In this quick tutorial I will show you how to create a warm and soothing bell sound using 3xOsc. It is easy to create, yet very usable sound and works well in a chill-out or ambient style of music (though not limited to only those genres). If you don’t have FL Studio and 3xOsc, you can use any synth which has a sine wave generator to create this sound.
Here’s a sound preview:
Ok. First thing to do is to load 3xOsc to your FL Studio project and choose Sine Wave as the shape for the Oscillator 1. Also, we need only ONE oscillator so disable the Osc 2 & Osc 3 by turning their volume levels to 0%.
Go to the Instrument Properties (INS) -tab and from there to VOL -subtab (volume envelope) and click on the ‘Use envelope’ -button to enable it and edit the envelope curve to look like this (short Attack time, quite low Sustain level and semi-long Release time is the key here):
Next, click on the TNS -button (Tension) to edit the envelope line shapes a bit. We’ll lower the tension level of Decay to add more sharper ‘drop’ from the Decay to Sustain. This’ll make the bell sound more sharper. Also lower the tension level between Sustain and Release to not let the long Release to be too ‘dominant’ or not to let it ‘ring’ too loudly… kinda hard to explain with my English, but I hope you understand what I mean:
And lastly, we’ll add that spacious depth and color to the sound via Fruity Reeverb. So, assign the 3xOsc to a free mixer track and drop a Fruity Reeverb to it’s effect slot and set it like this: Color to Warmer (all the way to right – to make the reverb sound less metallic), Decay to 7 sec (long Decay time is the key here to make the bell sound huge and atmospheric), HighDamping to OFF and Reverb level to 24% :
Done! Have fun with it and make some great music! 🙂
Watch the video below and download the FL Studio 10 project file:
Download Bell Sound FL Studio 10 Project File
16 Comments
Very dreamy. I like it
Ye, works great in ambient and chill! 8)
Wow! Another great sound by the mighty 3xOsc. The plugin is rising to the top of my to-use plugins list every tutorial thanks to you Petri. what about minimal house, which plugins in Fl studio would you prefere? Thanks again
Thank you Rodnick!
As for minimal house: I think any synth can actually work: 3xOsc, TS404, Wasp, etc. I think it’s all about how you use them 🙂
Now that we have a bell can you show us how to make ambient or dream house beats? I’ve been trying to pull something like that off but i just cant do it.
Hey Tyler, dream house is a bit unfamiliar genre to me, but I’ll look into it. Same goes to ambient. I’m defiinetely going to create an ambient tutorial at some point!
Cheers!
Thanks! I’m really looking forward to that ambient tutorial! By the way, some dream house artists are Robert Miles, Nylon Moon, and Imperio. Dream house is a lot like trance so I think you’ll like it! Once again though, thanks for the reply!
Thank you for making this tutorial, really love this dreamy sound. I find all you’re tutorials very informative and check by most days to see if you have any new. So thank you for sharing you’re knowledge. 🙂
you cant imagine how you help users with these tutorials, men thank you alot seriously!!! keep that way!! yuou know alot damn!!!! 😀 God bless you and your talen!
Also , you say in this tutorial : kinda hard to explain with my English, but I hope you understand what I mean: what language do you speak? spanish?
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just what i was looking for! thank you so much. great website
I know that you might never get around to reading this Petri, but you have inspired me to create so many different beautiful sounds. I have really learned most I know about production from you. Thank you for creating this website and sharing you knowledge with the world. I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much for all your tutorials, they have been very helpful
plz can you show me the piano roll for this music
Thanks
Nice and simple, 3xosc is great for getting to grips with synthesis.
I am a struggling noob and this website is a godsend 🙂 great tutorial.
Great tutorial. But, do you have any idea how to make bell sounds
Thanks in advance 🙂