Hi friend and Welcome!
Haven’t posted in awhile, but today I’m going to be coming at you with lightning quick and simple tutorial on how to sample in FL studio using Edison. Well it doesn’t look lightning quick, but it really is I promise!
It’s so easy, even a caveman could do it!!
Find the sample you want.
You can sample from vinyl or from online, but today we’re just going to demonstrate an easy way to rip a song from youtube and use it inside Edison.
Open up listentoyoutube.com
This is a handy little tool that enables you to rip songs off of the internet. We are the people. LOL.
Just paste the URL from youtube into the box, and press GO! It will ask you if you want to open the file or save it to your CPU. Choose the latter, and just save to your desktop.
Open FL studio & Edison.
Now you’re going to want to open up FL Studio and click on the “Open New Audio/Editor” which is Edison.
Click the File Box.
Next, we’re going to click the file box all the way to the left which looks like a picture of a little floppy disk. You know, those things that no one uses anymore? ?
In 1994, it was what you used to store crap on. Nowadays, it makes a neat little icon!! ?
Anywho, click that button, find where you saved your sample, and then load it into Edison for chopping.
Start Chopping!
This is where it gets fun and interesting. Everyone has their own way of chopping up a sample. That’s what makes us all unique! For instance, two people could make the same sample sound totally different. It’s what gives us our individuality and keeps us coming back to the studio.
Start by clicking on the “Add / Remove Marker / Region” which is the little button 5 from the right. It looks like a little corner post that you see in those new age “Futbol” games that the kids are always raving about (Not really, it just looks like a marker with a plus next to it).
Wait for the icon of the memory card to appear on the desktop.Drag an ISO Wii game backup file onto the icon of the memory card. Remove the memory card from the slot in the memory card reader.Insert the other memory card into the slot in the memory card reader. Iso standard torrent.
Chop around the drums if possible
I learned the hard way in some of my earlier sampling, that if you don’t chop precisely enough, your mix WILL sound sloppy and unprofessional. This is why most of the time, it’s beneficial to slice around the kicks, snares, and anything else that will make your beat sound unclean.
There are times however, where you can include these elements and still make your mix sound great. It all depends on the sample to be honest. Messing around with pitch, EQ, time stretching, hi/low pass filters, etc. can also enhance the sound and mask some of these inconsistencies that come with altering a song.
- ZOOM IN!
PgUp and PgDn are used to zoom in and out on the sample. This really comes in handy when you want to get that precision 9th wonder slice. The more you zoom in, the more accurate your beat will be in the end. There are times when I get lazy and don’t, and my loop suffers because the cuts don’t match up.
This becomes a huge issue when trying to loop two different slices. Time stretching (which we will get into in another lesson) becomes a lot easier if your chops are precise.
For instance, if your slice wasn’t accurate enough, the gap in time between two sequences will be bigger when trying to loop them together. This results in an awkward “silence” and drives beat makers insane (well me anyway :D)
- Use the infinity loop.
This is pretty obvious but when finding that right place to put your marker, it helps to have the song on loop so you don’t have to keep clicking play.
Clear the slice regions.
When you’re all done chopping ’til your hearts content, drag the slices into the step sequencer. This enables you to then create a masterpiece which will net you millions! (well maybe lol).
Before you do this, make sure that all the red spaces (your slice regions) are cleared out, by zooming out, and then dragging them all the way to the left of Edison until they disappear. This ensures a clean transfer of all your chops.
Drag the slices into the step sequencer.
First go to Channels –> Add one –> Fruity Slicer.
Next, Press F6 to bring up your Step sequencer. You will see a fruity slicer button on the bottom.
Now, use the button all the way to the right of edison called “Drag / copy sample / selection” and drag it so that it hovers over the fruity slicer button in the step sequencer.
The button will turn orange. When it does, let go of your mouse.
I will get into dragging samples into a midi pad in a future lesson and sequencing, but for now press F7 to bring up your Piano Roll. You can see my one chop is ready to be sequenced for a song! Okay not really lol. In reality, I would chop this up into at least 10 slices before I started trying to make a beat. For today’s purposes I’ve just demonstrated the how-to.
Well that’s about it for today my friend! I really hope you enjoyed this tutorial on how to sample inside FL Studio using Edison. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them down below or Contact me!
I would love to hear from you!
