Jun 04, 2012 Editors note: Don't forget to check out the other FL Studio Tutorials articles we have If you've ever had a melody that you could hum, but couldn't figure out the notes, or if you want a quicker way to figure out what notes are in your melody idea, this tutorial is for you. This tutorial will show you how to hum a melody into the Piano Roll using Edison in FL Studio. I go to the Piano Roll view in FL Studio and choose a root note, then layer one or two more notes on top of it, and experiment until I find a note combination that sounds good. And my first chord (triad) is now created. Copy and paste the first chord and try different notes in it to find a combination that plays well with the first chord.
If you want powerful MIDI editing in a DAW, then you can't go far wrong with FL Studio! In this quick tutorial we take a look at the Slide Note feature: what it does and how to use it.
FL Studio has some great MIDI Editing gems that tend to be slightly hidden away, making most users unaware of the tools and their functions. One of these great tools is the Slide Note feature. Let me show you how to find it and let us look at its uses.
Where is the Slide Note?
The Slide Note is a great tool in FL Studio that can be used to slide a note from one pitch to another over a specified duration. Currently, it only works for FL Studio bundled instruments, so I’m going to show you how to use it with Harmor. I’ve loaded up the Viking preset, and I've added some distortion processing with the Hardcore guitar effects plugin. You can use another synth if you want to follow along.
So first draw in a MIDI note in the Piano Editor. I have drawn in a note on C2, and its duration is 1 bar.
Now if you look at the top left of the Piano Editor, you’ll see the Slide Note tool. Click on this to enable it for the next note drawn in, and then draw in another note a quarter note length after the first note on the C3 pitch, so an octave higher.
Watch it Slide
Now for the fun bit. Play back your synth and hear how it slides up from the first note, C2, to the next note, C3. Also, notice how you can distinguish the slide note as it has the same slide icon on the MIDI note.
What you can also do is test out different note lengths for the slide note. With a shorter note, it’ll slide into the part faster. And with a longer slide note, it’ll take longer to slide up or down from the first note to the second note.
Also, make sure that your first note extends for the same note length or further than the slide note.
Slide Note Risers
These slide notes work very well for risers. So I’m going to use Harmor again. It’s going to play a note, and then a beat after the note it's going to have a very long slide note over the course of 2 bars. So it’ll slide up an octave.
Now I have a kick playing a four on the floor pattern. What I want to do is sidechain the synth to the kick, so it creates a pumping effect. You can read this article here for further details on setting up a sidechain on the synth. But I’ll quickly touch on it here.
So I’ll insert a Fruity Limiter on my Harmor track and set it to compressor. I’ll then select the Kick track and then on the Harmor track I’ll choose to sidechain to this track. I’ll dial in quite a heavy compression setting with a high ratio, low threshold, and short attack.
Now when I play back I have an awesome riser section just using two notes on my synth. Pretty powerful stuff.
Fl Studio Change Root Notes
Now when I play back, I’ll have this note sliding up an octave plus it’ll be creating a pumping effect with the kick as the sidechain source.
Change Root Note Fl Studio 20
That’s pretty cool, and I’m sure there are lots more ways to get creative with the Slide Notes. I’ll leave it up to you.
Fl Studio Change Root Note In MaschineConclusionFl Studio Change Root Note 3
So that’s how easy it is to use FL Studio’s Slide Notes to create interesting pitching and riser effects. Try these out in your next productions.
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