Arranging patterns in the FL Studio playlist editor

Pt. 5 of 10 | 3:53 |

Feel the Beat with FL Studio

Friday September 4, 2009

We've got a beat. We've got a melody. Now it's time to change the arrangement in the

FL Studio song playlist

. Andrew Carr runs through

how to arrange patterns

into songs and shows us how to split our patterns and use them to create a bonafide electronic song.

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- Right-click a layer and select Clone to create a new channel with a blank pattern, but with the same sound properties as the cloned channel.

- Click on the Playlist view button and in the Playlist menu, select Patterns and Split by channel.

- The different

channels we created in the sequencer

will be brought into the playlist as their own channels.

- Ensure anything that was muted in the sequencer is unmuted.

- Select Song mode from the selection LEDs beside the transport controls.

- Use the paintbrush tool to arrange patterns in the playlist.

- Select a channel in the playlist and hit the sequencer button to edit the selected pattern.

- Hit play in the trasport controls to hear your song.

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