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Showing posts with label FL Studio 12 Tutorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FL Studio 12 Tutorial. Show all posts
Using Volume Automation to adjust the volume level
As explained in the above video, click on the left-top corner of the audio clip in your playlist. Then choose the appropriate link for volume automation.
This will display the volume level meter within the audio clip.
FL Studio Tutorial - How to remove noise from audio - Lesson 19
Removing unwanted noise from an audio clip
To begin with, the ideal situation for any recording is to have a place where there is no unwanted noise.
That many not be possible in most of the home studio setups as there will be some kind of hum noise generated by a Heater or AC or even a desktop or a laptop with a noisy fan inside.
FL Studio provides a mixer track in which Inputs and Outputs can be configured.
This would be based on the Sound Card driver which has been configured in. So, we would need to choose a mixer track and enable to appropriate input as shown in the video.
In this video, it would a Mic input for vocal recording.
There isn't an 'Import MP3' option in the File Menu.
However, importing a MP3 file can be done by just dragging it from the Windows Explorer to the Playlist of FL Studio.
It automatically creates a channel for the imported file. This channel can be routed to an appropriate Mixer Track where additional properties can be configured.
FL Studio give us an option of sliding from one note to another.
To do that, the first note has to created with the desired duration. Then the second note has to be placed within that duration. A sliding will occur as soon as the 'play head' reaches the second note.
Now the sound will stay in the second note. It will stay in that until the duration of the first note. If needed we can add multiple notes in between for more sliding.
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Now let us take a look into this ‘Steps per beat’.
From the previous video, remember our settings. It is still in these. Beat per bar is 4 and Steps per beat is 1. Now let me play the metronome and record a melody. I know that each rhythm note is a beat and I have 4 beats per bar. Let me record the melody. And paste it in the playlist. Then let me make a rhythm for it.
Here, I can play only one rhythm note in beat. This single note fills the entire gap between two beats. What is I wanted to play more rhythm notes those gaps? FL Studio allows us to do that by splitting the beat into two or more steps. If I split a beat into 4 steps, then the first step falls on the beat. The next three steps fills in the gap between that beat and the next beat. And it goes like that.
Why do we need that? To make the rhythm interesting. Otherwise the rhythm could get boring. So, this option ‘Steps per beat’ specifies the number of steps in beat.
What is FL Studio? FL Studio is a leading Music Production System which can be used to compose and create songs. If you are into song composition, FL Studio might help you. Also, I hope this tutorial series is helpful.
If you are watching this video and practicing it, now make the changes as I do. Go to Options and ‘Project General Settings’.
You should see, Beats per Bar and Steps per beat. It took a while for me to understand this ‘Steps per beat’. I will explain this in subsequent videos.
However now let us learn by simplifying things. So go and change them to 1.
In the previous video we saw about Beats per minute, which specifies the number of beats that will be in there in a minute.
So let me use the drums and make a note for each beat. How does it sound? Not good, right?
However if I break them in to a smaller chunk which is repeatable? It sounds nice.
Generally the songs follow a repeatable pattern of such chunk. And this chunk is called as a bar.
And the composer specifies the number of beats that will be there in a bar.
What is FL Studio?
FL Studio is a leading Music Production System which can be used to compose and create songs.
If you are into song composition, FL Studio might help you.
12th video for the series, FL Studio 12 Tutorial. This video introduces Tempo or BPM or Beat per Minute of a song.
Now we are few steps closer to composing our own song.
Now a song can compose of variety of components such as melody, chords, rhythm, automation etc. But everything depends on a basic underlying component, which is the tempo.
What is it anyway?
Like our heartbeat, every song has its own its own beat.
However it can be faster or slower. A composer determines that.
But how do we put it in writing?
I cannot just say faster..mmm..little slower.
However I can say, my song has 130 beats per minute. What this means is, in a minute, my song will have 130 beats in a minute.