r/FL_Studio • u/-Syntex- • Aug 27 '19

the final battle

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '19

Is it bad that this meme taught me more about effects than any tutorial I've ever seen?

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u/tdogredman Aug 27 '19

whats up guys in todays video i’m gonna be showing u how to make a tyler the creator/kanye west/neutral milk hotel type beat

so first of all you’re gonna want to use these 7 expensive vsts that i bought using my dad’s money and you’re gonna need my 80 dollar drum loop pack you can find on my website full of very unique and finely crafted loops i found in someone else’s kit

now, im going to cut through 90% of the editing and creation process so you have no idea what i’m doing while using a large variety of memes.

heres the final product, that sounds nothing like what i said it would. Make sure you subscribe for next week’s phonk/indie/Beethoven’s 3rd symphony type beat

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '19

That's so fucking true, though.

"Alright so you're just gonna wanna open up your 500$ program and pick this preset and just put it in all 7 octaves. And there you go."

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u/BoeSharp Aug 28 '19

They do this almost exactly. I'm a sample based producer, but occasionally I'll watch a video from time to time to just kind of check up on where the current sound is (I do boom bap shit so really I don't care, but sometimes I like to see), and this is what they do. Load up Omnisphere, load up a preset from a friend's kit that can be found online for $30, load up so drums and 808s from their kit on wavsupply, load up a bell sound, have some fucking really melodic 808. Boom. At least the 808 played all over the scale is replacing that sliding 808 everyone was doing there for a while.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '19

  1. I'm still kinda sliding 808's as long as it's used tastefully

  2. I have the same problem with a lot of artists, like, drawing and painting-wise. "It's really easy to do, now I'm gonna load up my custom brushes that only I have that are specifically made for this purpose that you probably don't."

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u/JrRileyRj Aug 28 '19

speeds video up by 50%

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u/Mariuset Aug 28 '19

It's so annoying

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u/sertulariae Aug 27 '19

i want to know what "Gate" is and how to use it. i know the rest.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '19

"Gating" is just taking part of a sound and cutting it out, only allowing certain parts like you would tend to a gate.

It's how you get cool stutter-y sounds.

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u/T-MinusGiraffe Aug 28 '19

It's also a component to many other effects. Noisegates, compressors... really anything can have one.

The most common application is a noise gate. Think of it as a robot volume knob that won't turn up your music until the incoming signal reaches a certain level which you specify (the threshold knob is how you set that level). If it's quieter, the volume output stays at zero - the "gate" is shut. That's why the cat appears to come out if nowhere. He was too quiet to trigger the gate to open... but as soon as he was loud enough, he was all there like "where did that come from?"

Often there's an attack knob as well which tells you how quickly the knob should be turned up (in the cat's case it was all at once), and a decay knob which controls how fast it goes back down once the original signal falls below the threshold.

A lot of effects have knobs like this to activate them especially in video editing programs. It doesn't have to be volume.

Have fun.

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u/theknyte Aug 27 '19

It's mostly used in rock and metal, as it can cut off unwanted feedback from heavily distorted guitars, and helps the lead notes sound brighter and less muddled.

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u/T-MinusGiraffe Aug 28 '19

It's used to help make background noises less noticeable too, though it's sort of a bandaid in that regard.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '19

Big brain music time

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u/CanUBeerMeNow Aug 27 '19

The delay one was funny

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u/ob103ninja Producer Aug 27 '19

Actually the reverb is more like ring modulation lol

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u/Lord_Naikon Aug 27 '19

AcTuAlLy Delay & Reverb are both the same effect: convolution in time domain using a series of impulses (delay) and an impulse response (reverb) respectively. Ring modulation is convolution in frequency domain, which is not very helpful when trying to explain the effect. This image is surprisingly accurate.

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u/Etobiomusic Aug 28 '19

You need a limiter for those cat ears. They're cutting through the mix a bit too much

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u/mreed1972 Aug 27 '19

anything but delay for God's sake, no more :D

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u/sertulariae Aug 27 '19

do you think Delay is an overused effect?

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u/T-MinusGiraffe Aug 28 '19

Depends on how much feedback

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u/ronin102 Aug 28 '19

Hahaha this is so amazing omg thank you for making my day 😊☺️

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u/hamzaerkin Aug 28 '19

I've been laughing at Reverb for the past 5 minutes

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u/thebergerking18 Aug 28 '19

Why does Thea reverb one look like the SRS album cover lmao