Hope these questions arent getting old, but seeing as it might help someone else as well, here it goes

Is there anyway to send many differnt percussion samples
(ie several hats, kicks, snares what have you)
Into the same channel on the piano roll?

Something like what a sliced up loop looks like, except with putting in several of your own elements that are not in the same loop

Creating a new pattern (cut and paste all the old elements)
Just to change one little thing gets old quick

So im thinking if this was possible i could have just one channel for my beat instead of having to work with 10 or more individual channels

Cheers, and thanks for the help on previous questions

~SiK

It's called the FPC.

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Hey. Short answer yes, but it does take a little bit to set up. I decided this is best illustrated rather than just text so just follow the iamges and thier descriptions.



This, obviously, is a blank project we have all come to know.



First, add a Layer instrument by going to Channels > Add One > Layer.



Next, you need to set the 'children' (or controlled) instruments of the layer. First, left-click once on the Layer instrument to open its properties window. Now right-click on the little green indicator LED to the right of the instrument button to turn it off. Now, right-click next to your percussion instruments so that the LEDs next to those instruments are lit. Now, click 'set children'. Now, if you were to press a key on your keyboard or play with the piano roll, you hear all the instruments at once, which is not what we want.



Click on the kick channel to open the properties window and then go to the 'misc' tab.



Left-click once on key, C4. This sets a zone. The only key that will sound for the kick, will now be C4. [NOTE: To turn a zone off, hold Alt and left click.]



Right-click once on C4 now. This changes the root note. Leaving the root at C5 will make it so the kick is lower than it is normally. Changing the root key to the zoned note will make it sound the normal way.





These are just images showing the zones for the rest of the instruments. You can get more advanced with things like the hats. Left-clicking and dragging will increase the size of the zone as well as shrink it. So if you wanted a range of an octave for your hats, this is possible.



This last image shows the whole thing brought together.


You can use FPC as well but you are limited on what you can do with it compared to doing it this way. I hope this helps .

Cheers,
Zac

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Beside the pitch knob on the plugin control you can specify how many semitones the pitch control envelops, up to 4 octaves... so essentially you have just as much control with FPC as you do in the piano roll. You just need to use the pitch control in the piano roll to change notes. Much easier than using a layer.

The thing with all the fruity plugs is that they are all pretty much completely compatible, so if you can do something with one plug, you can do it with another, be it the 3xOsc, or Slicer, or whatever.

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Last edited by djglacial on Mar-13-2006 at 00:44

I feel kinda like a lazy bastard expecially after those posts props for the great answers

Ive been messing with FL on and off for a while but now i feel like its really taking off, especially since i found this place

thanks again mates
~SiK

great explanation dark sword!

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