Nabeel Ansari

I make electronic drums. Aka,usually more than one mixer track for everything. I made a DnB kit and posted it an a thread on this very forum that was a LOT of tracks. And only like six drum hits. One per hit, then one that had the kick and snare track to it, another with all the amens routed to it, then all of that to another one, that one went to two that were panned both ways , those two went back into one. I also used about 20 or more effects. This is why I will never switch to another DAW than FL Studio, because this is just about impossible in any other DAW because they don't have (all at the same time) a crazily flexible mixer, playlist and piano roll. Like I keep saying (annoyingly, at that), FL is very good for its flexibility and support for basically any type of workflow you could imagine.

*facepalm* The only song I find noticeable clipping (for shame) is Clamato Fever. But just from skipping around on other tracks, I can tell you there is no clipping. Only fist pump style compression. There's a difference between file compression and actually compressing the sound in terms of loudness. The latter is when you have audio go past a certain threshold of loudness and then it gets pushed down at a set ratio (basics of compression). This is what Big A2 is referring to. You're talking about file compression, which is hard for a lot of people to hear especially if it's a VBR.

Don't use an EQ on the songs. The artist mixed and produced something a certain way, and you should try to listen to it how they made it rather than altering it. Only EQ to compensate for bad frequency response on a system. (really bad bass response on speakers = you enhance the bass)

The FL Studio dB meters are not precise enough for me. I'll use what I want on the master, however meaningless it may be. As far as hitting zero, it usually goes past (I just raise the ceiling on the limiter so that it doesn't compress). I don't use any compression, but the FL Rendering might, That's probably why my music doesn't clip. Again, I use limiter not to limit, but as a nice widescreen amplitude TV.

Again, I don't compress with FL Limiter. I just use the visuals as a guide to how close I can get to the ceiling.

I actually use one or more compressors in the process of making drum kits/beats. Not just on everything, but I'd have the kick and snare to one, the amens to another, and then have those route to another one for that consistency of sound. (the "glue" as zircon describes it) In short, my drum production ends up being 10 or more mixer tracks just for percussion. I don't like doing this on the master, but maybe that's because I've just shyed away because I didn't do it right when I was younger.

Yeah you're waking loudness war territory here, it's up to preference. I only use a limiter on the master, but I rarely have anything go above the ceiling to get pushed down. I use it to accurately place volume stuff for maximum volume with minimum compression. I was taught not to use a compressor on the master, and when I was still cranking out stuff at 13 years old on the WiP forums I realized why. It never worked. Gonna have to agree with Rozovian here, compression for better sound isn't always the best option. If you want to master your music, don't squish the dynamics with a compressor. If you do, don't do it much. Dynamics make it flow.

If they're just VST's and wavs, most DAWs should be able to run them...

Pretty much.

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The way I see it, and a general guideline that I follow: You DO make things in a song punchy. You DON'T make THE SONG punchy.

It has to do with your sound card drivers and crazy stuff like that. Just use the ASIO driver with the UCG102 for mixing and exporting.

You can buy the "Juice Pack" by Imageline, which is all of FL Studio effects in VST form for other DAW usage. Was it fruitalicious?

Parametric EQ 2

The pictures don't explain that, though. It would've been clearer if the mixer tracks had been showing the volume levels exceeding the 0 decibels in the second one. Would've been actually meaningful. Otherwise, I couldn't get anything from those pictures. I keep my mixes around the same levels of your second pic and my mixing is fine. Say what you mean rather than dropping vague hints next time.

Instead of encouraging the meaning and purpose of projects to change, we should encourage people to reconsider starting a project just because they can.

OBVIOUSLY the second one is bad because the names of the tracks are in ugly yellow... duh...

Send me this entry when done or I will hunt you down (and kill you until you die from it).

Getting Fruity means you have no Slicex, audio recording, Edison wav editor, MIDI or Audio clips in playlist, envelope automation, (not as important stuff now: ) SynthMaker (if you're into that sort of thing), Vocodex, and Convolver (for "high quality" reverb effects). English: You're screwing over your workflow if you don't get producer. Even electronica music uses audio clips (maybe you freeze tracks or process recordings of other samples online) and without clips you're basically confining yourself to a simpler but more obsolete, less flexible, and outdated form of writing in FL Studio.

Oh, I guess I read it wrong. My bad, but I could've sworn they said they were removing it altogether.

The original topic was clips vs. blocks, and you never said what you preferred. You said you like patterns, which both systems use. Anyways, pointless bickering aside, you should learn how to use clips. They're much harder than simple pattern blocks, but they are a lot more flexible. It really expands what you can do with your patterns. EDIT: WOW, I"M STUPID. When I said they're removing patterns, I meant ye olde patterns blocks pre-FL Studio 9 (or 8 if you started usin clips earlier).

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What DAW are you using? It can't be FL Studio, because FL Studio's entire system is pattern based. Ur probly just doin it wrong. I've never heard of doing the entire song in one pattern. That takes away the point of patterns in the first place. You also misunderstand the workflow; FL Studio is the easiest DAW for creating variations and copypasta. Don't make your song in one pattern, make each part go in a separate one. I don't mean one pattern per instrument either, I mean one for every section of your song and every instrument. Or, if it just repeats for 4 bars (or something), make it one bar long and paint it over 4. Hit the top left button of one of them and hit make unique. Voila, that specific clip is now its own pattern which will not affect the original others, only the clips that get stuff from that pattern. You can change it whereas the other 3 remain the same and linked to each other. You can do this on the two others, too, to just make four different patterns plain and simple. It's not as fast as cloning in the pattern blocks viewer, but it allows for more flexibility. If you did it right with lots of variations your song should end up over 50 patterns. I think clips is just a better system in general. It takes elements from ye olde pattern blocks and the traditional DAW playlist and makes a unique system that is unmatchable in flexibility and unlimitability (is that a word?) if the time was taken to learn it. The whole idea of FL Studio is that you can organize your stuff however you want. Can't organize yourself? Don't use FL Studio. Don't ask for it to be exactly like the others, or you will make a lot of people angry.

Can you rephrase the question?

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