Fruity Loops: Edison Tutorial - Fruity Loops REsource
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So, I got Fruity Loops 7–if you haven’t got it yet go and order it now, well worth the upgrade– because for one with FL Studio 7 came an excellent little thing called Edison. Edison is a fully integrated easy to use audio editing and recording tool. And in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to record some audio into Edison and how to quickly chop it up into some nice samples. Now I used to record into Audacity, send it over to Fruity Slicer, and set sample points in that, but now you can do it quick and painlessly all inside Fruity Loops with Edison.
Hook up a mic to your computer, find something to sample (hit a drum, a bottle, or just clap, whatever you want) and start Fruity Loops. Grab yourself a
Shure SM57
- cheap, awesome pro mic to make some samples with if you don’t already have a good microphone) If you don’t have a microphone available here’s a WAV file I made up of my Maracas you can use to follow along.
MARACAS WAV FILE HERE right click it and “Save Target/Link as…” to your computer
First thing you want to do is open up the mixer by pressing F9 or selecting Mixer from “View” at the top. Now in the mixer choose an empty insert slot, I’ll use Insert 1 here. Then in the top right of the mixer where it says “IN” click the little box and select whatever your mic is hooked up to probably your soundcard. You should now hear your mic and see the level on the meter. Now in one of the Effects slots on the mixer hit the little arrow choose “Select” and stick in Edison.
Edison Tutorial Pic 1
Open Edison and look at the top right meter to make sure your signal is coming into it. Now simply hit record and record a bunch of hits of whatever into the the mic you should see the wave forms appearing in Edison as you do this. When you’re happy with the results stop it by hitting the record button again.
If you’re using the maraca WAV file above I made, find it on your computer and just drag it into Edison instead of recording a mic.
Hopefully if everything worked you should see your new samples in Edison like so…
Edison Tutorial Pic 2
If you don’t know how to look at a piece of audio and visually understand how it looks I suggest you hit play a few time on Edison and watch and listen as it scrolls through. Basically the flat line is silence and where ever you see the spikes that is gonna be your hit. You really need to practice seeing audio in this way to get the most out of your music creation.
OK next we are going to chop this into individual samples you can trigger in Fruity Loops or any other music loop sequencer for that matter. First, you see the little icons right above the sample–the little disk, scissors, wrench, eyeball, ect..) Those are all the tools used to edit in Edison. Now click the icon that looks like a + with a little flag by it (fifth from the right), this will allow you to set markers. What they do is basically split up the sample into pieces just like the slice points in Fruity Slicer or Recycle ect… So add a marker and drag one right in front of each sample hit. Keep making markers and do this for each hit in the file. Now each of your hits is divided up into it’s own region. If you want to demo a certain hit to make sure it’s markers are lined up right just hit the right and left arrow keys on your keyboard to cycle through them then you can play it and adjust the marker placement if necessary.
Once you got all the markers set, click the little wrench icon and choose “Normalize” this will level out your samples and adjust the volume for better sounding hits. You can also do things like reverse the sample here and all kinds of other wacky things. Play around with these tools sometime.
That’s it now you have each hit in it’s own region divided by markers. All thats left to do is save the samples, construct some tunes, and get rich off the royalties. What I like to do is make a special folder to hold all my custom samples in and find them quickly. To do this browse into your FL Studio folder on your computer, mine is at C:\FL Studio 7\ then go into the “Data” folder, and then the “Patches” folder. Now you can right click here and create a New folder. Name it whatever, I use “My Samples” and now bring up the Browser in Fruity Loops (hit F8 or select “Browser” from View at the top left in Fruity). And you will see your new folder in the Browser where you can store all your new samples.
Once you have all your markers set up click the first little disk icon and choose “Save sample as…” this will save a copy of the entire sample in case you want to edit the markers again later. Next click the disk icon again and choose “Export regions as…” what this does is automatically chops and saves each individual hit you made with the markers into it’s own sample. Now export these into the folder you set-up earlier or wherever you keep your samples. Open up the Browser by hitting F8 or selecting View at the top and making sure “Browser” is checked. Now you should see all the new chopped samples in the sample folder you created. Named something like Maracas - Marker #1 #2 and so on…
Now you can use these unique samples in Fruity Loops and really start to develop a custom sound library. Easy right. There are many other great features inside Edison, but this should set you on the fast track to getting deeper into using it for your music projects. If you need more help go back through the tutorial slowly or send me an email at audio.resource@gmail.com and I’ll try to get you set up. Now get to chopping and creating. Til next time, good luck.
