DarkeSword

Please don't confuse the word 'soundfont' with the term 'sample.' Soundfonts are a specific file format (.sf2). Not all samples are soundfonts.

Your question was pretty clear. Here's a picture of the piano roll window from FL's help guide. The button in the upper left corner (#5) is what you want to make use of. Notice how they have a long blue note at the bottom, and then a smaller blue note near the top (#9). The smaller note has a small triangle in it, which indicates it's a slide note. This means that it will take the pitch the large note will start on and start bending the pitch to where it's located for whatever duration it's set to. In this case, it will bend the pitch from G# upto C# in one beat (four little boxes). You can make one of these notes by hitting the #5 button in the picture. It has a triangle on it. In order to make a note get louder or softer, you can overlap the slide note with the note you already have (example, put a B slide-note right on top of a regular B note). Set the regular note's velocity to the starting volume of the note, and set the slide note's velocity to the volume you want it to fade to. The fade start at the slide note and will last for the duration of the slide note. Hope that helps.

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Ooh, this pulse is strong. The triplet feel in the percussion is really nice, and accents what's going on really nicely. I'm not too crazy about that flute sample. Sounds kinda tinny. When the piano comes in with the choral sounds, it's pure heaven. The guitar also adds a really nice touch. Your sounds (for the most part) are excellent, and you really build a nice texture by combining them properly. A few things; for the most part, the song seemed to have a lot of highs and lows, and not enough midrange. It may have been a levels issue. Not too serious, just something to think about. Also, it was a bit short. I would have loved to hear the part with the chorals developed more. All in all though, great work, Helen.

No they can't. I'd suggest completely uninstalling Winamp 3 and getting Winamp 5 anyway. It's better than 3 and more stable. If that doesn't work, Google around for some MP3 taggers. I know there are some out there.

Thanks for that information. Funny, on my FL Studios box, it says that you are legally entited to only ONE free upgrade - haha. Has anyone ever tried 4.5 yet? If so, in your personal opinion, is it worth upgrading from V4.12 to it? Geez, just when I thought I had everything... You should have bought it online. You get free updates for life with the online version. Boxed users have to pay $29 extra for the free-updates-for-life option.

and FL slayer Correct, but that doesn't answer the question of "Where can I find good bass and electric piano samples?"

Thanks for the comments; keep them coming! WOOT! mixcount+1!!

Umm...dude, when you buy FL, you get free updates for the main software for life. You're legally entitled to download 4.12 if you bought 3.56. Go and DOWNLOAD it. You're using outdated software when you're legally entitled to use the most recent version! As for the SFPlayer, it works with the most recent version of FL. You can't buy the SFPlayer without buying FL, and if you bought FL, you automatically have the most recent version.

http://soundfonts.darkesword.com/

What do you mean by a battle snaredrum? A marching snare, akin to what was used in the army, or a kind of power-rock snare you'd hear in a battle them in FF or something?

Because a sample format allows you to map wav files to a keyboard and allows you to trigger the sample with a keyboard or by a piano roll, among other things. Soundfonts can also have velocity specific samples, such as in a piano soundfont. High velocity will play a harder attack, whereas a low velocity will give you a softer sound. If you're just talking about percussion, soundfonts are nice because yes, you can program them into a MIDI keyboard, and also, percussion soundfonts often have sounds that work really well together. Stand alone wave samples are nice; I use them a lot myself, for rev cymbals and more ethnic percussion sounds, but I prefer soundfonts, because they're sounds that come in packs and they often have specific data about when to cut a sample (e.g. a CH sound will automatically cut a OH sound). Granted, you can do stuff like cutting with wav samples, but it's more convenient when you have a soundfont that takes care of all that for you.

BOOCOCKY INDEED.

You need the NOVAkILL synths:DREAMkILLER EGOkILLER GODkILLER SOULkILLER MINDkILLER those are IMHO the best electronica synths ever Available here: http://www.novakill.com/killerz.htm They're VST's. I should check these out too.

soundfonts.darkesword.com I don't use .wavs that much, besides my rev cymbal.

Technically, Nintendo already has the rights to this song.

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For a good remix of Dragon Roost Isle, search around for Pirates of Dragon Roost Isle by Unknown. Its either on the WIP board or at VGMix somewhere. Thanks everyone for the feedback on my mix. I also posted this to VGMix earlier this week, and as of this post, it's recieved over a thousand downloads. Yay Zelda, I suppose. I really fell in love with the melody when I heard Laruto play it on her harp; such a beautiful theme. I actually started a techno mix of it, but I put that away for a while upon getting the WW OST. I listened to Laruto's theme and tried to emulate it using my harp and choir samples. This is the first time I've nailed the strums in a harp. After that, I just sort of developed it from there, adding strings and stuff, as well as the main theme. Thanks to everyone for giving this song a listen; I think that its an excellent homage to Koji Kondo, who's really, in my opinion, the father of VG music, and a big influence on me. Sure, Nobuo and Mitsuda are geniuses, but Kondo started it all off with his SMB soundtrack, and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves in an endless sea of RPG OST's. The man writes like no one's business. As for the aforementioned techno piece, here it is, made a bit more generic for your listening pleasure. Personally, I prefer this to Ancient Hero. Wind Waker - Super Bouncy Hero Mix 2003!!! Hmm...what else... Oh yes. Mixcount+1

The really professional sounding Jazz tracks you find of CT are off the Brink of Time CD by Yasunori Mitsuda. CT never got an orchestral AST; it got a jazz one, and 'remix' you're talking about isn't from this site, but from Square.

Xelebes, that only works if you're crescendoing from note to note. If you want single, sustained note to crescendo, use the pitch bend function. First, make your note; then, one quarter beat after the attack of the note, put a pitchbend note right on top of the note you wrote. Change the velocity of the first note to the initial velocity you want the note to attack at, and set the pitchbend's note to the velocity you want the note to end with. (Pitchbend notes are selectable by selecting the small triange button near the color selection in the piano roll)

Just use the chopper...jeezus. Make a note. Highlight it. Press CTRL+U. Adjust the knob. Your note will be chopped into smaller pieces. Delete and move as necessary.

Bury Me on the Jedi Battlefield and/or Tempest - Act I, Scene I, available at my site. ... PLZKTHX

...wow... This got posted really quickly O_o; I submitted this not too long ago. Glad everyone liked it. Mixcount +1 Edit: I just thought I'd add something about the mix that Pretz forgot; it's a remix of Frappe Snowland and Rainbow Road; but rather than just moving from one to another in medly fashion, I trying to put bits of RR in the FS sections. Listen to the bells. You'll see what I mean.

Search around hammersound.net man. This isn't a thread to find samples; it's a thread for help on how to use FL. Stop asking.

None. In this thread, FL is king. Sorry I can't help man. I use FL almost exclusively and don't really get this whole 'flaw' thing. The only thing I could think of would be a better way to use live recorded tracks in an easier fashion.