Comments on: How To Add More Weight To Your Kick Drums With Sine Wave

By: Adrien

Adrien — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 20:20:31 +0000

What is that sample pack? I really need to know… Someone please tell me!

By: emir

emir — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 01:51:07 +0000

thanks for this awesome tutorial 🙂
so how can i extend my sample to 3 seconds

By: TRAV

TRAV — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:50:56 +0000

THIS IS REALLY HELPFULL,

THANKS SO MUCH

By: martin

martin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:05:03 +0000

Dude,

great tutorial….one quick question tho….if i want kick tuned to C should i be looking to use a 67Hz sine wave?

Thanks.

By: trent

trent — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:14:01 +0000

hey how do you get the exact kick as you so i can work with it to understand it better i cant find kick 3 or somthing like that thanks

By: Petri Suhonen

Petri Suhonen — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:31:40 +0000

In reply to Dillon.

Hey Dillon,

The output levels of Step Sequencer Sampler Channels are few decibels lower than the audio clips and what you hear from Edison. There’s three reasons for this and I quote the FL Studio manual:

“1. Sampler Channels load at a default 55% volume, about -5.2 dB. This ‘feature’ is to prevent clipping when several Channel Samplers are used together and also to allow some extra headroom for note/step velocity modulation. The assumption is that Channel Samplers will be used as ‘instruments’ and so you will be playing (see the next point) and mixing them to sound right ‘in the mix’. If a Channel Sampler is too quiet, turn it up.

2. Sampler Channels respond to note velocity. The default note velocity in FL Studio is 100 (MIDI = 0 to 127). If a sample is too quiet you can also play it louder.

3. Sampler Channels respond to the default Circular Panning Law. This reduces the sample gain by -3 dB at center pan, tapering to 0 dB at the extreme L/R pan positions.

So together the default load state for a Channel Sampler can be about 8.2 dB lower than the samples recorded level. If you absolutely need a sample to render at its recorded level, load it as an Audio Clip by dropping your samples on the Playlist (these default to 100% volume, 0 dB). Finally, make sure the Master and Main volumes (described above) are set to 0 dB and don’t forget the effect of note velocity on playback level.”

The sample doesn’t loose its punch or anything like that. Its just the difference of output volume levels.

Hope this helps!

By: Dillon

Dillon — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:43:15 +0000

awesome thank you!! I had a hunch it had something to do with that but wasn’t sure why it was happening so i appreciate the explanation very much! I’ve been using FL for about 5 years now but not really in depth until about 2 years ago and I spent about 4 or more hours reading all of your tutorials, great stuff man, I learned a TON! Super helpful and descriptive, I’m definitely going to be implementing a lot of it into my projects. Please, keep em coming!

By: Dillon

Dillon — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:05:14 +0000

Hello sir and thank you for the wonderful tutorial! Quite helpful but I am running into a strange problem.
When I play the edited sample in edison it sounds great! real bass heavy and whatnot but when I go to drag it to the step sequencer it gets much much quieter and looses some of its punch (even when turning up the volume) But when I save the file and drag it to the playlist as an audio clip it sounds the same as it does in Edison. Is there some sort of limiter or volume reducer on the step sequencer that I’m not noticing or is this something you’ve never run into?

By: Mat

Mat — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:27:52 +0000

Petri, can you send me a folder “392 Progressive House Samples” ?
i really need these kicks 😉

By: Petri Suhonen

Petri Suhonen — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:57:13 +0000

In reply to Max Golovanov.

🙂