Crescendos and decrescendos?

[Hausdog]

Whenever I try to change the volume level on a note, it stays constant. How do I add a crescendo or decrescendo?

Thanks!

[Lunahorum]

If you want to make the volume gradually increase, use an automation clip with the mixer and a plugin that has gain in it (I believe there is something called Fruity Gain).

Right click gain knob -> automation clip or event in piano roll edit. There you go.

Now this won't sound exactly like a crescendo because real instruments change their tone as they get louder. You might want to experiment with other effects that atuomate at the same time as the volume like a hint of distortion or various other effects.

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

for changing the volume of a single note as it's being played, use a portamento to the same note, but with a different velocity.

the previously mentioned method works too, depending on what you wanna do.

[Mia]

for changing the volume of a single note as it's being played, use a portamento to the same note, but with a different velocity.

the previously mentioned method works too, depending on what you wanna do.

This is what I was going to say too. If you're unclear on what this means, look up "slide note" in the FL help documentation.

[Hausdog]

Thanks! That helped a lot.

[Zephyr]

If it's only for one thing though, I would recommend just going into the piano roll's velocity channel and rightclicking a crescendo in. Saves time over automation.

[Jacian]

So let's say (I've wondered this myself) I have a violin and I want it to hold a note long but with varying intensity (like the player starts out soft with the bow and then begins to hammer it out), would I need to use the plugin to modify its intensity? Just raising and lowering the volume doesn't sound right The affect I'm trying to achieve is just like the violins in the great Forerunner Mix (Alpha) at: http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01659/

Is there a way to do this?! Thanks!

~jace

[Zephyr]

First of all, I'm assuming you mean you have a violin sound, not a violin or you wouldn't be asking this, second of all, in the sound you linked to i'm not hearing a lot of sustained strings, only quick strokes, so if you could give a time specification in the form of = (the strings at 2:10) it would be a whole lot easier to help. I think you may be confusing vibrato with volume, vibrato is the very slight raising and lowering of a pitch over time, all good violin players use it as it adds a new dimension to the sound, since it's so slight it could be mistaken for volume changes.

[Jacian]

Yeah... I kind of found out a good way to do it. Thanks though... if I have more questions I'll start my own forum post

~jace