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This is a beginner friendly pictorial walkthrough to help you make beats with FL studio 12. Just getting used to a new software can be quite tricky. Especially when it is one as a bit complex as a music making software (DAW). For an experienced producer who had been using another DAW earlier, learning a new one will not be as challenging as it will be for a total newbie. So I decided to make this tutorial to save the greenhorns in the game the lengthy learning curve. It will help learners cut the craps and get right down to business quicker.Ignore all the undermining opinions of critics on pro music forums like gearslutz, KVR audio and the rest.
Image Line’s FL Studio 12 is a very user friendly DAW which is widely used for its intuitive workflow. It is as professional as every other DAW out there, and countless hits from various genres have been made with it. It is widely accepted that it has the best integrated piano roll and drums step sequencer among other DAWs. With FL studio, you do not have to own a midi keyboard controller before you can make beats.
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The step sequencer and piano roll make it easy to directly click in notes to create tunes. Additionally, the option to enable your computer keyboard as a midi keyboard is a nice feature. This DAW has 5 major interfaces. The Channel rack, Piano roll, Playlist, Browser and the mixer. The first 3 are exclusively for beat composition and arrangement. The browser is where you locate and select files, plugins, presets, samples, projects and so on, while the mixer is for recording audio, mixing and mastering.
These interfaces are switchable by toggling the icons placed by default at the upper right part of the toolbar section. To know which function each button serves, hover the mouse pointer over it to view the information in the hint bar.Other secondary interfaces are the Tool bar section, the Plugin picker and the plugins menu tray which pops up from clicking the channel rack add plugin sign. For a more comprehensive introduction to FL Studio 12 user interface, read the user manual by pressing F1 button or.Let us move on to the main purpose of this article, which is to give you a pictorial walkthrough teaching you how to make beats with FL Studio 12. I will give you a step by step easy beat making process I discovered and got comfortable with after months of fumbling around. This made my composition faster and I am sure it will help you too.
Step 1: Setting default project template.(i) The default FL Studio project template has in its channel rack/step sequencer some drum elements which is often not suitable for most projects. It also puts a limiter on the mixer’s master channel by default, which is really not a good practice. To change this, select “File” at the upper left hand corner of the window. Then select “New from template”, “Minimal”, and scroll all the way down to select “Empty”.Step 2: Create new project(i) Open a new project by clicking on file again, then click “new”.(ii) Click file once again and select Save as to name and save the new project. Step 3: Set project tempoTo start making a beat, the first step to do is set a suitable tempo for your intended song.(i) Click on metronome icon to switch it on and press play. You will hear its tick tack sound(ii) Sing or hum your prospective song along with the sound while adjusting the tempo to the desired BPM speed (88.000 for example). Now you are ready to roll.Step 4: Create first playlist item on pattern 1(i) Click the view playlist icon on the tool bar to switch to the playlist if you are not already there.
You can also use F5 shortcut button. By default, the pattern selector on the toolbar is on pattern 1.
Left click on track one of the playlist to drop it there(right click on item to remove).(ii) Click the dropdown arrow on the top left corner of the item and select Rename and color. Name it the instrument type you want to create. I use kick as an example here.
Add a color to the tag for aesthetics and easy identification as the project gets complex.(iii) Optionally, you can add an icon for easy item grouping and identification like drums, instruments, percussions. To do this, right click on Track 1 tab by the left and select change icon.Step 5: Create a kick pattern.(i) The pattern is an empty item right now.
We have to fill it up with an instrument. Click on the “view channel rack” icon on the tool bar to access the step sequencer, this brings up the channel rack. Alternatively, you can press the F6 shortcut as well.(ii) Now at the channel rack, assign the channel to track 1 of the mixer by hovering and rolling your mouse wheel on the mixer track targeting button.
Or click and drag up or down if your mouse has no wheel.(iii) Locate and open the packs folder in the browser at the left part of the display. Navigate to drums, then Kicks folder, and select a suitable kick drum sample (FPC 5 Kick), and drag to the channel button where it says sample before the step sequencer.(iv) Form your kick drum pattern by left clicking it into the cells of the step sequencer (also right click to remove).
