#FL STUDIO VOLUME ENVELOPE HOW TO#

The volume envelope is a nice feature, because it is built into the preset, but there are several methods to control the volume to create those fader effects (although you do lose the nice reference to the time envelope in Wave Traveller):ДЄ) if you are using a bar or less of time, you can use Gross BeatвЂ™s volume envelope to control the volume which has a bigger and more precise interface Д«) You can create an automation envelope for the volume for the Wave Traveller Channel Д¬) You can assign a MIDI controller (e.g., APC40вЂ™s cross fader) to control the volume for the Wave Traveller Channel.ДЇor the purposes of this tutorial, IвЂ™m not going to add any volume envelope within Wave Traveller, because IвЂ™m going to use Gross Beat to glitch up the sound and I can add use the volume slots to create those fader affects to have a more smoother and more natural sounding gate.

The volume envelope (purple) can be manipulated to create those gating effects that make the scratch more interesting: Think of the red line as your hand moving around the vinyl to create the sound effect, while the volume envelope is the fader. For instance, a line represents a even playback speed while curved slopes will give those slow down and speed up effects that emulate the turntables well. The line style indicates the playback speed. The horizontal position in the grid represents the time position which you can set, but the default is one bar (i.e., 4 beats).

The vertical position in the grid represents the position on the wave that is being played (youвЂ™ll notice in the example above, the highest peak corresponds to right before the second large transient on the vertically orientated sample and also in the representation on the horizontally orientated sample). You can then manipulate the time envelope like this to create a scratch effect: The sample will display horizontally above the keyboard on the left, and vertically on the right-most side of the GUI. Assign the sample by dragging and dropping it onto the GUI. You can assign a sample, time pattern, and volume pattern for each key on the keyboard on the lower left. The Wave Traveller GUI looks like this when you load it. Open Wave Traveller and Choose a Sample to Manipulate

#FL STUDIO VOLUME ENVELOPE HOW TO#

This tutorial is going to demonstrate the power of Wave Traveller and then show you how to add some additional time effects with Gross Beat to make some wild glitched scratch sounds. Then if you really want to go bananas with some time and volume effects drop Gross Beat into the Effects of the Mixer channel Wave Traveller is assigned to. The end result is that you can emulate a lot of turntable tricks pretty well with this handy and simple plug-in. Wave Traveller lets you drag in a sample and then apply separate time and volume envelopes similar to Gross Beat, but with the waveform visible so that you really know where to line up the time envelope. Having started out DJing with my 1200s and a ton of old pop, disco and hip hop records that I had collected growing up in the 80s, I always loved the turntable tricks and admired those DJs that werenвЂ™t just matching beats, but could really rock the decks with a ton of turntable skills.

I have been experimenting with a FL Studio plug-in called Wave Traveller that is pretty cool, but then again I love a well timed scratch in a track or live set.

Fl studio volume envelope