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Using Layers in FLStudio 7
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FLstudio's native sampling capabilities are vastly underestimated by most.
Layers are one of the most intuitive and useful tools presented to the FL7 user.
Layers can route an internal control signal to multiple VSTs or native instruments, giving you the opportunity to make big, big sounds on the cheap by just stringing together a few smaller instruments- get used to this and you'll never reach for a big polysynth like Albino or Absynth ever again.
*To layer several synths:*
1. create several synths- whatever you want.
2. create a "Layer" by right clicking on any track in the step sequencer and going to *Insert- Layer*
3. Click on the Layer track to bring up its Channel Settings box.
4. Back in the step sequencer, right click on the little green selection boxes(see picture) to select the ones you want controlled by the layer.
5. Back in the Channel Settings box(for your layer) click the "*set children*" box.
This is pretty much the default use of the Layer. Remember, you can modulate each track independently, and route each to a different FX channel.
Where you selected *set children* theres a tiny drop down menu to the left. Using the *Split Children* option, you can have each individual instrument mapped to its own key- useful for drum sounds. Using the *Group Children* option, you can make all the instruments in the Layer into a group you can view separately. FL7 can be difficult to keep organized, and groups are a great way to do it.
If you need to map a set of drum sounds to a *specific* key:
1 set up the Layer the same way.
2 in each channel's sampler, open the *Misc* tab.
3. left click to set the *zone*(key or keys which will trigger)
4. right click the same key(or any you want, for pitch change) to make this key the root pitch.
Now your Layer will trigger different sounds on the keys you've selected. I typically do this to mix my own sampled sounds with a drum kit multi-sample.
You could also do this to make a prepared piano, or to add a click transient to the beginning of sounds in the lower register of a sampler. | |
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06/14/07
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deltasleep
Yeah. I hesitate to question EM's decisions- but deleting Tips & Tricks was dumb.
06/15/07
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SeanShea
No two people use FL Studio the same way.
There are lots of people who use reason and cubase and even ableton the same way but FL is different for everyone.
06/15/07
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astroid
you can do this in ableton live, also, to make huge additive/wavetable synths.
06/16/07
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deltasleep
post the tutorial!
06/19/07
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Analog
VSTi knob tweeks (for storage, so i don't lose it off the forum post...)
1. Tweak the control
2. From the upper left hand menu select "Last Tweaked Parameter" -> Link to Controller, then twiddle your MIDI control you want to assign it to
3. Enjoy
All of this (and much more) is in the FL Studio help file/manual. It's well worth your time to read it a couple of times. Otherwise, you may miss out on a lot of the great features FL Studio has.
06/24/07
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dustmite
Analog: LOL. Is that my post from looptalk? ;)
06/24/07
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Analog
it was on here somewhere, a thread in the forum i think.
the forum posts get deleted but the blogs don't, i didn't want to lose this gem before i got chance to try it out!
cheers!
07/18/07
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elronhubbard
lol. phundamental.
the DJX is 100% butterzone.
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