What applies to an existing sample, applies to a newly recorded sample as well. But the point is that you now have the ‘raw material’ to work with. And now that you have the melody in the Piano Roll, you can manipulate it the way you like! This is usually necessary as you may want to shift the note events in time and pitch, adjust the length of indivual note events, etc. Play this pattern and you will notice that it resembles the pitch and pitch changes in the sample fairly good. See below:Īfter this, have a look at the Step Sequencer and the Piano Roll for the channel. Go back to Edison and choose Convert to score and dump to Piano Roll in the Tools menu. I added the Autogun plugin, but any other (non percussion) generator will do. See below:īefore we convert this short sample to a score, open the Step Sequencer (F6) and add a channel to your liking. Select FLS_DontStopMeNow_02.wav and click Open.

See below:Īnd navigate to the Vocals folder as shown below: First, start a new empty project and load Edison in the first FX slot of the Mixer. Let’s try it out with one of the vocal samples that comes with FL Studio. You can find it here: How to record external audio sources in FL Studio If you do not know how to record audio and/or have never heard of Edison, I suggest you skim through that tutorial first. Now, I’ve written another tutorial on how to record audio, which also discusses the Edison tool. If you have a nice melody in your head (or perhaps you have a cool (vocal) sample) but do not quite know how to program it in the Piano Roll, let Edison do the job for you. In my search for useful features I came across one that is not so obvious. FL Studio tutorial explaining how to convert Edison samples to Piano Roll scores

Fl studio edison tutorial