You may copy the pattern in this tutorial picture as a guide. Now you have your first pattern playing.
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You can always drag and drop another kick sample to the channel tab to switch the kick. At this stage you can switch off the metronome.NOTE: In cases where the default rack length is not enough for your pattern, hover the mouse o ver the right frame of the sequencer then click and drag to extend. You can also toggle between the step sequencer view and the piano roll view by clicking the little button at the top right corner of the channel rack. Step 6: Create snare pattern.Switching to playlist view, you will see our kick pattern is a 2 bars long pattern. This is indicated by the numbers that span across the upper part of the playlist. Now we have the kick pattern playing, we will add an accompanying 2 bar long snare pattern to form a rhythm. Usually, some people love to have all their drum elements (kick, snare, tom, hats, crash) in one pattern like in the picture below.But I like to assign to every individual instrument its own pattern, so as to treat them as a standalone item in the playlist for easier manipulation.(i) Go to the playlist.
Press F4 shortcut key on your computer to create a new playlist pattern. Left click to drop it on track 2 of the playlist.(ii) Follow the same procedure from steps 4(ii) to 5(iv) to create snare pattern imitating the attached picture below.Step 7: Play melodious instruments.To play melodious instruments like bass, pianos, flutes, synths, e.t.c. You definitely will not be using the step sequencer but the piano roll.(i) Repeat playlist item creation processes from Step 4(ii) to Step 5(i)(ii) Now at the Channel rack, click the + sign at the bottom of the channel rack to add a new instrument from the default FL Studio plugins list. Select Boobass from under the misc section.Instruments and synths can also be added by using the plugins database folder in the browser section by the left.
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Just follow folder directory: Plugin database-Generators-Misc-Boobass. Or simply press F8 to bring up the Plugin Picker interface and select Boobass.(iii) Right click on the chann el button for Boobass and select piano roll. Alternatively, you can also click on the view piano roll icon at the top to enter the piano roll interface(shortcut: F7). Just make sure the particular instrument you want to edit in piano roll is selected.
7 Responses. oluray🙌 dandytohbad. MartinsHi admin. Please help me. I am following the above tutorial and all my instruments keeps falling and sounding under Track 1(renamed/coloured), and they won’t arrange according to each instrument even though I renamed in descending order as it is in the picture.
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It gives me headache as I cant move on. Please help.Hello Martins. By track 1,do you mean track 1 of the Mixer? If so, you should take another look at the 5th image of this article. The illustration number 1 arrow points to the tab for Assigning mixer tracks. You can change the assigned track number by clicking and scrolling the numbers up and down.
Do this for each instrument you add on the channel rack, but assign different numbers. Hope that helps.
You can email me at for more help. Joseph JayPlease I still haven’t been able to figure this part out.ii) Now at the channel rack, assign the channel to track 1 of the mixer by hovering and rolling your mouse wheel on the mixer track targeting button.
Or click and drag up or down if your mouse has no wheelI still do not get this part please explain more.Hi Joseph. It’s just a simple explanation of how to assign an audio to mixer track. Making the described gestures will change the number of the selected tracks.
Try it. sunkid on the beatpls somebody should help i want to be a good music producer.Hi Sunkid. I understand your yearnings, but the truth is that this thing takes time. Just put your mind to it and keep doing it everyday, and soon you will be there.
Nowadays, whenever I open up FL studio project files of beats I started out with back then, I cringe and laugh at the same time. So you know what I mean by time and practice.Good luck!
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Speaking of up/downlifter and frills. Is there a way to simplify how to add these in the bars. From what I hear in other trap edm beats there is a solid bass sound on the first bar. Than a quick melody. Then I am guessing the uplifter and frills is there a way to explain how to get sounds for these.
It almost sounds like in these areas sound fx sounds work well. One shot sounds.
Are there ways to get these one shot fx sounds? Are they just tweaked one shot samples? Thanks for any info guys.