Click and drag the control points to move them around. You can see 36 empty slots for both Volume and Time.Ĭlick on an empty volume slot, select a grid snap, and right-click in the grid to create your own control points. Navigate to “Default” again in the drop down menu. Gross Beat also gives you the option to create your own volume slots. The sample gets sent through the Gross Beat patch, and then to the Master bus. Step 2: Route the sample to the Gross Beat Mixer trackįind the newly-added sample in the Channel rack and route it to the Gross Beat Mixer track.
Toggle it on or off using the button in the toolbar circled below: In this case, it’s 125 BPM, as indicated in the sample file name and by the Splice library.Īlso make sure that FL Studio is in Song mode, since we have the sample in the Playlist. Once downloaded, just click and drag your sample from the FL Studio Browser/Plugin picker to the Playlist.įor the best effect, we need to change FL Studio’s tempo setting to match the sample’s tempo. I chose a nice vocal sample from the “Roniit Silk Vocal Samples” pack on Splice. Step 1: Add a sample to the Playlist and match the sample tempo The horizontal position on the grid is time moving forward, and the vertical position on the grid is volume. In Gross Beat, volume automation is done using a grid. Volume gates are used on vocals in a wide array of electronic music genres including trance and progressive house. Now that we’re a little more familiar with how Gross Beat works, we can use it with Splice samples to make our own gated vocal effects in FL Studio. These buttons can be used to toggle between Volume envelope editing and Time envelope editing.Grid snap presets allow for different snapping intervals for your control points.This wheel is what is being automated by the Time envelope. The time offset wheel can be clicked-and-dragged in real time to apply a time and pitch offset.The volume envelope tension knob controls the ‘springiness’ of the ATT and REL knobs.
The volume envelope release knob controls how fast the volume envelope will reach its designated values when going from a higher volume to a lower volume, from 0 ms to 1000 ms.The volume envelope attack knob controls how fast the volume envelope will reach its designated values when going from a lower volume to a higher volume, from 0 ms to 100 ms.You can click on the set of arrows or the drop down menu at the top right of Gross Beat’s user interface to access presets that change the volume and time slot banks.Ĭlick a Time or Volume slot to change the active time or volume envelope to that specific slot preset. The volume slot preset bank stores volume envelope presets.The time slot preset bank stores time envelope presets.The volume mix level knob changes how much of the volume effect envelope is being applied to the Mixer track, and also ranges from 0% to 100%.The time mix level knob changes how much of the time/pitch effect is being applied to the Mixer track that Gross Beat is on, ranging from 0% to 100%.Add Gross Beat to any blank Mixer track and click on it to open the UI. First, let’s take a look at the user interface. We’ll be using FL Studio 12 to showcase how you can use Gross Beat to soup up your Splice samples. In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Gross Beat’s inner workings and how you can use Gross Beat to turn a simple sample into your own work of genius – let’s get started. It can also automate volume to create gates and other similar effects, and even apply both volume and time/pitch shift effects simultaneously. Gross Beat can take a sample or instrument and apply a user-defined time and pitch shifting envelope. Gross Beat is a volume and time/pitch automation effect VST made by Image-Line, the same company behind the popular DAW, FL Studio. Illustration: Niv Bavarksy Gross Beat has made a big name for itself in the world of music production.
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