hello and walk back to the channel today
I'm back with another FL Studio tutorial
where I'm gonna show you how to tempo
sync any loop whether it's a percussive
or a melodic loop how to lock it into
your project tempo so that you can use a
wide variety of loops instead of having
to hunt for loops that are in the exact
same BPM as your project so let's get
right into it so I've quickly created
this project at 122 BPM using some
samples from a decap Pak and it sounds
like this
and what I'm gonna do is hunt for a drum
loop to fit in with this so I'm just
gonna go into the D cap pack now so if I
go into the drum loop folder most sample
packs will be you know they'll list the
BPM like this and you'll have loads to
choose from so I like this one at 114
but that's obviously not my project
tempo so if I drag this in to the
project although the style of the drum
loop is really good it's not going to
match up with my project and this is
gonna sound completely out of sync
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pretty awful the first thing you need to
do this technique is the BPM of the
sample so most good sample packs have
the BPM listed but in case you don't
have the BPM or is the sample you've
recorded or samples from somewhere and
you don't have the BPM you're gonna have
to find it and there's a really quick
and simple way to do it up here in this
little waveform icon at the top of the
sample window you just left-click and
then press it detect tempo it's as
simple as that
just give it a range to search between I
tend to start with 75 to 150 but you can
pick a different range it'll just take a
second or two and it'll say the temp has
been detected as 114 don't worry about
these extra decimal points here it's
usually just the main value here 114
another way to get the tempo is to open
up the channel rack open up the sample
wrapper here right click on this
waveform and Press detect tempo and it
will bring up the same window as last
time so there's two different ways to do
that now that we know the tempo of the
sample we're going to lock it in to the
project so again go up to this icon here
this little waveform left-click and
instead of detect tempo we're going to
press fit to tempo and then we go down
to this one here that says type in BPM
so I'm going to select that and then we
have to type in the BPM of the sample
not of the project so I'm going to type
in 114 and press enter and you'll see
that it's actually locked it into the
grid now so if I press play
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so what has actually happened to lock it
into the grid so if I double left-click
they'll pull open the rapper and in the
time stretching box up here this time
dial has been adjusted so if I turn this
anti-clockwise it shrinks my loop and if
I extend it it makes the loop longer and
in this case it used the temple
information to lock it in as an 8 bar
loop if you right-click on this dial you
can actually select specific numbers of
bars so say your sample has been
recorded to be 2 bars long or 4 bars
long you can just select that and it
will lock it right in in this case
that's really fast because mine was
actually an 8 bar sample now there's
lots of different time stretching modes
but I'm going to demonstrate those on
the melodic samples if I now want to
change the tempo of my whole project
it's going to give us a few issues and
I'll show you how to fix these so if I
press play and I want to change my tempo
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you're gonna it just sounds awful okay
absolutely awful so what we have to do
is go up to tools at the top here tools
macros switch on audio clips to
real-time stretching now if I adjust the
tempo the project gets faster but it
doesn't start going out of tune or
changing the key of the project or
anything like that sounds really good so
that technique is all well and good for
drum loops usually you can stretch a
drum loop 10 15 20 BPM and it usually
sounds pretty good still sounds like
kicks and snares it's not you know
crunching up the audio too badly but
with melodic loops you have to be
careful which stretching mode you use so
with this loop at the top here if I go
into the fruity wrapper again and I set
it to resample mode and then if I select
stretch up here so i select focus audio
clips and then turn stretching on i can
stretch my loop here and you'll notice
that it changes the pitch as well as the
speed of the sample so the shorter my
sample gets the higher in pitch the
sample gas which is not what I want at
all whereas if I go back into the
wrapper and change the time stretching
mode to stretch it's going to adjust the
speed but the pitch is going to stay the
same as it was before it's just a lot
faster but it's the same pitch I've just
gone back to the drum loop now and I've
lowered the tempo to 100 BPM so the drum
loop plays back a bit slower and we're
gonna listen to a few of the different
stretching modes so I'm just going to
start with resample and let's take a
listen stretch that really radically
changes how the kick sounds if I change
to one of these elastic modes not really
really message with the kick and the
snare sounds really strange as well so
some of the modes even though they might
sound worse on one sample they can often
sound better on another samples
especially when you're doing things like
vocal pitching if you're not really
getting the pitch
sound you want definitely try all of
these different modes and see which
sounds better for your specific sample
and the absolute final point to this is
that if for some reason the BPM is not
working it's not a certain number of
bars it's just not working just go up to
the top of the playlist make sure that
you've got stretch selected here and
just manually try to adjust the loops so
if I really zoom in on the sample and
look at my grid you can see here's the
first kick that's the first snare and
there's the second kick and I can just
see that the kick is too far forward so
if I go you know to the end of my loop
and I stretch the sample in a bit I can
take a look and see whether it's whether
it's fitting so the first thing I would
do is zoom in on this sample and once
that I am zoomed in to a place where I
can really see the kicks and the snares
like this usually I just cut a bit of
the sample off because I don't need to
see all of it
I'll cut that and I'll make sure that
stretching is on and now I'm going to
start lining up the kicks and the snare
so I can see that here's a kick here's a
snare and I really want my snare to fall
on this line so you can just manually
line it up until you're happy this is
you know quite a rough method but you
know it works so let's see if this
worked sounds pretty good to me so
that's it for this tip it was a really
simple and quick one I hope you enjoyed
it I hope you find lots of use for it
and I hope to see you in the next video
- bye for now