The notes need to be touching for this to work. The arpeggiate tool does the same thing as Step 3 in the Riff Machine see above. Just choose an arpeggiation. The strum tool staggers the start times and velocities of notes that share a start time in a chord to create a strumming effect. This tool is great for plucked synths and can add realism to your track.
Flam is a drum rudiment where one lighter hit comes before the main hit. They are played very close together and almost sound like one long drum hit. We can use the flam tool with percussion instruments to create a similar effect.
The claw machine removes, adds, or shifts notes to create new and more complex patterns. I suggest you use it with percussion. The limit tool does the same thing as Step 8 in the Riff Machine see above. Choose a scale and key to restrict your pattern to those notes only. The flip tool does the same thing as Step 4 in the Riff Machine see above. You can flip and mirror your note pattern to gain some inspiration. The randomizer tool allows you to randomize note levels using an algorithm.
The randomizer tool is the same as Step 5 in the Riff Machine see above. Check out the separate tutorial on velocity randomization for more details. Number 3 is the magnet-shaped snap-to-grid button. If you missed it from earlier, this will let you change your piano roll grid snap intervals. The Main snap option in the piano roll will apply the overall Main snap setting.
You can find the Main snap setting in the FL Studio toolbar up top. This button prompts you to choose a chord or scale from a menu, which can then be used like a chord or scale stamp in the piano roll. Very handy. The pencil icon allows you to draw single notes. Change the length of a note by hovering over the end until you see the double arrow. Then click and drag. The note length will change by whatever interval your piano roll grid snap is set to. Now, all notes drawn after that will have the same length.
Paint lets you draw multiple adjacent notes in a row, with no spaces in between and all with the same length. Just click and drag. It works well as an alternative to the Step Sequencer, especially if you want to change the tone of drums as they are played. This button is muy importante. Click on it and then click on notes to get rid of them. A very handy alternative to this is just right-clicking and dragging over which notes you want to delete. This button allows you to mute individual notes.
Just click the button and then click notes you want to mute. To unmute a note, just click it again. Muted notes will be grayed out in the piano roll. Slice is a more precise version of the Chop and Quick chop tools. Click on the box cutter icon, and then click and drag vertically across a note to chop it in two.
The slice line will automatically snap to the nearest piano roll grid snap interval line. You can also slice through multiple notes. The select button allows you to select multiple notes. Just click the button and then click and drag to form a box around notes you want to select. There are also a few select shortcuts, which I have included in the FL Studio Piano Roll Shortcuts spreadsheet at the end of the write-up. This is a faster way to achieve the same thing.
The zoom button allows you to create a box to zoom in on. A quicker alternative to this is by either clicking and dragging in the Change note size box number 16 or hovering in the time marker bar number 17 and scrolling with he mouse wheel. This button give you control of the time sweeper. Click on it and then click and drag to sweep over the notes in your piano roll.
Click the arrow to reveal the drop-down menu listing all your channels. Click and drag in this box to change the displayed height of the notes in the piano roll. If you center wheel click in the box, it resets the notes to their default heights. This gives you a sense of how long your notes are. Hover here and scroll with the mouse wheel to quickly change the zoom. This button allows you to change the color of new notes. It also allows you to specify whether or not the new notes will have portamento or slide properties.
Portamento in this situation is a very subtle carrying-over of pitch from one note to the next. Portamento notes have a small curved line icon in their top right corners. Note sliding is also a pitch-shifting effect. For this to work, we need a normal note to come first, and a slide note to be played on top of the normal note.
Rather than playing both notes, the piano roll will smoothly shift the pitch of the normal note to the slide note linearly over the course of the slide notes length. Once the pitch has reached the slide notes level, it holds the tone until the next normal note is played. Slide notes have a small triangle-shaped icon in their top right corners. When sliding chords, the topmost note in the chord will reach the slide notes pitch, and the notes below the top note will follow the same pitch shift while maintaining the same difference in notes that characterize the chord.
You can assign each note in the chord to a corresponding slide note by matching their colors. Notice how the slide note length effects the sound:. Last but not least is the piano roll events editor. Events are similar to automation clips in that they automatically control a parameter without the user actively engaged.
The events editor in the piano roll allows you to program automated control for a list of parameters for the target channel. To change the target control parameter, just click on Control and choose from the drop-down menu.
Here are the parameters that can be controlled:. Note panning — this is the panning for each individual note. Left is down and right is up. Here, we start at B3. In this pop-up window, you can randomise parameters such as volume, panning, length and so on.
A human touch often makes for better results. To make things more jazzy — and therefore more lo-fi — you can create sevenths from each triad by adding the seventh note atop each. You can of course do much more with chords than this.
Now that we have multiple chords to choose from, listen to them separately by hitting Y and clicking on a chord or hold Alt and right-clicking. Choose whichever you want. To add more body to your sound, lower the bottom notes by one octave. Alternatively, use them as your bass progression in another plug-in. Hover over notes or select multiple and hold Alt while scrolling up or down to increase or decrease their volume. Pianists never hit all keys at exactly the same time.
Adjust the timing of the notes by hovering over them or selecting multiple and holding Shift while scrolling up or down. Even if you play back your chords in practically their original order, the effect of this restructuring will be more like that of a sampled vinyl record. Simply record your chord progression into Edison and start chopping. The same applies to the note lengths. Here, your adjustments can be bigger. Make things sound older and more worn down by adding Fruity Phaser with the Old Fashioned preset.
Lower the sweep frequency and the frequency range a little. Add Pitcher to the FL Keys plug-in. Set the speed to somewhere between medium and slow, and set the fine-tune setting to about These numbers will depend on how much of the Pitcher effect you want to hear.
Select your chosen scale in the top left. Ours is the minor B scale. This will shift the pitch of your sound in between the notes in your scale. Add a low-pass filter. Select the Fruity Parametric EQ2 plug-in and filter out some of the highest frequencies. You can dip the low-mid frequencies too.
Make the sound more mono to bring the piano to the centre and add to that vintage flavour. Add the Fruity Stereo Enhancer to your effects chain and turn the Stereo sep knob towards the minus.
Now play it on a loop, put your feet up and relax. For more FL Studio tutorials and workshops, check here. How to create a lo-fi hip-hop piano in FL Studio Twinkly ambient lo-fi piano is a regular ingredient in chillwave music and the soundtracks to relaxation-therapy videos.
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