There’s even more capabilities that various softwares have, however I think that these 2 lists cover the basic expectations of most intermediate music makers (and even some beginners).
#FL STUDIO SWING QUANTIZE SERIES#
Paint notes (draw in a series notes, often according to a grid, with a single action).Quantize notes (automatically move them to a time grid).Grid often has ‘swing’, which moves specific beats closer to the subsequent beats for a galloping like feel.
There’s also some advanced features that are expected by most DAW users these days, many of which I cover in a later post: Piano Rolls need to do a few specific things at minimum: That’s what it is, but what should it do? Things like velocity (volume), pan, pitch etc. Piano Rolls usually also have some way to edit ‘metadata’ (information about events) for each notes. When you hit play a playhead moves from left to right and notes are triggered as the playhead passes them. Little blocks show you when, how long and which keys are hit. Each key is extended horizontally to your right. What IS a Piano Roll and what should it do? What IS a Piano Roll and what should it do?.To start with, I’m going to cover the bare basics of Piano Roll usage. I’ll be spending this post, and the following 2 posts discussing MIDI editing/entry which is mostly done in the Piano Roll. If you’ve read my website much then you know I really rev up when I see claims made about features.
#FL STUDIO SWING QUANTIZE MANUAL#
Also, im not a drummer as much as I would like to be, I play keys and program so I dont intend to do much "live" drumming since its not as efficient in my case ( which counts for lots on here too ).FLStudio’s manual has some bold claims in it…įL Studio's Piano roll has the well deserved reputation as the best Piano roll in the business.įL Studio has, arguably, the most powerful Piano roll editor available.
If you record notes unquantized ( human feel ), quantize them afterwards and then add 's nothing wrong with that but the whole human feel is out the window. If you slice a lot of breaks but dont make chops of single drumhits ( kick + hat /snare + hat ) I would not use the swing as much because you're mixing the human swing with the fl swing which doesnt always come out better or make it easier the determine the proper swing factor. When in piano roll with small quantize or no quantize its hard to tell how well the swing works out opposed to a step sequenced pattern. What does matter when setting the right swing for the proper drive is how the current pattern is quantized, this in order to hear the effect of the swing properly. I know you need to be delicate with fl swing slider, doesnt matter if you're the pianoroll or step editor. It's my scratchpad, I need this shit to work 'cause the ideas are starting to flow again. I'm using FL studio on my laptop while on the bus mainly 'cause it's a P-233MMX and FL Studio works well on it, but also because I use it as a plugin in Sonar and rewired through ProTools. If I programmed beats with Sonar, I'd get the same/similar results. In the past, I used an ASR-X with groove quantising and that shit always fell right into place. I can't get the notse "loose" enough to have that feel to 'em. Now, I've been programming beats in FL Studio recently and was working on a track yesterday that I was TRYING to do something similar with my drums (double kicks and whatnot), but the shit was coming out stiff as fuck and no amount of editing seemed to get it "right". Go there, click on "Eve (J-Dilla Remix)" - Pay attention to the drum pattern, especially right before Mos Def starts his verse (comment on how dope that track is later.)