Fl Studio Dubstep Trance Style
'Shocking FL Studio: Big Room House' is a comprehensive FL Studio Template. This tutorial shows you a cleverly designed track made with precision, power and with amazing sounds and drums. This project provides you perfectly selected samples and mixing techniques. This template will increase your knowledge in making Big Room bangers. The Modern Melodic Dubstep - FL Studio template as heard in the demo. Project Features All MIDI and Audio channels with FX chains and mixing included All the MIDI files included All the Audio files included All the Synthesizer presets inclu.
Here’s the beat:Ok. For a Dubstep beat, you’ll need to create a syncopated drum rhythm using punchy kick, punchy snare with a touch of reverb (big snare is important in good Dubstep beat!), plus some hihats and a modulating (wobble) bassline with wall shaking sub bass tones.In my example beat, I used some really cool third-party plugins (all free!):, and.Also, I didn’t create my own drum samples. Instead, I used the commercial sample pack for thatAlright, let’s get this thing rollin’!Choosing The Drum SamplesI’ll start a new FL Studio project and set the project tempo to 140bpm (in Dubstep, tempo is usually around 140bpm).Next, I’ll pick the drum samples. First, the kick: I’ve found that a kick drum with a power and punch in around the 100-120Hz area and not too long sub tail works well in Dubstep.
I mean, those 808 -style low hip hop boom kicks doesn’t seem to work very well (and there’s most likely going to be some mixing issues as the 50Hz and below area will just get too crowded as the bassline is going to be ruling that frequency range). The kick really needs to be punchy, short, sharp and hard-hitting. These kind of kicks can be found in many of those free house or trance sample packs available in the net.
Punch is the key.I could’ve also created my own kick drum by using layering (check out my tutorial on or search more on Youtube), but I’m happy with the samples I found in that sample collection.Ok. After finding a nice kick sample, I drop it to an empty Sampler Channel and rename it to ‘kick’ and also I’m gonna use colors to keep things organized (that is done by right clicking on the Channel in the Step Sequencer and selecting ‘Rename / color’ from the menu). Next, the snare. Right kind of snare is very important for a hard hitting Dubstep beat. It needs to be punchy – mostly in the 180-200Hz area. A hip hop hand claps (and I mean those sloppy ones) or short and too dry snares wont work as good. 909 style basic snare samples, with a bit longer tail seems to work pretty well.I found a nice snare from the Deadmau5 XFER pack.I could’ve used layering with the snare as well: layering two or three snare samples together (and mixing in some claps too) and boosting slightly the 180-200Hz area a bit with a peaking filter with narrow bandwidth would’ve most likely given me a punchy snare sample I’m after for.Moving on.I’ll drop my chosen snare sample to an empty Sampler Channel, rename it to ‘snare’ and use the same color as with the ‘kick’.Next, I need a closed hi-hat sample.
A standard short closed hi-hat will do fine. I picked mine from the sample pack (btw, that is an awesome sample pack for Drum & Bass as well).And finally, the open hihat (ride cymbal works well too).
I’m relying on the Deadmau5 XFER sample collection again and dropping the sample to an empty Sampler Channel and renaming/coloring it.Few words about choosing the drum samples: Usually, when I start building a beat, I firstly throw in a basic set of samples, build a basic, rough drum sequence and press play. Then, while the beat is playing, I start replacing the samples I’m not happy with – on-the-fly. Sometimes I end up replacing all the samples I originally choosed for. The thing is, there needs to be a some kind of drum sequence playing to be able to hear whether the samples work together or not. Of course, any sample can be made to work together via proper tweaking (tuning, EQ’ing, compression, etc), but I’ve found it’s much much easier and faster to have a rather large collection of samples, cycle through them and use replacing to find a working combination. (Or I’m just lazy). Anyway, this was the method I used to find the samples I’m using in this tutorial.Alright.Now, I assign each sample to a free mixer track.
Here’s a tip how you can assign them all at once: in the Step Sequencer, right click on each Channel Selector so that it’s green. Open the Mixer and right click on a Insert Track and choose Link Selected Channels - Starting From This Track (or press SHIFT+CTRL+L) and the Sampler Channels will be automatically assigned to Mixer Tracks starting from your chosen track.Now I’ll start building the drum beat!Creating A Syncopated Drum BeatI’ll add a new pattern to the Playlist, Rename it to ‘drums’ and open the Step Sequencer, place a kick on steps 1 & 7, snare to step 9, closed hi-hats to steps 1-5, 7-12, 15 & 16, open hi-hat to steps 5 & 13. I think this is one of the most basic drum patterns in Dubstep:Now, the volume levels between the sounds aren’t in balance so a little tweaking needs to be done:. Kick will be left to 0.0dB. That is what I usually do with a kick. Then I mix everything else so that they support the kick and not compete with it. Snare volume needs to be dropped slightly, to -0.7dB to be specific, and boost the 8kHz range by 2.8dB (using the channel EQ) to add some sparkle.
