New w/ Fruity Lops

[dakotathecanuck]

i know I am really feelin..
I-20's been out for awhile but I just decided to pick that shit up

 

[Hi-Lo]

Ok so I will admit I am fairly new to producing and i have a few problems.

1. I started makin beats on Kinetic it was fairly fun ad easy but then I moved on to fruty Loops (although I still have Kinetic) but why can't i get my beats to sound like anything but robotic crap? any pointers.

2. I live down south (although origanally from Toronto) and it shows I CAN'T make any "Southern" sounding beats.. you kknow the ones w/ that jump, that get hype feel..
any tips?

3. Does any body have any sites w/ free downloadable loops or sample for either fruity loops or kinetic?

It just takes time man. When I started using FL about 6 months ago I was making the most horrendous, robotic beats you can imagine. But once you get over that hump, and it just happens all of a sudden, you start to understand how to manipulate the program to do what you want. I know that sounds like frustrating advice but its just the truth...keep making a few beats each day, and keep grinding. if the talent is there, the "stiff" beats won't be an issue for long.

One piece of advice I can give you is definitely use the swing on the step sequencer if you use that for drums, it will add a little sway to your beats.

ok thanks... but to bring this form back to topic does any body got any good tips on how to make southern beats

The most important thing for making "southern" beats isnt the program or hardware you're using but an understanding of the techniques that producers in that genre use and having similar sounds to what they have (easy to find on here and *****). Study beats you want to emulate and try to re-create them as well as you can, you'll learn a lot along the way. And actually, making southern beats is probably easier than making "northeast beats" in Fl. Southern beats have drums that are real easy to program in FL and sample heavy stuff up here in NY isn't always like that.

 

[dakotathecanuck]

yea i hear that. I have spent the last six hours making "souther" beats and im staring to get a hang for it

 

[Burna]

^^^

hey man, I'm at work at the moment but when I get home I'll peep that song you liked and get back to you with some ideas.

for now start with the drums and try something like this;

1. set the tempo to 90

2. open one of the 808 drum kits

3. program the following drum pattern

h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h h

k - - - c - - - k - k - c - - -

h = hi hat
k = kick drum
c = clap

see how that goes mate

holla

Co-Signs. I make southern style beats, as well. And that's my basic re-drum pattern most of the time.

 

[sYgMa]

to transform Mp3 into wavs...

that depends what version of FL you have... if it's FL5 or FL6, then you should be able to use mp3 directly in FL... but it doesnt really support mp3 as well as wav, so to convert mp3, you need a editing program (like Adobe Audition, SoundForge or Audacity (that last one is free))

If you want ideas for Drum patterns, there are other threads with drum pattern ideas... look it up

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https://www.illmuzik.com/forums/showthread.php?p=112394

https://www.illmuzik.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10941

 

[Hi-Lo]

One thing about converting an mp3 into a wav...if you're doing it to import it to FL that's one thing, but you're gonna be working with a low quality sample most of the time (unless the mp3 you convert is 220+ quality). When you convert a mp3 into wav, you're basically making a very high quality copy of a low quality original, and that lost quality can't be restored just by converting it to wav.

When i first started making beats, I heard people say you need to sample from vinyl or at least burn straight into wav from cd and keep it that way, and I was skeptical, but it definitely makes a huge difference in the quality of your final product. My advice is just to record a song or rip a song straight into a 2160k wav file (highest quality possible in sound forge) and use that.