I hope this helps, let me know if you have any more questions. I think go back and edit the drum pattern and get it sounding right.Īs far as not being able to have the samples in 4 or 8 bars, I'm not sure what to say, set your drums out to the desired length and only play that far. Then I route the fpc to a mixer track and add some delay, reverb, etc. From fpc, you can adjust the time and pitch that the sample plays from when you strike the key. I have a basic drum pattern already layed out, let it play, then develop some kind of sequence over the drums. I cut each piece 'by 1' so they don't overlap if I play another key. I find pieces that I want to play, however I don't know the order. So now every time I use it, I load that key layout. I watched a video on how to link keys in order from my keyboard to fpc plug in. I can break down a few of the things I do the best I can. I do however think the workflow would be similar to what I'm doing live playing into the playlist over drums. I have no experience with an mpd, so it's hard to comment on that.

Most of my beats are using the technique you described, chopping, rearranging, etc.Ĭheck out some of my posts on here if you want to get a feel for my style.

Well I'm certainly not an expert, but I'll help you any way I can. However, if you use FL Studio and a MPD and make great beats and are willing to teach me some methods, inbox me and I am willing to PAY for lessons/tutorials through Skype chat or any other program involving screen sharing. Try this trick: Put a marker on slicex in the beggining of the sample, adjust the sample tempo to your liking, go to the piano roll and play the marker. It's extremely hard to get a sample and flip it into a 4-8-16 etc bar loop, it always ends up being a very odd number or something like 12 bars when I really want just 8.Ĭan someone recommend other MIDI controllers or even other devices, even if they're analog and not MIDI/digital to chop samples and make better beats? It's really hard to chop a sample in FL Studio and lay it down on the pads and make a dope beat. The Note Repeat and Tap Tempo functions don't work, so I don't know what they do in the first place. I make rap beats and usually I just find loops and add drums and a bassline and it sounds fine since I make the beats for myself but I want to make more complex beats where I chop the sample up but with FL Studio it seems extremely hard. I have a MPD32 and I use it with FL Studio.

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