Its Clipping

So this tutorial is how to create a swing template to use for quantization in FLStudio. It was inspired by a post on the Image-Line forums by the user Umixmusic  (http://www.umixmusic.nl/) where he linked to this tutorial he’d found on groove templates with slicex: http://soundwrx.net/digitalmusicreviewsblog/?p=1992

I decided that I had a little information that is related that might be useful to some of you guys out there, so here is the tutorial. It specifically shows how to do it for swing, but once you know how you can apply the concepts to just making a template for grooves in general. It’s pretty handy stuff.

First open up FLStudio. Draw in a line of notes in the step sequencer. Move the swing slider to the amount of swing you want for your template.

Now you need to send the notes to the piano roll so we can export them as a score file ( .fsc file. ) Right click the channel you drew notes in and choose send to piano roll.

Now go into the file menu and choose File, then Save score as… Before you do this, you could also change the velocities to make some notes louder or quieter if you wanted to.

Now just save it as something meaningful in the quantization folder (or a subfolder of it if you want.) You now have a swing template at whatever percentage swing you like.

To use the quantize, choose it from the tools menu or use the Alt+Q shortcut, now apply the quantize to anything you want to be quantized to your template.

Don’t forget that you can make templates for any grooves this way, they don’t have to be only swing based or all the same. You can copy any groove you make as a template for further use later. Experiment, and enjoy.