In the top left arrow of Gross Beat, hover over Presets.Today’s focus is Gross Beat, a time mangling effect from Image-line’s FL Studio, introduced way back in 2008. Gross Beat has more preset options than what I showed! (Which isn’t the easiest to find!) More Selection in Gross BeatĪfter creating this tutorial, I watched a few tutorials on Gross Beat for my own knowledge, and I found out a powerful tip! This will keep your track sounding exactly how you want, without fighting the picture FL Studio takes when creating an automation clip. This keep your loop uneffected before the automation clip, and won’t lock it in place.Īnd once your automation clip is done, be sure to add a point at the end and copy + paste the value of the beginning into the end point. But if you start the song from the beginning, the sound plays at the original place you created the automation clip.Ī work around is to create the automation clip at zero, or how ever you want the track to sound when it’s not being effected. So if your automation clip slowly rises upward, it will stay upward until the end of the song. If you’ve noticed in FL Studio, if you create an automation clip for a sound, it permanently sets it in place. It gives me way more control on changing slots, and making my loop sound how I want! Points to Consider I find if I select TRIG SYNC and POS SYNC as OFF, it frees up that slot in Gross Beat, allowing for quick changes and manipulation. In the bottom right of Gross Beat, you will see a few options: So how do you prevent this? – It’s to do with Trig Sync and Pos Sync. It kind of like locks in the manipulation until the 4 beats are over.
In the video tutorial above, I talk about how Gross Beat gets Trapped. Gross Beat Gets Trapped and Won’t Change Slots If it’s on Single curve it works its way down each slot, doing manipulations that you don’t want at that time. Note – You’ll want to change the end point at the very end of the automation clips to hold as well to avoid the downwards slope, as if it were on Single curve. Then right click again on the point, and it will give you different types of points. Right click to create a point on your automation clip. So by copying the value of a slot, you get the precise plot for an easy workflow.Ī powerful tip to use Gross Beat with precision is the hold option with automation clips. Inside your automation clip, you have from 0 to 100% – In between 100%, it will choose different slots. This copies the exact spot of where the slot is in regards to percentage in your automation clip. To copy and paste your automation clips for precision, left click the slot you want to play, right click and select Copy Value. Now’s time where I create points, and copy + paste values for precision. You should now have an automation clip created in your playlist! Left click on the slot you want, now right click on it, and select Create Automation Clip. Highlight the area on your playlist where you want to create an automation clip. Once you have a general idea, it’s time to create an automation clip.
So in this tutorial, we’ll go over some powerful tips to take control of Gross Beat.įirst, play around with different slots to see what manipulations / volume effects suite your track.
#GROSS BEAT AUTOMATION HOW TO#
If you click on a slot, your track will start to be manipulated, but you can’t figure out how to make it stop, or change to another slot quickly. Gross Beat can be a confusing plugin in regards to how it works. But for my uses, I just like to use automation clips. The plugin also allows for live performance, if linked to a MIDI Controller. It consists of two main sections: Time Manipulation and Volume Manipulation. In addition to Gross Beat, there are also other time-manipulation plugins like: In other words, instead of you having to manually click and create effects with automation and various other complex techniques to apply these stutters, glitches, and reverse-type effects, Gross Beat is a plugin that saves you time in your productions. Gross beat is a time and volume manipulation effect designed for repetition, scratching, and gating effects.
#GROSS BEAT AUTOMATION MANUAL#
So here’s how Image-Line’s help manual describes the plugin: (As long as your DAW can use VST2 plugins, which all DAWs can, you’re good to go!)
#GROSS BEAT AUTOMATION PRO#
They have made Gross Beat a cross-platform plugin, allowing you to use it in DAWs like Ableton, Cubase, Pro Tools, Bitwig, etc. Image-Line, the makers of FL Studio, are also the developers behind Gross Beat. In this article, we will cover how to use Gross Beat in FL Studio.
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