The first one. I admire the art of sampling and flipping music and I want to do it myself.
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that's an outlet that's going to get you far. Not just sampling and flipping but hearing something in your head and being able to bring it to life. Whether it's piano, drums, guitar, bass even other instruments. Even with drawing and painting being able to think "I small blue bird sitting in a branch facing away toward tall grass and a lake" and then making that happen. Or even writing a story. It's powerful.
Only thing I can say is choose one device or program it and read the manual, whether it's hard copy or PDF. Read it from front to back because it's going to tell you where things are, what things do and how to access them. Therefore when you see something like
You know what every knob is, what every effect is. And you aren't just tweaking knobs and settings til something sounds good and adjusting when things either sound bad or don't sound right.
Youre going to know "okay, I want to change the attack or the velocity and increase the delay" and you are going to know exactly what happens.
When you want to find a setting, effect or feature you are going to know where it's at when you need it vs googling or hitting up YouTube.
It seems like a lot to learn and it is but it's worth it. Learn what a compressor is and when to use it. Learn how to use filters to separate bass and drums, melodies.
It doesn't matter what you use. I learned in hardware because I didn't want to be stuck in front of a computer. So with my mpc and the manual I loaded up a kick drum. And I went through the manual and read each parameter and saw in real time "ok what happens when I adjust the release" played with it and put it back to normal "ok what happens when I play the the sustain" played with it and put it back to normal, did the same for attack, velocity and delay. Ran it through filters. Pitched it up and down, time stretched it.
You can do all the same shyt in FL and the features do the same shyt, you just gotta read the manual and find out where everything is in FL.
It's definitely worth it.
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