So, I got Fruity Loops 7–if you haven’t got it yet go and order it now, well worth the upgrade– because for one with FL Studio 7 came an excellent little thing called Edison. Edison is a fully integrated easy to use audio editing and recording tool. And in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to record some audio into Edison and how to quickly chop it up into some nice samples. Now I used to record into Audacity, send it over to Fruity Slicer, and set sample points in that, but now you can do it quick and painlessly all inside Fruity Loops with Edison.
Hook up a mic to your computer, find something to sample (hit a drum, a bottle, or just clap, whatever you want) and start Fruity Loops. Grab yourself a
Shure SM57
- cheap, awesome pro mic to make some samples with if you don’t already have a good microphone) If you don’t have a microphone available here’s a WAV file I made up of my Maracas you can use to follow along.
MARACAS WAV FILE HERE right click it and “Save Target/Link as…” to your computer
First thing you want to do is open up the mixer by pressing F9 or selecting Mixer from “View” at the top. Now in the mixer choose an empty insert slot, I’ll use Insert 1 here. Then in the top right of the mixer where it says “IN” click the little box and select whatever your mic is hooked up to probably your soundcard. You should now hear your mic and see the level on the meter. Now in one of the Effects slots on the mixer hit the little arrow choose “Select” and stick in Edison.
Edison Tutorial Pic 1
Open Edison and look at the top right meter to make sure your signal is coming into it. Now simply hit record and record a bunch of hits of whatever into the the mic you should see the wave forms appearing in Edison as you do this. When you’re happy with the results stop it by hitting the record button again.
If you’re using the maraca WAV file above I made, find it on your computer and just drag it into Edison instead of recording a mic.
Hopefully if everything worked you should see your new samples in Edison like so…
Edison Tutorial Pic 2
If you don’t know how to look at a piece of audio and visually understand how it looks I suggest you hit play a few time on Edison and watch and listen as it scrolls through. Basically the flat line is silence and where ever you see the spikes that is gonna be your hit. You really need to practice seeing audio in this way to get the most out of your music creation.
OK next we are going to chop this into individual samples you can trigger in Fruity Loops or any other music loop sequencer for that matter. First, you see the little icons right above the sample–the little disk, scissors, wrench, eyeball, ect..) Those are all the tools used to edit in Edison. Now click the icon that looks like a + with a little flag by it (fifth from the right), this will allow you to set markers. What they do is basically split up the sample into pieces just like the slice points in Fruity Slicer or Recycle ect… So add a marker and drag one right in front of each sample hit. Keep making markers and do this for each hit in the file. Now each of your hits is divided up into it’s own region. If you want to demo a certain hit to make sure it’s markers are lined up right just hit the right and left arrow keys on your keyboard to cycle through them then you can play it and adjust the marker placement if necessary.
Once you got all the markers set, click the little wrench icon and choose “Normalize” this will level out your samples and adjust the volume for better sounding hits. You can also do things like reverse the sample here and all kinds of other wacky things. Play around with these tools sometime.
That’s it now you have each hit in it’s own region divided by markers. All thats left to do is save the samples, construct some tunes, and get rich off the royalties. What I like to do is make a special folder to hold all my custom samples in and find them quickly. To do this browse into your FL Studio folder on your computer, mine is at C:\FL Studio 7\ then go into the “Data” folder, and then the “Patches” folder. Now you can right click here and create a New folder. Name it whatever, I use “My Samples” and now bring up the Browser in Fruity Loops (hit F8 or select “Browser” from View at the top left in Fruity). And you will see your new folder in the Browser where you can store all your new samples.
Once you have all your markers set up click the first little disk icon and choose “Save sample as…” this will save a copy of the entire sample in case you want to edit the markers again later. Next click the disk icon again and choose “Export regions as…” what this does is automatically chops and saves each individual hit you made with the markers into it’s own sample. Now export these into the folder you set-up earlier or wherever you keep your samples. Open up the Browser by hitting F8 or selecting View at the top and making sure “Browser” is checked. Now you should see all the new chopped samples in the sample folder you created. Named something like Maracas - Marker #1 #2 and so on…
Now you can use these unique samples in Fruity Loops and really start to develop a custom sound library. Easy right. There are many other great features inside Edison, but this should set you on the fast track to getting deeper into using it for your music projects. If you need more help go back through the tutorial slowly or send me an email at audio.resource@gmail.com and I’ll try to get you set up. Now get to chopping and creating. Til next time, good luck.
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