Closed hi-hats will be set to -6.8dB (I also panned it 16% to left). Open hi-hat works with -10.3dB volume settings (I panned it to 12% right).Ok. This is how the beat sounds:Cool.Now, while the snare sounds ok, it could be better so I’ll drop Rough Rider to it’s effect slot for some quite extreme compression. Here’s the settings I used:. Ratio to 50:1. Attack to 1.0.
Release to 2.3. Sensitivity to -40dB. Makeup to 29dB.This kind of compression shapes the character of the snare quite a lot. It boosts the volume of the quieter release part (the tail) a lot making it sound fuller, bigger and sort of like ‘pressurized’ if you know what I mean.Compare the difference. First the snare without compression:And with compression:I’m also going to use reverb to make it sound even bigger. Hi Petri againI do enjoy working through your tutorials and my music feels all the better for what I’ve learned from you.I too use the method of having lots of samples and cycling through repetitively to find beats loops and pieces that work aurally before fine tuning using EQ etc.This isn’t lazy but a method used in the studio by groups since the 60’s.
As an example listen to the Beatles anthology, interestingly some of the takes used have double figures, and can’t just be because of false starts etc. They were trying out melodies, time signatures and instruments ” Live and on the fly”.using a computer to do the same is just maxing the available technology for our purpose.Also we can’t afford unlimited studio time. LOLHave a Peaceful Xmas and New YearIan.
Petri,I have to admit that you’ve done more than just SUPERB TUTORIAL – it’s some kind of ‘illiteracy liquidation’ in dubstep music making! 😉 Awesome!To be honest, I’m deeply impressed (again!) HOW you’ve managed to make it – just 3xOsc, couple of samples & free third party VST & FL effects!For sure, power is in patience & excellent understanding of basic soft – not in all these expensive commercial hi-tech VST synths & FXAnyway, many THX for this brilliant gift – someone of us will make you famous one day, I predict!
I Must say this tutorial was simplistic and very very informative, from which you can really grown your own ideas and add whatever you want. I loved this a lot!!! I used FL Studio for a long time already, possibly counting since the start till now would total to 9 years. Yet from seeing these tutorials I must say, I feel like I just begin to realize how FL Studio is just much more extensive and beyond limits than what a lot of people judge about it. Trance music was my main goal most of the time, and I have been working on remixing a choir song by Libera into a dubstep style but due to lack of knowledge of usage of tools it’s going a little bit slow for me, especially since i’m using the ” guess+click ” method.However, with this tutorial, my project will probably land into the export soon!!!
Thank you very much Petri Suhonen!!! I’m still pretty new in music production, i started playing around with FL 2 months ago.I discovered this site and i must say i’ve learnt so much things thanks to it.
This tutorial is amazing, you are so clear in explaining things that may seem impossible to release or produce ( before checking your explanation ).These step by step illustrated texts and videos are really well made, and i can’t imagine the time you must put into them. One can feel passion in your tutorial, and that’s why i love watching and reading them.Thanks for the impressive amount of knowledge you’re sharing for free for everybody. This site turned into one of my favorite ever, no doubt.THANK YOU!
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This is very, very helpful! Hey Petri!I’m currently working my way through this tutorial entirely for the 2nd time and having the time of my life! What can I say? YOU’RE MY HERO!!
LOL!Anyhow, I REALLY love dubstep especially the harder grouchier drops. But in general I just love music.My two sons introduced me to dubstep and they’ve been trying to figure out how to make some of their own stuff.I only wish you could’ve been here to see the expression on my youngest sons face when I played this beat for him. He just sat there smiling bigger than ever then he just simply said.
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” You did this? Lolneedless to say He’s now following your site and tutorials as we speak. Thank you for all the hard work you’ve put in with these tutorials. Cause for me and my two sons. Its been a true gift. One that I was able to have a part in giving to them.
Hi MASTER Petri you saved my life, I was about to give up on fl studio because I was anoid by its sound. I must confess that I was the one who did not know how to use daw effectively.
Thanks a lot man. Can you please also show how to make a hard style beat for RnB and Hip Hop and please advice me about the affordable laptop excep macbook that can help me to do the job as well as best head phones for beat making. I cant afford monitor speakers for now and beat making is my first love I want it to be my profession.