FL Studio’s mixer has four dedicated send tracks as well as the ability to use any other track as a send. This is fine for most purposes, but forces you to burn a track if you want to process a signal separate from the regular (i.e., not sent) audio before routing it to a send. With Patcher, you can process and send audio without using up any extra mixer tracks.
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Bitcrushing is a great way to add some lofi crunchiness to your tracks, although it can be difficult to control. Dither can help fine-tune the bitcrushing effect to get exactly the sound you want.
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Image-Line’s Slicex makes it easy to modify and mangle your chopped-up audio with envelopes, LFOs and parameter randomization, but you may have missed how exactly to get the pitch of some slices to change randomly. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make parts of your loops swoosh around in pitch, in various amounts.
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Gated reverb is a fun effect to use on drums, but is usually implemented as a parallel process using a send from one mixer track into another. With Patcher in FL Studio, we can set up a gated reverb as an insert, using only one effect slot and no extra tracks.
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While FL Studio’s native convolution plugin is usually used for reverb, it can also be used to create interesting delay effects quickly and intuitively. With a short impulse sound and some step sequencing, you can have a custom delay line in a few minutes, even adding crazy reverb to it as well.
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Although it’s quite easy to amass thousands of drum samples through the Internet, it can be fun and rewarding to make your own entirely from scratch. Sytrus is a good choice for this, with it’s flexible oscillators and precise envelopes. In this tutorial, we’ll use Sytrus to construct a simple electronic kick drum sound.
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A great way to improve your productions is by studying professionally mixed and mastered tracks. This can be done by loading a song similar to yours (i.e. a reference track) into your project and making comparisons between the two. This is especially helpful when mixing. One can learn about frequency distribution, panning and loudness. Additionally the reference track can help you with the arrangement and automation of your production. It is quick to set up, and a method the pros often make use of.
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Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+. This tutorial was first published in August 2008.
You may have witnessed Drum & Bass’s dramatic evolution over the past decade. From it’s Jungle origins Drum & Bass has now matured into a genre that overflows with adrenaline, excitement, strong production values and an intensity rarely found in music today. To think all of this began with the a spark of inspiration and some drum-solos (breakbeats) sampled from black soul and funk recordings of the early 1960′s.
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Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+. This tutorial was first published in August 2008.
It isn’t often that a simple, under-produced beat is the soundtrack to a song that sells millions of copies. Even more amazing was that Soulja Boy was able to create this song using only stock sounds that come with FL Studio!
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to re-create Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em’s ‘Crank That’ in FL Studio. This process will walk you through the construction of a #1 smash-hit and demonstrate that you don’t need top of the line tools to create a best-selling hip hop track.
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If you listen to the radio, go into upscale bars, or dance at the clubs you probably have heard Far East Movement’s ‘Like a G6′. Aside from the icy vocals from the artist Dev, G6 has a very memorable bass line. If you wanted to know how to recreate that sound for a remix or to have it as a sound option in your own track then read on like a G6!
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