This is where you would arrange your song by
defining parts like the intro , verses ,chorus and
more. You can also use this view to visualize
automation and even some basic editing
of Pattern sequences and audio clips .
This tutorial assumes you have some data
already defined in your Patterns. Please see the
[Patterns tutorial] for more information on that
process. I recommend that you download this
sample project and open it in FL Studio .
Playlist_Example.FLP
The Playlist can be selected from the toolbar
button: or by pressing F5.
Clicking the button or pressing F5 again will
toggle the Playlist on or off.
Let's begin by looking at the basic parts of
aPlaylist :
You can see a couple of areas of interest. First
we see the toolbar across the top. Below that is
a scrollbar. And below the scroll bars are
markers indicating measure of time.
There is a split area below that. One section
(usually the upper section) represents the clip
areaand the other (usually the bottom) is
the pattern block area. the pattern block area
can be identified by the list of patterns running
down the left side and the small square grid
sections.
We'll cover the tool bars in a more advanced
tutorial. For now, lets just concentrate on
getting some basic arrangement using
the playlist .
If you opened the project above, you should will
have three patterns to work with.
Pattern Block
In the playlist window we will arrange them in a
specific order. Go to the playlist make sure you
scroll the view all the way to the left. Find
the pattern block area, click on the left side
where it is labelled Pattern 1 to activate teh
pattern. You can now click to the right where
you see the grid and draw blocks into the grid
for the row labelled Pattern 1 .
We have just put a our basic drum beat down.
Make sure you repeat the blocks going to the
right 8 time
defining parts like the intro , verses ,chorus and
more. You can also use this view to visualize
automation and even some basic editing
of Pattern sequences and audio clips .
This tutorial assumes you have some data
already defined in your Patterns. Please see the
[Patterns tutorial] for more information on that
process. I recommend that you download this
sample project and open it in FL Studio .
Playlist_Example.FLP
The Playlist can be selected from the toolbar
button: or by pressing F5.
Clicking the button or pressing F5 again will
toggle the Playlist on or off.
Let's begin by looking at the basic parts of
aPlaylist :
You can see a couple of areas of interest. First
we see the toolbar across the top. Below that is
a scrollbar. And below the scroll bars are
markers indicating measure of time.
There is a split area below that. One section
(usually the upper section) represents the clip
areaand the other (usually the bottom) is
the pattern block area. the pattern block area
can be identified by the list of patterns running
down the left side and the small square grid
sections.
We'll cover the tool bars in a more advanced
tutorial. For now, lets just concentrate on
getting some basic arrangement using
the playlist .
If you opened the project above, you should will
have three patterns to work with.
Pattern Block
In the playlist window we will arrange them in a
specific order. Go to the playlist make sure you
scroll the view all the way to the left. Find
the pattern block area, click on the left side
where it is labelled Pattern 1 to activate teh
pattern. You can now click to the right where
you see the grid and draw blocks into the grid
for the row labelled Pattern 1 .
We have just put a our basic drum beat down.
Make sure you repeat the blocks going to the
right 8 time
