i got tha song i wanna sample n i dragged it into FL i'm sampling musiq soul child's "love" but this is tha first time i'm trying to sample so i dont really know how to do it, my first problem is that on the beats per pattern thing on tha step sequencer i already put it to tha limit of 64 and the song still keeps repeating its self so i wanted to know if there was a way to fix that, my second problem is when i pull up channel settings n i click on ins. n i fuck with the lil area that says envelope to try n shorter tha song to just tha part i want and make the pitch higher i cant get it to work right. is there another way to do this? or am i doing everything completely wrong? haha thanx in advance to anyone who can help me
help sampling songs using FL?
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I don't exactly know what your trying to sample. But it seems like your trying to sample a long @ss part. Why don't you just load this song in a Wave editor program like Adobe Audition, Sound Forge, or Audacity (Freeware), then select what exactly it is that you want to sample, save it as a .wav and load it into FL.
Then if the sample is still longer than how many beats your using in the step squencer. Like if you have your step sequencer set to 8beats and your sample still lasts way longer than that, well then your going to have to load that sample at the bottom of the Playlist where you can load longer samples. Then use the timestretch in the sampler to adjust it to your beat so the tempo and pitch sound and fit nicely with your beat.
Then if the sample is still longer than how many beats your using in the step squencer. Like if you have your step sequencer set to 8beats and your sample still lasts way longer than that, well then your going to have to load that sample at the bottom of the Playlist where you can load longer samples. Then use the timestretch in the sampler to adjust it to your beat so the tempo and pitch sound and fit nicely with your beat.
I don't use FL so can't aqnswer your specific question, looks like some others have pointed you in the right direction.
Here's a general guide for sampling in FL that looks like it's written really well (that I had just ran across before reading this) and might help you down the line.
We're not supposed to post links here, so I will copy in the text. This is from user "OFF" from an online music producer forum:
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The Definitive (lol) Guide To Sampling In Fl Studio 5/6.
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THE DEFINITIVE (LOL) GUIDE TO SAMPLING IN FL STUDIO 5/6.
Hmmm . . .
Where to begin . . . ?
From the beginning is a good a place to start as any I guess.
So let’s fast forward (>>) through your relentless digging through all those dusty records.
Finally you’ve found it! That simply amazing record with that amazing voice/loop/breakdown/part and you want to sample it and make the hottest possible record known to man, but you don’t know how to sample in FL.
So lets get down to it. Is your sample dirty? Excess clicks, pops, noise, record hum, scratches etc? If you want it that way skip through this part, but I would suggest, and this is a personal opinion, that you work with the sample as clean as possible initially and dirty it up to your specifications after the fact.
In order to clean up that sample (not too much though) I would suggest the Waves plug-ins X-Noise, X-Hum and X-click. Use Sony Soundforge 8 or any other audio editing application to clean up the whole song, cause who knows what other parts may work when you start.
Now that you have your soon to be sampled song ready to be chopped and re-assembled just dump the whole .mp3 or .wav file into the bottom of the playlist editor. You can load up as many different files as your computer can handle. Depending on the size of the file you may just see a blank block with the name of the file appear saying that it is being streamed from your hard disc.
In order to see the file go to the step sequencer click on the sample and click the option that lets the file be displayed.
So now you can see your file. Let the chopping looping and screwing begin.
In the play list editor to the left hand corner you will see a few tools that you may or may not have used. Let’s try the knife tool
In order to cut out the part you want just set your snap to ‘none’, zoom as close as possible and start cutting.
Now that you have cut your loop or part play it on loop to make sure that you have cut it just right.
Hmmm. . .
So how do I find the tempo of this?
Well you have options. You can either count how many bars you have sampled and adjust your tempo till the number of bars the file takes up syncs (once you haven’t stretched or compressed the sample before it would remain the same). Or you can stretch or compress the sample out to the required length or the number of bars the sample contains and adjust your tempo till it sounds like normal or how you want it (think chipmunks)
Ok, now you have your loop but you want to play another part of the song under it. Just cut out the part you want to use from the same file and make use of the ‘make unique’ function. Now you can have your different parts chopped up differently and don’t have to worry about parts dropping out because they start after one another. Try it. It’ll make sense once you do.
Once you click a part that you have chopped click again in an empty part of the audio section of the playlist to copy it.
Another problem you may encounter: Hit points don’t match up.
So your snare and kick sound a bit off sometimes during the sample. What you can do and get away with without any drops in the sample is cut the sample where the hit point is off and drag the hit point in the sample back onto the line where your kick or snare hits.
Another tip: Eq
Eq out all kicks and bass, they are your enemy. Not really, but if you want to change the kick pattern and come up with something totally new I suggest you do it and replay the bassline. This way you can now have more to switch up in the song. Also to you can eq out most of the backing instruments under a vocal and put it in under your music.
Don’t forget to use your panning and volume automation in here also.
So forget about that Fruity Slicer and going back and forth from program to program.
Once you get the hang of it I guarantee that it would help you out a great deal.
Just click my sig for examples of this procedure.
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Hope that helps,
STRATEGY