Sampling in fl studio free#

You can find DirectWave’s amp envelope in the ZONE window. If you want to reverse the sample for some interesting sound design, then simply press Alt+Left. Bounce loops the sample forwards and then in reverse until the key is released. The region beyond the Loop End will play on key release - in order to hear this you will have to set a slow release via the amp envelope. In Sustained mode the looped region will play while a key is held. We already covered the basics of looping in DirectWave, but there’s a lot more flexibility within the Loop Type drop down menu.įorward means the sample is repeated jumping back to the Loop Start once. If the loop mode is disabled then your MIDI notes will act as a gate, only playing the sample for as long as the note is held. To do this simply select ONE SHOT from the menu. If you have loaded some drum samples you may want to trigger your sample as a one shot, playing all the way through as soon as a MIDI note is triggered. You can alter the trigger mode of your sample via the Loop Type drop down menu in the SAMPLE tab. There’s also a couple more options available in the filter and amp sections but we’ll go into more detail on these later Here you can edit classic parameters like cutoff, resonance and the ADSR envelope. The ZONE tab also houses the filter and amp units. This can be tweaked via the ZONE tab using the PITCH TUNE knob.

To make a simple, infinite loop for leads or pads select ‘Forward’ from the loop type menu and drag the Loop tabs to set your loop.Įven if you’ve set the root note of your sample, it may not be perfectly in tune. To change the start point of your sample simply go to the SAMPLE tab at the bottom left of DirectWave and drag the ‘Start’ tab to the appropriate starting point. You can easily change the root note of your sample by right clicking on the virtual keyboard in the DirectWave UI.

The clip ‘S56_130_G_Synth_1’ sounds like it would make a cool instrument, to load it simply drag it in from the browser window and drop it into DirectWave’s interface.ĭirectWave will automatically pitch the sample across the keyboard, however your sample will not necessarily be in tune with the piano keyboard.

Sampling in fl studio free#

We’re going to be working with the free taster pack of Sample Digger’s Dark Garage. Sampling VSTs DIRECTWAVE QUICK-START GUIDEįirst things first, let’s load a sample. One shining example of this is DirectWave’s ability to quickly and easily create a sample instrument of any VST in FL Studio, allowing you to collaborate with people who may not have the same third party plugins as you. It covers all the bases you’d expect from a modern soft sampler and also some which make you think ‘why can’t every sampler do this?’ FL Studio comes with a few different sampler options, but by far the most powerful is the comprehensively featured DirectWave.