Fl 11 how to turn sample chops into a looping pad how to#
Refer to your DAWs manual if you’re not sure how to do this - in Logic Pro, for example, it’s the Save Channel Strip Setting As option, whereas Ableton Live has its Audio Effect Rack system. And then you’ve got multiband transient shaping plugins like iZotope’s Neutron 2 Transient Shaper, which let you manipulate discrete attack and sustain values within multiple frequency bands.Ĭreate and save your own loop-mangling effects chains to your DAW’s library, then load them up over other audio loops when you’re in need of inspiration. Noise gates are also useful for turning a sustained loop into something more staccato - for example, gating out unwanted reverb or splash from a drum loop. Alternatively, crank up a loop’s sustain and pull away its punch to turn a spiky beat into a washy background layer. Use one to tame harsh attacks, or reduce sustain to make hits snappier. Transient shapers are powerful tools when working with audio loops. This approach is also excellent for creating rhythmic incidentals: take a fast-paced percussion loop, then shrink it to half or quarter of its original length for fast-paced trills and rolls. Use a ‘Repitch’ mode to simultaneously pitch and stretch a drum loop beyond recognition for otherworldly textures and oddball grooves. I hope this helps, let me know if you have any more questions.Get creative - and destructive! - with your DAW's timestretching. I think go back and edit the drum pattern and get it sounding right.Īs far as not being able to have the samples in 4 or 8 bars, I'm not sure what to say, set your drums out to the desired length and only play that far. Then I route the fpc to a mixer track and add some delay, reverb, etc. From fpc, you can adjust the time and pitch that the sample plays from when you strike the key. I have a basic drum pattern already layed out, let it play, then develop some kind of sequence over the drums. I cut each piece "by 1" so they don't overlap if I play another key. I find pieces that I want to play, however I don't know the order. So now every time I use it, I load that key layout. I watched a video on how to link keys in order from my keyboard to fpc plug in. I can break down a few of the things I do the best I can. I do however think the workflow would be similar to what I'm doing live playing into the playlist over drums. I have no experience with an mpd, so it's hard to comment on that. Most of my beats are using the technique you described, chopping, rearranging, etc.Ĭheck out some of my posts on here if you want to get a feel for my style. Well I'm certainly not an expert, but I'll help you any way I can. However, if you use FL Studio and a MPD and make great beats and are willing to teach me some methods, inbox me and I am willing to PAY for lessons/tutorials through Skype chat or any other program involving screen sharing. It's extremely hard to get a sample and flip it into a 4-8-16 etc bar loop, it always ends up being a very odd number or something like 12 bars when I really want just 8.Ĭan someone recommend other MIDI controllers or even other devices, even if they're analog and not MIDI/digital to chop samples and make better beats? It's really hard to chop a sample in FL Studio and lay it down on the pads and make a dope beat. The Note Repeat and Tap Tempo functions don't work, so I don't know what they do in the first place. I make rap beats and usually I just find loops and add drums and a bassline and it sounds fine since I make the beats for myself but I want to make more complex beats where I chop the sample up but with FL Studio it seems extremely hard. I have a MPD32 and I use it with FL Studio.