Vocals work great as risers. All you need is a vocal sample and loop in a proper point and off you go. Its very easy and quick to do in FL Studio and in this tutorial I will show you how.
First, here’s an audio example:
And here’s how you create it:
First, pick up a vocal sample from your sample collection and drop it to a Sampler Channel (for vocal samples, check out the free Deep South Rap Acapella sample pack for example or Google some more):
In the Channel Settings -panel, enable volume envelope and edit it as follows:
Load the sample to Edison (right click on the Sample View and choose ‘Edit’), make a short selection and press ALT + L to set the loop points:
Select the whole sample (CTRL + A) and drag it to the Sampler Channel using the Drag -tool to apply the loop point settings:
Enable the ‘Use loop points’ (should be on by default):
Open the Piano Roll and draw an 8 bar long C5 note:
Set the Channel Pitch Knob Range to 24 Semitones (or more) and create an automation clip for the Pitch -knob and edit the Pitch envelope like this:
And finally, add effects to your taste. I’ve found delay effects works great:
Try changing the loop points to your taste for different sounding risers.
The end. 8)
Watch the video below:
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Awesome man!! Really helpful! Tnx again! You’re the best!
thx!
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Thanks in advance! /Sebs
Thanks man!
PS. I checked some of your tunes, pretty good stuff 8)
Really helpful man! I most like tuts like this! Keep it up! 🙂
Thanks!!
I like these fast & smart tutorials!
Keep them up, man! THX!
Thank you Max!
fantastic petri… thank you..!!!
No problem, Charles thanks for checking!
Nice tutorial… thx!
Thanks!
Why wont my pitch nob change the pitch of the sample?
I had the same problem, googled it, and found out that you have to do this:
Channel Settings > Sample propterties (the SMP tab) > under Time stretching, right-click on Time and press “(none)”.
Hey Buvk,
What Christian said above, should help.
Awesome tutorial man. Thanks!
Thank you Jason!
Hey man, and thank you for a great tutorial!
However, I’m having some trouble.
When I automate the pitch knob, it doesn’t respond to whatever is entered in pitch knob range. It just goes to a very high pitch really fast, and it doesn’t matter if I’ve entered 1 semitone or 24 semitones.
This only happens when I automate it via a automation clip: if I manually change the knob, it gives me correct results. Help on this, please?
Hey Christian,
Did you first set the pitch knob range and after that create the automation clip? Also, I’m assuming you’re trying to create a riser: what kind of envelope curve are you using (what’s the start and end values of your envelope)?
Le me know.
PS. Thanks for checking the tutorial, btw!
I tried again, doing these steps in this order:
1. Added a vocal sample to a sampler channel.
2. Created the loop.
3. Set the pitch knob range to 24 semitones.
4. Created an automation clip, with starting point at 50%, and going to 100% over 4 bars. It seems that the knob in the channel reaches 100% when the automation clip is at 75%. However, the pitch keeps rising, even after the knob has reached 100%.
I hope you understand what I mean.
Found this site through Google–great find!
Thanks for the details steps and video, keep it up.
Yeah, you have a really good stuff over here, thanks!
Where can i find the vocal sample you used on the tutorial?
You are a very great teacher petri…….
Thanks for the many lesson i have seen
great. thank you gonna do some crazy stuff 🙂
awesome tutorial! but how can i make the riser flow with the whole vocal? i want to put what comes before and then have the riser
Thanks a lot dude, this is really very helpfull, fast and simple. Nice work
THANKS! VERY NICE!
You deserve a really hard high five 😛
Thank you so much
hey, where do I get those samples?:D
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Hey Petri !!
Very nice This is something i was not able to figure out by my self.
But…: can u tell me if its possible to Automate the Loop points In a sample ? ( for instance ..: Automate the Last Marker of the Loop to make it go faster like in this part..: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8HP3RRRbns )
or how do u mae something like that ?
Thnx a bunch
This is really great man! You have helped me overcome my fear of FL Studio. Used to fear it all this while. Cheers.
how can i make this effect in cubase?? (i have Edison External VST)
Thanks bro!
how is made the rise vocal’s ending, like gangnam style (ouuuaaaa)?
Hi Petri thx for the tutorial but this works only if i disable “TIME” in the INS -> VOL section… how is this possibile?