there's so many things wrong with that guy's post lol
"I got a copy off my man Pinyapple" dude...fl studios is free to download off the image line website...
FL Studio is my bytch
grab a four bar drum loop, throw it into Fruity Slicer (Channels>Add one>FL Slicer, click and drag sample)
- Top right where it says '4 Beats,' when you drag the sample into Fruity Slicer, it'll originally be like 25 beats, drag that shyt all the way down to 4.
- Then right click on that button with the razor, click 'Slice To Beat'
- Then run the '4 Beats' up to 8. (Also, barely bring up the ATT/DEC like 10ms to clean up the chop 'clicks').
Find a 4 bar sample, Slice it the same way and play it over the drums.
Q2W3E4R5T6Y is the order of fl slicer notes when you're using just keyboard/mouse
the top row of the keyboard becomes a piano for all you 'I miss my triton's 88 keys' cats, in other words, q-w-e-r-t-y are 7 white keys, and the 23 is C#/D#, then 567 is F#/G#/Bb or the black keys. The chops get slightly lagged, so you go into piano roll to realign them.
Then you can take like four 4-bar loops, Slice each one, and then play around like that. Group all the Fruity Slicers together onto one mixer, and add filters or sidechain compress it.
that's the Zen of FL brehs, go fukkin' bananas.
I've got that shyt down to a science, je suis artiste
It's a free software...
People act like it should be doing the job for them.
You think FL studios is hard? Then stop producing, because you're never going to have the patience to figure out an actual hardware sampler. All the time spent mixing.
If you can't get fl studios to work for you, then you're doing something wrong, because FL studios is like a fukking jet engine compared to an Emu SP-1200.
SP-1200, like 12 bit samplerate, you only have fukking 10 seconds of sample time, and 8 tracks max unless you want to start hooking up akai s950. No effects either.
And people made the greatest beats of all time on that machine. In comparison...
FL studios, you have what...24/16 bit sample rate? You have INFINITE SAMPLE TIME. You have INFINITE TRACKS. What's this? It has inboard compressors/eqs/delays/reverbs/grossbeat/mixing/mastering/overdubbing.
AND IT'S FREE A SP-1200 COSTS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
People who ask me how to use FL, it's like...dude it's free...if you want to be a beatmaker you actually have to spend time. How is a beat made? Well it used to be sample + drums + bassline. So figure out how you can use fruityloops to give you those three things and boom, you can make beats. It's not that complicated. And once you have a vanilla beat making method, then you can add all sorts of crazy compression and effects in post.
What really upsets me is before I started using FL studios, I spent a lot of time online researching how people used it. How to make beats. Watched all the tutorials, even the shytty ones just so I wouldn't miss out on anything important. And I figured it out by myself.
Now, people just come to The Tunnel and ask how its done, like breh. You didn't even bother looking at old TheColi threads about Fruity Loops (that get made every 3 months because all the people who post the threads don't ever put time in to research, because FL is free and most of them are soulless leeches that just want the be "producers" immediately). Let alone looking up gearslutz, or audiophile threads to research what old compressors used to do, the differences between a VCA and Optical compressor, and how would you use FL studios to mimic the effects of each one.
I've been waiting like a year to have intelligent discussions with people about making beats. But every time it's just some guy asking me how to make one. A question that's been asked and answered a thousand times, but they're too lazy to go research it because they care more about being a "producer" right out the gate than actually spending time learning something for once.
