swing on Fl Studio

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Do any of you people who use FL use the swing feature. I have never used it before and was wandering what it does exactly.
 
Actually a good question. I saw someone use this in a FL tutorial but still don't have a clue on what it does.
 
when you make a drum track on the step sequencer and move the swing bar a lil to the right, the beat will be swing style, free almost dragging. The more to the right, the swingier it gets. It's a nice feature, but it doesn't swing the instruments, you have to cut every single note till it sounds like it swinging.
 
I use the samplers "time fine shift" knob myself that way you can change the timing of every different channel.
 
Drama06 said:
It's a nice feature, but it doesn't swing the instruments, you have to cut every single note till it sounds like it swinging.
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It is a cool feature. Try turning the swing to just like 25% or 50% on one of your tracks, and it will make a big difference.

It doesn't do anything to any drums or instruments in your piano roll, though.

To do those, open your piano roll, and hit 'ctrl + q' to open the quantize settings, then pick a quantize that fits your track. You can make some funky sh*t with those features.

And just so you know, the swing only changes the time between 1/16 notes, so if you just have 1/8 notes playing steady, like a hi-hat rhythm, it won't really do anything to it.
 
good qustion, i might try that next time. thanks
 
jay_jizle said:


It is a cool feature. Try turning the swing to just like 25% or 50% on one of your tracks, and it will make a big difference.

It doesn't do anything to any drums or instruments in your piano roll, though.

To do those, open your piano roll, and hit 'ctrl + q' to open the quantize settings, then pick a quantize that fits your track. You can make some funky sh*t with those features.

And just so you know, the swing only changes the time between 1/16 notes, so if you just have 1/8 notes playing steady, like a hi-hat rhythm, it won't really do anything to it.
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This reminds me you can work in most any program. It just might take some reading and experimenting.

Just like people go back and forth about Mac vs. PC. Hell, I have a computer scientist background and work experience way back, and I'll let you in on a big-a$$ secret - they are both just fancy calculators. The levels of abstraction that are built on them, and the business choices that companies make as to what they wish to commercially develop on which platform, that is what makes one "better" for this or that.
 
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