How To Make Any Sample Fit Your Project Tempo in FL Studio 20

hello and walk back to the channel today I'm back with another FL Studio tutorial where I'm gonna show you how to tempo sync any loop whether it's a percussive or a melodic loop how to lock it into your project tempo so that you can use a wide variety of loops instead of having to hunt for loops that are in the exact same BPM as your project so let's get right into it so I've quickly created this project at 122 BPM using some samples from a decap Pak and it sounds like this and what I'm gonna do is hunt for a drum loop to fit in with this so I'm just gonna go into the D cap pack now so if I go into the drum loop folder most sample packs will be you know they'll list the BPM like this and you'll have loads to choose from so I like this one at 114 but that's obviously not my project tempo so if I drag this in to the project although the style of the drum loop is really good it's not gonna match up with my project and this is going to sound completely out of sync pretty awful the first thing you need to do this technique is the BPM of the sample so most good sample packs have the BPM listed but in case you don't have the BPM or is a sample you've recorded or samples from somewhere and you don't have the BPM you're going to have to find it and there's a really quick and simple way to do it up here in this little waveform icon at the top of the sample window you just left-click and then press detect tempo it's as simple as that just give it a range to search between I tend to start with 75 to 150 but you can pick a different range it'll just take a second or two and it'll say the temp has been detected as 114 don't worry about these extra decimal points here it's usually just the main value here 114 another way to get the tempo is to open up the channel rack open up the sample wrapper here right click on this waveform and Press detect tempo and it will bring up the same window as last time so there's two different ways to do that now that we know the tempo of the sample we're going to lock it in to the project so again go up to this icon here this little waveform left-click and instead of detect tempo we're going to press fit to tempo and then we go down to this one here that says type in BPM so I'm going to select that and then we have to type in the BPM of the sample not of the project so I'm going to type in 114 and press Enter you'll see that it's actually locked it into the grid now so if I press play so what has actually happened to lock it into the grid so if I double left-click they'll pull up in the rapper and in the time stretching box up here this time dial has been adjusted so if I turn this anti-clockwise it shrinks my loop and if I extend it it makes the loop longer and in this case it used the tempo information to lock it in as an 8 bar loop if you right-click on this dial you can actually select specific numbers of bars so say your sample has been recorded to be 2 bars long or 4 bars long you can just select that and it will lock it right in in this case that's really fast because mine was actually an 8 bar sample now there's lots of different time stretching modes but I'm going to demonstrate those on the melodic samples if I now want to change the tempo of my whole project it's going to give us a few issues and I'll show you how to fix these so if I press play and I want to change my tempo you're gonna it just sounds awful okay absolutely awful so what we have to do is go up to tools at the top here tools macros switch all audio clips to real-time stretching now if I adjust the tempo the project gets faster but it doesn't start going out of tune or changing the key of the project or anything like that sounds really good so that technique is all well and good for drum loops usually you can stretch a drum loop 10 15 20 BPM and it usually sounds pretty good it still sounds like kicks and snares it's not you know crunching up the audio too badly but with melodic loops you have to be careful which stretching mode you use so with this loop at the top here if I go into the fruity wrapper again and I set it to resample mode and then if I select stretch up here so i select focus audio clips and then turn stretching on i can stretch my loop here and you'll notice that it changes the pitch as well as the speed of the sample so the shorter my sample gets the higher in pitch the sample gas which is not what I want at all whereas if I go back into the wrapper and change the time stretching mode to stretch it's going to adjust the speed but the pitch is going to stay the same as it was before it's just a lot faster but it's the same pitch I've just gone back to the drum loop now and I've lowered the tempo to 100 BPM so the drum loop plays back a bit slower and we're going to listen to a few of the different stretching modes so I'm just going to start with resample and let's take a listen stretch that really radically changes how the kick sounds if I change to one of these elastic modes not really really message with the kick and the snare sounds really strange as well so some of the modes even though they might sound worse on one sample they can often sound better on another samples especially when you're doing things like vocal pitching if you're not really getting the pitch sound you want definitely try all of these different modes and see which sounds better for your specific sample and the absolute final point to this is that if for some reason the BPM is not working it's not a certain number of bars it's just not working just go up to the top of the playlist make sure that you've got stretch selected here and just manually try to adjust the loops so if I really zoom in on the sample and look at my grid you can see here's the first kick that's the first snare and there's the second kick and I can just see that the kick is too far forward so if I go you know to the end of my loop and I stretch the sample in a bit I can take a look and see whether it's whether it's fitting so the first thing I would do is zoom in on this sample and once that I am zoomed in to a place where I can really see the kicks and the snares like this usually I just cut a bit of the sample off because I don't need to see all of it I'll cut that and I'll make sure that stretching is on and now I'm going to start lining up the kicks and the snare so I can see that here's a kick here's a snare and I really want my snare to fall on this line so you can just manually line it up until you're happy this is you know quite a rough method but you know it works so let's see if this worked sounds pretty good to me so that's it for this tip it was a really simple and quick one I hope you enjoyed it I hope you find lots of use for it and I hope to see you in the next video - bye for now

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Id: u8TEcy1gqs0

Length: 7min 20sec (440 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 17 2019