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All the best and God bless,
-Stu
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Hey,
(I'm new to FL Studio, but I already looked up many videos and kind of know how to handle it.) Now, I am very frustrated. I can't figure out how to chop a specific location and loop it to make a beat of it. I have seen many videos where people use different methods, and still it doesn't really work for me. I wanted to take [Darondo's 'Didn't I' ] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZqQT5904_U) (until 0:19) and make a beat like Cro did. Shouldn't be too difficult right? nope, as I noticed, it's harder than it looks..
I hope you can help me or link me to a good and easy explained video on how to chop a song to take a sample because I really don't want to quit even though it hasn't really started.
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Chopping samples is an art form if you believe it or not. Legal issues aside, producers have come up with many techniques of chopping samples in signature ways. Some of them are fairly standard techniques by now and come built-in wiht Ableton’s Simpler as well as hardware samplers like the Akai MPC or hybrid solutions like Native Instrument Maschine. In this tutorial we want to look at a few alternative solutions of chopping samples in Ableton Live which we often use.
The Drag & Chop Technique
This technique doesn’t require any fancy equipment or plugins – no midi controllers, drum racks, etc. It’s a super simple way to chop samples in Ableton and gets you quick results. All you need is a mouse and keyboard. I like chopping samples this way because it gives me different results and flows real nice, but it doesn’t look as nice as banging out chops on your MPC or Ableton Push 🙂
First you pick your sample and import it into the Ableton timeline – forget about the session view this time.
Next you set the BPM of your project – for hip hop beats I like to set it between 78bpm and 85 bpm. By default Ableton tries to warp the imported song to the tempo of your track. If I’m working on a sample without drums and I’m somewhere in the ballpark in terms of tempo, I prefer to unwarp it first so I get the original tempo. In order to be able to use warp markers, you need to click Warp again though and in the popup select keep original tempo.
Next step is to activate the loop function and set a loop of 1 bar. From then on you simply move the start marker to find a nice starting point for the chop and set 1.1.1 by right clicking. Then use the warp markers to stretch it to the right length.
Once I have my first chop I duplicate the loop and find another chop by moving the start marker in the second loop. You can always shorten the loop to 1/2 bar or maybe uneven time signatures to vary the timing of the chops.
All in all it’s a really simple, straightforward way to chop up a sample you like – no equipment needed. Since these days most DAWs have timestretching features like Ableton’s Warp, you can really do this in any DAW – I just happen to like Ableton.
Creative Chord Chopping
This is something I often did when OVO style beats were all the rage… In a recent video, Andrew Huang used this exact method to rework chords as foundation for his track.
You start by chopping out some interesting chords from the sample. Usually there aren’t that many open chords in a sample, so take what you can. Then start placing the chord chops into your timeline and alter their pitch to come up with a different chord progression. You often find interesting, musical incorrect chord progression that turn your samples into something refreshingly new!
If you have chopped sustained chords, like from an electronic piano, you can try the following: Place the first chop into your timeline but chop it off after half a bar. Then copy the sample to the second half of the bar, but reverse it. This gives the chord progression a less traditional and more vibey feel.
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Also: Good for chopping a transition! Andrew took the technique up a notch though. To avoid the 4 bar loop from getting boring, he added a little twist to the end of it. This helps to signal that a new phrase is coming. After the first 4 bars he copied the first chord chop and reverse it. This way the progression flows smoothly into the next 4 bars.
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At the end of the second bar he take the same reversed chord, but additionally used pitch automation to emulate a tape stop effect. With this you can surprise the listener by teasing the same end of the 4 bars, but switching up in the last second. Sometimes the tape stop is cool, but sometimes you want to keep it flowing smoothly. In this case you can layer a litte piano run / paradiddle over the tape stop.
Gated Chops
Here’s another interesting take on chopping up samples which yields surprising results you might not have come up with using more traditional and manual chopping techniques. I’ve tried it on multiple tracks already and it’s a great technique against beat block. I won’t try to explain it in detail, because the video already does an excellent job:
There you have it! I hope I could spice up your sampling tricks a little. Let me know if you have any other cool chopping techniques that you you are willing to share!
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This FL Studio Tutorial gives you a couple tips & tricks when it comes to Sampling. These techniques will help you stand out as a producer from the standard way of simply 'looping' a sample.
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