How long did it take you to start making beats you like?

Chubbs

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Can you mix wit good headphones tho:lupe:
Or you need speakers, cause I've been taking piano lessons and shyt so I think it might be easier for me to play and shyt just because i can see what I'm doing on the keyboard
You shouldn't mix with headphones. Use headphones as a reference.
 

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I try bruh but I start everything I make feeling like
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then I come back to that shyt like 2 days later and I'm on some
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My beats are just like this
 

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What Should I Expect???..I've Been Trying To Get Into Producing Since Last Year But Since Then I've Been Studying Night & Day Producing & I Finally Got My Maschine A Few Weeks Ago Now I'm Just Waiting On The Rest Of My Equipment..I Pick Up Things Pretty Fast & I Got The Maschine Because It Seems User Friendly..I Know How To Chop Up & Loop Samples & I've Even Been Collecting Stuff I've Wanted To Sample Since High School Up Until Now & I Know How To Stack My Drums..I Just Started Recently Studying Mixing Too Because Of How Important It Is But It Seems Difficult
Am I Really Gonna Be Making Shytty Beats For 2 Yrs???
 

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What Should I Expect???..I've Been Trying To Get Into Producing Since Last Year But Since Then I've Been Studying Night & Day Producing & I Finally Got My Maschine A Few Weeks Ago Now I'm Just Waiting On The Rest Of My Equipment..I Pick Up Things Pretty Fast & I Got The Maschine Because It Seems User Friendly..I Know How To Chop Up & Loop Samples & I've Even Been Collecting Stuff I've Wanted To Sample Since High School Up Until Now & I Know How To Stack My Drums..I Just Started Recently Studying Mixing Too Because Of How Important It Is But It Seems Difficult
Am I Really Gonna Be Making Shytty Beats For 2 Yrs???

Expect at least a half year. BTW Software is easier to learn than Hardware.
 

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I've been making beats for a year now and my stye's always changing, but i'm liking the sound I have right now :ahh:
 
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I try bruh but I start everything I make feeling like
hot-ass-beat-clap-o.gif

then I come back to that shyt like 2 days later and I'm on some
Michael_Scott_ewww.gif
So true, one of the realest posts ever told


ive been messing around with FL for years and i be thinking i make hot shyt and come back to it a week later like.... :scust:


although lately, i got a few amateur gems that have potential (to my ears atleast)

only thing that frustrates me about "Youtube tutorials" is nikkas be explaning how they make their beat then right when he gets to the "cool part" of the beat making process, he opens up some pricey (or torrented) VST to make some hard hitting 808's or crazy trap sound and i be looking at my :flabbynsick: stock or free sample packs downloaded from Google like :mjcry:
 

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So true, one of the realest posts ever told


ive been messing around with FL for years and i be thinking i make hot shyt and come back to it a week later like.... :scust:


although lately, i got a few amateur gems that have potential (to my ears atleast)

only thing that frustrates me about "Youtube tutorials" is nikkas be explaning how they make their beat then right when he gets to the "cool part" of the beat making process, he opens up some pricey (or torrented) VST to make some hard hitting 808's or crazy trap sound and i be looking at my :flabbynsick: stock or free sample packs downloaded from Google like :mjcry:
Lol you can do that shyt with any 808... It's the processing. 808 is just a sine wave usually maybe a little square or saw. I get what you're saying, but to be specific there are def a shyt load of tuts out for that. Check out busy works beats on youtube
 

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FL Studio is my bytch :win:

grab a four bar drum loop, throw it into Feuity Slicer (Channels>Add one>FL Slicer, click and drag sample)

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  1. 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.
  2. Then right click on that button with the razor, click 'Slice To Beat'
  3. Then run the '4 Beats' up to 8. (Also, barely bring up the ATT/DEC like 10ms to clean up the chop 'clicks').
Go to piano roll, you have four chops, repeat the first two drum chops, add the other two on the 4th measure for the changeup :lawd:..

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

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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. :cape:

I've got that shyt down to a science, je suis artiste :blessed::banderas:
 
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Having a keyboard to play chops is actually better than the 16 pads on a MPC i think.
Simply cause you can use more chops at the same time on a keyboard.

Sometimes i end up using 1 chop from the Intro of my sample.
Than use a 2d chop from further in the song.
 

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1 thing i hate about Slicer is that when you want to adjust a chop you need to go back in Edison and do it over there.
Than throw it back in the Slicer and it loses the whole arrangement you made in the Piano Roll with it.

Slicer has better Filters than SliceX also.
 

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1 thing i hate about Slicer is that when you want to adjust a chop you need to go back in Edison and do it over there.
Than throw it back in the Slicer and it loses the whole arrangement you made in the Piano Roll with it.

Slicer has better Filters than SliceX also.

I'm pretty sure if you ctrl+z over and over, it'll give you your piano roll arrangement back.

If not, you can copy and paste it :myman:
 
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