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Hum a Melody Into the FL Studio Piano Roll
If you've ever had a melody that you could hum, but couldn't figure out the notes, or if you want a quicker way to figure out what notes are in your melody idea, this tutorial is for you. This tutorial will show you how to hum a melody into the Piano Roll using Edison in FL Studio.
First you'll need a microphone of some sort, any can work. My laptop has a built-in mic so I'll be using that. If I wanted to use my actual humming in the song, I would definitely use a nicer mic, but the point of this technique is to get an idea out fast and easy.
Enabling the on-board microphone is easy for me, depending on your audio setup it might look different for you. If you don't have a mic on your computer, maybe you have a computer desktop mic or a high-quality microphone that you use for recording, any of these will work. If you have a hand-held recording device and would prefer to use that, you could use that to create an audio file. The point is to bring audio into Edison in some way. I'll be recording directly into FL Studio. To get set up I just open my ASIO4ALL settings ( F10 > Audio > Show ASIO panel), and enable "MicIN".
Now that I have the audio input enabled in FL Studio, I'll select Mixer Insert 1 and select one of the options from the drop-down window for "IN".
If you have headphones handy, be sure to use them to avoid the possibility of a feedback loop. A feedback loop happens when a sound is being transmitted from a microphone, into a speaker, and back into the microphone again from the speaker which goes back into the microphone into the speaker again and so on. The way I described it sounds like fun, but in actuality it's high-pitched and nasty. For this tutorial, I want to achieve this under the worst-case scenario that I don't have headphones, imagining that I'm in a classroom, and just before class starts I want to capture the inspiration even though I didn't bring headphones.
So while I record in FL Studio, I'll disable the track from sending to the master, effectively muting it, but not disabling it. This won't be necessary if you are using headphones.
Next, load an instance of Edison in the Effects Rack of the Mixer Track, and select "Record" "On Play".
You could set the tempo of FL Studio to roughly match the melody's speed. Something you might consider is humming the melody at a slower tempo so that it's easier to vocalize. If the melody you have in mind is fast and complex, you may even want to hum it at half the tempo. Once it's in the piano roll, you can change the tempo however you'd like. A good way to get the right tempo is to open FL Studio's Tap Tempo and tap along as you hum.
Next, I'll set up the recording panel to suit my situation. If I was recording with headphones, I might enable the FL Studio metronome, but because I'm not, the metronome would show up in the recording, which might complicate things when Edison analyzes the notes. Instead, I'll just go with the metronome countdown and try to stay on beat. In order for the metronome countdown to work, I'll need to enable recording mode, even though I'm not recording into the playlist or a pattern.
Since Edison is set to record on play, all we have to do is press play on the main FL Studio transport panel, listen to the countdown, and go! Although I've been saying "hum" throughout this tutorial, I do recommend vocalizing with oohs and/or ahs, to try to create as pure a sound as possible. Press stop on the main transport panel and on Edison after recording to see the file.
Next thing is you have to normalize the audio that you recoerded.
From here, we can have Edison send the notes to the piano roll, but that won't do us any good if we don't have an instrument to play it with, so I'll open an instance of FL Keys, you may use any instrument of your choosing.
First, make sure the instrument is open and selected, then on Edison, under Tools, there is a semi-hidden feature near the end of list that says "Analysis: Convert to Score and Dump to Piano Roll". We'll select that.
After the score is dumped into the piano roll, make some adjustments to it. It is also good to have a pitch correction plugin on top of edison so you can have a fine tuned audio, that way you won't take much time.
** This tutorial is from the WARBEATS website**
hope you'll learn from it....
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