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In order to do this, activate the kickdrum Mixer Track by clicking it and right click on that little up arrow -icon on the Bassline Mixer Track (TS404) and choose ‘Sidechain to this track’. Next, sidechain compress the kickdrum to the TS404 Bassline Synthesizer to make the bassline sit more nicely with the kickdrum. Now, open the Mixer, go to the Mixer Track that is assigned to a TS404, set it’s volume level to -7.0 dB (71%) and drop a Soundgoodizer to the it’s fx slot (to give more ‘beef’ to it) and set it like shown in the pic below (also, boost the low end to give even more beef to it by using the Mixer Track eq and using the low shelf filter, set the frequency to 235Hz, leave bandwidth to 0.27 and boost 10.8dB):Ĭreate a new pattern to the Playlist and open the Piano Roll -view of TS404 and create a following hypnotic, arpeggio style bassline: For creating a nice ‘rubber bass’ -type of bass sound, tweak the TS404 as follows:

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Next we’ll program the the bass sound using TS404 so load the TS404 Bassline Synthesizer and assign it to a free Mixer Track. This will control how much of the Send Track signal will be sent to the Master Track). Also, you can control the effect signal level by using the Send Track volume level slider. Now, when you’re in the open hihat Mixer Track, tweak the Send Track 1 Send Volume -knob to 52% (with Send Volume knob you can control how much of the source track signal will be sent to the Send Track and this affects how much of the effect in the Send Track fx slot will be applied to the source track signal. Ok, let’s move on with the phasing: choose the preset ‘wishwash’ and set the Sweep freq. Using send effect gives a better control over the mix level between the dry (non-effected) and wet (effected) signal and this is what I need as I just want to add a slight phasing effect ‘on top’ of the open hihat, but leave the original signal intact ‘on bottom’ ( send effect is also typically used if you wan’t to use a same ‘time-based’ effects such as reverb or delay with same settings on several different Mixer Track s as it will save some CPU because you dont have to load a new instance of these same effects on every single Mixer Track). You do this by dropping the Fruity Phaser to the Send Track 1 fx slot.

Add Fruity Phaser (phaser effect is here to make the open hihat sequence sound a tad more interesting) as a SEND effect for the open hihat. Set the open hihat volume level to -6.7dB (72%). Set the closed hihat volume level to -1.5dB (94%). I also added Fruity Reeverb 2 to add a slight sense of space to the clap (check the specific settings from the pic below): Also add a Fruity Parametric EQ 2 and use low shelf filter to cut the low end off (frequency of 247Hz, bandwidth of 60% and -18.0dB cut) and boost the high end via high shelf filter (frequency of 7537Hz, bandwidth of 60% and 2.8dB boost). Set the claps volume level to -2.5dB (89%). Set the kickdrum volume level to 0.0dB and use the Mixer Track eq to boost the low end (low shelf filter, frequency of 270Hz, bandwidth of 0.27 and 8.8dB boost). To make this happen with these specific drum sounds, start with the kickdrum and following settings:

We are going to mix the drums so that the most power is given to the kickdrum – I’ve found this to be quite a working rule of thumb on mixing electronic music. Now we need to set the levels between the drum sounds in balance, add some effects and eq a bit so open the Mixer.

Again, open the Graph Editor and edit the Velocity event: step 2 to 50%, step 3 to 78% and repeat it to steps 6,7, 10,11,14,15. This will add a nice variation to the otherwise machine gun -like hihat pattern.Īdd open hihat notes to steps 2,3 & 6,7 & 10,11 & 14,15. Use Step Sequencers Graph editor to edit the Velocity events of the closed hihat in a following way: In the first step, drop the velocity to around 53%, second step to 38%, third step to 78% (default), fourth step to 38% and repeat this to the rest of the three bars. Now, using the Step Sequencer, create a following beat sequence:Īdd kickdrum notes to steps 1, 5, 9 and 13.Īdd closed hihat notes to every step to give that ‘rushing’ feel to the beat. Next, you need to build nice and steady 4-to-the-floor beat sequence so drop a kickdrum, closed hihat, open hihat and claps samples to the sampler channels, rename the channels (just to keep things organized) and assign each channel to a free Mixer Tracks. Here’s an audio example what I’m talking about:

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In this tutorial I will show you how to create a psytrance (psychedelic trance) style driving, hypnotic beat & bassline in FL Studio.

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