My DAW of choice is FL Studio. I am no musical professional but I have used the DAW for a while and have my own approach to making EDM tracks using it. If you are thinking about getting FL Studio, have recently acquired it, or use another DAW such as Ableton and are interested in how the other side can possibly make music with that funny FL thing then feel free to take a look at my own method of making a track.

Aside from bookending the recordings with my logo and “sting” music I am not editing these videos. I might, if I get any good feedback on them, edit them a bit and pop them on youTube but, for now, I am uploading them unedited on my Patreon page. Don’t worry, they are available to all membership types, including totally free memberships. There are quite a few parts.

View the video series on Patreon

Or view the individual videos here.

Part 1 – The Beginnings

Part 2 – Developing the Loop

Part 3 – Loop to Arrangement

Part 4 – Working on the Break & Drop

Part 5 [Coming Soon]

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Here are my results.

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There is no hard and fast rule to creating a walking bass and the methods used to make it bounce are all personal choices but I hope you enjoy the exploration…and my rambinglings.

I present this process in two parts, the first creating a simple suitable bass sound in Serum , making a very simple bass pattern in the piano roll, and looking at ways to duck the bass under the kick, giving it some bounce. Part two demonstrates trying out different pitches and accent placement to give further movement and variation in the standard bass pattern.

Part 1: Sound, basic pattern and kick ducking/bounce.

Part 2: Rolling Bass Pattern Variations

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Video Transcript

00:00:08
Hello. Jomarkho here, with another little tutorial about FL Studio.

Here I’ve opened up my main template. I’m going to talk to you about the current channel here on the mixer.
At the moment I have nothing here. Now the current channel on the mixer is very useful to help you monitor what’s going on, on an individual channel, without the need to load in the same plugin multiple times on different channels.
00:00:38
So, for example, here I’m going to load Span.
Now Span is great to see what your level output and your spectrum output across the frequency range. Placing it on your current channel marker, this one here at the end with the C, will display the output from the other currently selected channel at any time.

I can have one instance of spam on the current channel rather than placing spans across multiple channels and swapping between them when I want to see (their output).
I find this very, very useful. You can have it open particularly if you have two screens like I do, and normally my mixer would be on my second screen. But for the purpose of this tutorial, it’s here on this one screen.
00:01:32
So, as you see, as I flick through these different elements from one channel to the next, you will see only the output from that channel is being displayed on the Span.
00:02:01
Two other common uses for using the current channel are to put an instance of Edison, the audio editor for recording channel.
Here you can select to record whichever your currently selected channel is without opening multiple instances of Edison.
00:02:20
Let’s just take a quick look at that right here.
00:02:50
There we go. Nice and easy peasy.
00:02:54
And here we see the use of a DB metre. So, you can easily see on a large scale the debug level of the current selected track.
Now I would normally rearrange my windows and have this pretty much the full height of the screen but, as I’ve got everything stacked onto 1 screen, I won’t do that in this case.
00:03:19
Let’s just have a very quick look at this.
00:03:33
So here are three uses for the current channel. I’m sure you can find many more. Have fun and I hope this improves your FL studio workflow.
Bye for now.

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