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Reggid’s Music Production Guide How to Make Music Using FL Studio

I’ve been using FL studio ever since 2005 and it changed my life in my music productions and they were ever since a lot better. When I first started making music, I mainly used loops. I used ACID 3.0 when I first started making music. I still use it today but mainly for recording and for rendering. Nothing was original for me then, but however I then also used MTV Music Generator. I used all three games for making music. The third game mainly was loops, but however it started getting original when I used the first 2 games (Music 2000 elsewhere). That was back then until a friend sent me FL. It had changed my music for ever and my music quality got a lot better than it did.

Now I’m gonna give you guys a guide on how to make music in FL and maybe you will become a great producer like me.

First, we are going to go over some basics. We first are going to make a beat.

Here we are at the screen where the screen, now see the arrow pointing to those grey and red boxes? Those are for the beats. Basically click it and it will have a kick

Part I - Making a Beat

Here we are at the screen where the screen, now see the arrow pointing to those grey and red boxes? Those are for the beats. Basically click it and it will have a kick

See that was simple. Here is how it sounds.

http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730293673.html

Now let’s fill three more boxes.

There, now we have four kicks. Here’s how it sounds

http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730294207.html

Now we have a full kick beat. Now let’s paste the beat in the playlist.

See where the red arrow is pointing in this picture? That’s the playlist.

Now let’s paste in the beginning.

Here we go, now we got a box in. If you want to make sure it’s in place, change the “Snap” option to “Bar”. Here is how in these pictures below.

Ok, now let’s paste more of that kick in the playlist.

Ok, now here is how it would sound:

http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730345908.html

Now that we got that covered, how about we add more to it than just that kick. It would help make the beat interesting. I also would advise you to that you use a new pattern for a new beat sound just so you wouldn’t have to be making version where its just a clap and hat. Making them separate helps! Ok let’s go on to adding more. Now let’s click on the next pattern.

Ok, here we are. So, how about we add a clap? Now for a clap, we need to fill those two red boxes.

There we go, now let’s add four more blocks of kicks and let’s put in four boxes of claps.

Here we go, now we have more of the song. Here is how it would sound like.

http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730394523.html

Now let’s add a hat. Let’s go to pattern 3.

To do an off beat hat, click on the third box in the hi-hat section.

There we go. Now let’s add three more.

Here is how it would sound

Alone:
http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730624479.html

with the kick and clap
http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730623721.html

Ok now let’s add four more boxes of kicks and claps and now add hats into the playlist.

Ok, now here is how the arrangement would sound like so far.

http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730622407.html

Now, before we go further I would like to go over one thing and that would be changing the sounds.

Let’s change the kick sound. Right click on “Kick” As the arrow in the picture above points.

Here in this picture above, it will bring up a menu. Now let’s click on load sample.

It will bring up the browser where you can find files. Now, we need to have a great quality kick, you don’t want to keep using FL kicks or it will sound “fruity” after a while and generic. So samples “outside” of FL would help greatly with projects. Now let’s choose the sample “CoolBD_09.wav” shall we?

See, now it has a new kick. Here’s how it would sound:

http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730680694.html

It’s self explanatory for the clap and hi-hat.

I selected a great sound for each channel. Here are links for these two sounds:

Clap:
http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730697101.html

Hi-Hat
http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730698917.html

Now here’s how the arrangement will sound with these new sounds.
http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2730700182.html

Well that sounded better than the fruity style. That covers the beat part. Now lets move on to adding percussion.