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You can change the curve by right clicking an envelope point and choosing the curve type from the menu. I’m using the Patterns -scheme because there’s a nice ready made volume preset I’m going to use).įirst, I create a couple of “jumps” in time (stutters) using the Hold curve envelope. You can empty all the slots by choosing the preset ‘Default’ from the top right corner of the Gross Beat. (When you start the Gross Beat, it loads the ‘Patterns’ preset -scheme by default meaning all the Time and Volume slots are filled with factory presets. The first slot is empty, but rest are filled with factory presets. This sets the Envelope Mapping Panel to target a time based manipulations.Įnvelope data stored in the Slots can be emptied by choosing ‘Reset’ under the Mapping Options. Snap determines how the envelope points snap to the nearest time/volume grid division in the Envelope Mapping Panel. So what I’m going to do next is I make things glitch using the time manipulation.įirst I set the Snapping settings to 1/8 beat (default).
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Either the time or volume can be manipulated. The center of all the manipulations is the Envelope Mapping Panel and it can be controlled using the standard FL Studio envelope editing features. Gross Beat stores audio in a 2-bar rolling buffer controlled by 36 time and 36 volume mapping envelopes for easy beat-synced glitch, stutter, repeat, scratching and gating effects. Now, Gross Beat is a real-time, audio-stream playback, pitch, position and volume manipulation effect. (The Portamento mode which I enabled in the 3xOsc Miscellaneous settings tab also adds its own flavor to the slides.)įirst I assign the 3xOsc to a free mixer track and drop the Gross Beat to it’s effect slot. Next I head to the Piano Roll and make the sequence. I’m going to use slide notes to create pitch slides. Next, under the Miscellaneous Channel Settings, I enable the Portamento mode (enabling Portamento slides the pitch from note to note) and set the Portamento time (slide length between notes) to 0:09. I also raise the filter resonance level a bit (to 11 o’clock) and I’m using SVF LPx2 as the filter type. Later on I will automate the Release for adding a little extra interest to the lead sequence. Next, I enable the volume envelope under the Instrument Properties tab, set the Attack time to zero, Sustain level to maximum and Release time to minimum (for now). I don’t know them before trying & testing various different combinations):
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I’m just saying this if you’re wondering how I know the exact settings.
GROSS BEAT FREE ALTERNATIVE TRIAL
It took quite a lot of experimentation and trial & error to make them sound as is. Source of this sound is – once again – 3xOsc so I just load an instance of it and start by choosing a square wave as the shape for each oscillator and setting the coarse tune to -24 semitones for each ( Note that all the sounds and settings you are seeing me creating in this tutorial is made beforehand and basically I just replicate them here – that’s what I always do with my tutorials. In this tutorial I will show you how I made a wonky and glitchy lead sequence using 3xOsc and Gross Beat.