) keeps continouing so when i paste something after it you still here the melody
hope you can help me and understand me

I don't know if I understood right but, right click the melody instrument and use the piano roll instead of the step sequencer. You can alter the lengths of notes in the piano roll as opposed to the step sequencer.

You've got it right from what I think he's saying. Just take into account when using the piano roll, the step sequencer won't loop unless you tell it to with the small toggle button near the top right corner. That's when you would want to move on to the playlist and arrange through there.

How do I copy a VST from one FL Studio file to another?

At 2/27/09 05:28 PM, GlowingMonkey wrote: How do I copy a VST from one FL Studio file to another?

Save the preset of the VST in the original file, open up the other project file and add a new instance of the same VST, then just load up the preset you saved. That's the only why that's possible I think...

At 2/27/09 07:18 PM, xKore wrote:

At 2/27/09 05:28 PM, GlowingMonkey wrote: How do I copy a VST from one FL Studio file to another?

Save the preset of the VST in the original file, open up the other project file and add a new instance of the same VST, then just load up the preset you saved. That's the only why that's possible I think...

I can't find the same VST in the new file:P I don't want to copy the melody, just the VST, so that I get the same VST in the new file. Thanks, awnyways ;)

At 2/27/09 07:36 PM, GlowingMonkey wrote:

At 2/27/09 07:18 PM, xKore wrote:

At 2/27/09 05:28 PM, GlowingMonkey wrote: How do I copy a VST from one FL Studio file to another?

Save the preset of the VST in the original file, open up the other project file and add a new instance of the same VST, then just load up the preset you saved. That's the only why that's possible I think...

I can't find the same VST in the new file:P I don't want to copy the melody, just the VST, so that I get the same VST in the new file. Thanks, awnyways ;)

Go to Channels > Add One > More..., it should be on that list if it's used on another project. And when I say save the preset I mean so that you can recall the same state of the VST, so it creates the same sound, not the melody.

Hi. I exported my newest song now, but the quality becomes extremely crappy at some parts, and I don't know why! Has someone else had the same problem?

How do you change the tine signature in fruity loops? I know you can do it temporarily in the step sequencer. But when I save and reload, everything is back in 4/4. I want to write a song that starts in 6/8, goes to 4/4, and ends in 6/8.

Thanks.

At 2/28/09 06:43 PM, DJAnon wrote: Hi. I exported my newest song now, but the quality becomes extremely crappy at some parts, and I don't know why! Has someone else had the same problem?

1. Up your bitrate when exporting.

2. Export to a better type of file. Instead of an mp3, export as a wav.

3. Make sure your song is not peaking out anywhere. If it is, it will cause clipping. Thus leading to a lot of gross little nasties in your song's sound.

At 2/28/09 07:39 PM, Gravey1 wrote: How do you change the tine signature in fruity loops? I know you can do it temporarily in the step sequencer. But when I save and reload, everything is back in 4/4. I want to write a song that starts in 6/8, goes to 4/4, and ends in 6/8.

Thanks.

Personally, I just edit the playlist function so that it doesn't arrange the patterns by bar, but rather by beat or even step when I'm feeling extra crazy.
There's a control that changes the time signature in the options menu under the tab "project". I actually stumbled on it recently, but it's not really useful if you're composing in multiple time sigs. There's no way to automate it/edit the events on it, so it won't change in the middle of the song. That's why I use my first method all the time.

how do you record *internal* automation through FL? i'm too lazy to actively RTFM manual this time, thanks. i'm assuming this is possible.

Ok, so I'm trying to learn something about Mastering, I guess. I'm trying to make it so that the end of a song slowly tapers off, but I can't really figure out how to do it. Anyone have any ideas?