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Welcome back to part five of Feel the Beat with FL Studio. In part five. We are going to look at how patterns worked together in the playlist editor. There are few different ways of working with patterns created in the sequencer window. The technique we are going to focus on is best suited for arranging songs and will make things easier through our later stages.
Starting with our basic pattern, we have all of our sounds or samples in one place. What we’ll want to accomplish is to have all of the individual sound separated in their own patters so we can arrange them in the playlist window.
Before we move on, let’s create some variations in our basic pattern. Right-click the HiHat layer and choose Clone. Cloning creates a new layer with the same sound or sample without the notes from our original. If we mute the original, we can now draw any variation or new HiHat pattern.
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Let’s also do the same with the Snare.
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Now that we have some variations, we can move on to arranging them in the playlist window. First, click the view playlist button the right of the CPU meter. In the top left of the playlist window, look under playlist options, select pattern and then split by channel. This will separate each layer in our current pattern into individual patters for each sound, allowing us to arrange them in the playlist window. Now we have our sounds split into patterns. We can see the channels that have cloned show up as HiHat to and Snare to. We need to unmute anything we muted in the sequencer window or they will stay muted in the playlist window.
Next, select song mode beside the transport section. This lets us listen to our arrangement of patterns instead of a single pattern looping. Now we can start drawing in our arrangement. You’ll notice that it looks and acts similar to the piano roll window, but instead of drawing individual notes, the paintbrush tool will draw in full patterns that we have made. Each is labeled as its own pattern and they appear in the same order they did in our sequencer window. Also, if we highlight a pattern or sound in the playlist window, we can see that the sequencer window shows us that pattern and we can edit it further if needed.
So play with different arrangements to find something you like. And in our next episode, we’ll look at the mixer where we can further manipulate these sounds. Remember, there are ten parts in this tutorial. So be sure to check out the other episodes in the Feel the Beat with FL Studio series.
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