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FL Studio + This Plugin = An Instant Music Theory Upgrade!

teacher avatar Music Magic Entertainment, FL Studio, Music Production, Engineering

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      0:46

    • 2.

      Revealed !

      3:30

    • 3.

      Execution in FL Studio

      3:30

    • 4.

      Exploration & Velocity Settings

      8:05

    • 5.

      Strumming's More Fun Now

      4:05

    • 6.

      Transposing the Chords

      4:42

    • 7.

      Edit Mode: MIDI Programming

      5:15

    • 8.

      A Short Quick Tip

      0:28

    • 9.

      Tips & Tricks

      3:11

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Welcome to My Class ! 

Get ready to Experience into a Great Universe where Music, Music Production, Chords, and Music Theory collide in an Explosive Fusion, setting fire to the Very Notion of Artistic Expression.

Prepare yourself for an Extraordinary Voyage into the depths of Musical Creativity with our Mind-Blowing Course.

Brace for a Rollercoaster Ride through a Secret Plugin that Unleashes the Mind-Bending Wizardry of Instant Chord Generation.

Unleash the Essence of Music as you dive deep into the Art of whipping up Killer Chords and Harmonies that'll leave Minds Blown.

With this Super Useful Plugin, you'll be a witness to Chords popping out like Magic at the press of a Button, Smashing through all those boring Traditional Limits and Flooding your Compositions with an Irresistible Charm.

We're welcoming both Newbies and Nerds alike. We're serving up a Complete Mind-bend of Music Theory that's the backbone of every Mind-Melting Chord Progression you can dream of.

Whether you're a Total Noob looking to wrap your Brain around The Basics or a Freakin' Genius aiming to Crank your Skills up to Eleven, I got your back & i'll walk you through every aspect of this Tool to jam that Secret Plugin Straight into your Workflow.

Get ready to see your Musical Brain Waves go from Wimpy notes to Epic Musical Chord Progressions !

Jump into a Mind-blowing Journey that Flawlessly Smashes The World of Music together with Mind-Boggling Technology.

Enroll Right Now and Seize The Hidden Power of Instant Chord Making !

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1. Introduction: Hey there, your diet of spending hours trying to come up with ideas and still not getting the results you want. What if I told you that I have discovered a Secret Tool? They can instantly provide you with creative ideas. I'll say goodbye to the frustration of fitting a creative block and say hello to a world of endless inspiration and innovative ideas. With this Secret Plugin. Get ready to dominate the Creative. Seem like a pause and leave your competency is trembling and enroll in the class right now and experienced the match for yourself. I'll meet you in the class. 2. Revealed !: Hey there, thank you for enrolling into the class. And in this class will know about it. Powerful midi Plugin. These Plugin will definitely change your Workflow. And you'll work with chords and chord progressions with ease and it'll definitely make good progress and making those. So yeah, let's get started first by revealing the Plugin. It is rip card by tract bout. This is a game changer and powerful midi Plugin, which will definitely make your work easy in making Chord Progressions. I know a lot of people, nobody is Plugin, and a lot of people don't know what is Plugin, but guess what? I have a lot of hacks and tips and tricks for you guys to get the most out of it and be comfortable with using this plugin. So let's die when without wasting any time on how to install the rip cord by tripod. Okay. First we have to go to the official website or Stripe Bow. This is track but.com, rip card rehab to download the plug-in or here, it's mostly a seven MB is. After downloading, go to the location of the file where it's downloaded. So after downloading the file, we have to extract it. Whether you are using Mac or whether you are using Windows. Eight works for both Mac users. You can read the installation process over here, and you can follow up with that. So I'll extract in my personal location. Once it is done, open the fire. And you have the instructions over here. And I'll have you can import the presets, which I'll explain in the later classes. First of all, we have to go to the Windows folder or here. Then we have two more. This file to Program Files, Common Files, Vst tree. Remember this is only for 64-bit bit Plugin has not been announced yet by the official site. So it works with a 64 bit PCs for Windows. So you had to do is just copy or cut and paste in common C Program Files. Common Files. And we used to treat. And I have done here. After that, open your door. I'm using Fl Studio 20. You can use any door and you can find have to open rip cord Plugin and you know, various sites or YouTube tutorials. So if you are in fact 20, it is easy for you to follow up with me. So I have to do is just go to Manage Plug-Ins and find more Plug-Ins. So I've already installed rape Chord. So as you can see, the Plugin or here, Let's see if it's going to work or not. So the Plugin is for again. Next class, we'll know how to use this powerful midi Plugin 3. Execution in FL Studio: Let's see how this Plugin Works. Opened an instance of record. So you're not a single sound. We can't hear any sound actually. And you won't have any bruises or here. So all had to do is just go to the Settings option over here and press Import a preset file. So what installing the Plugin, you'll get a zip file. In that zip file, you will find the presets. So I'll go to the location where the presets are. These are the presets. And you can control a to select all and just click on Open. You will find plenty of basic presets provided by rip cord. Okay, So you're not getting any of the sound towards the next step. In order to listen to any of the Chords and Chord Progressions, you have to map this Plugin asset input to the Plugin, which in this case is an instrument. So I'm opening an instance of piano. We to buy Altria. And I like this Plugin a lot and I use it a lot and my productions. So I'll just go and pick this Plugin. This project is cool. I'll just go and Julie to a mixed track and add a reward. I like this a lot. So this is one of my preset. Let's see how this sounds. Sounds amazing. So after routing your Instrument, your mixer track and adding a fixed on that, just go to rip Chords. You can find the setting option here, that this option Vst rapid Settings. And here in the midi option, all you had to do is just give an output port number. In this case, zero is given as output port for the rip cord. And similarly, you have to open the other Plugin, alright, Instrument which you want, rip Chords, *** and midi input, and this will be our output. So you have to go to the same setting and go to the input boy cereal. It's worth mentioning that the numbers must definitely match or else it won't work. So after this, you have to close instance of piano or whatever the Instrument you have. Now open the rib car, and now it's Magic. So this is how you use rip card. But there's a lot of Settings we have to tweak and explore, which we'll do in a frozen glasses 4. Exploration & Velocity Settings: Okay, now let's explore the Plugin re-record. But tripod has a user-friendly interface with which you can fork what Chord Progressions with ease. This is really a powerful midi Plugin. In my opinion. To all here. You will find the favorites, the Settings, and the pipers Button. So this is the output keyboard layout, and this is the input keyword layout. Here. Two switches, one switch for edit. And once we should play. This area is entirely dedicated for the presets, actually, which you can find by clicking the presets Button. And you will find the presets which you have inputted. Let's go through each option one-by-one and explore what it does. First off, this is a favorite button, which you can favorite your preset and you can get back to that if you want. So in order to do that, all you had to do is just click this and the major keys. A is your favorites. Now, you can see the star mark boy here. Also. You can favorite different presets in the preset menu itself. So next easiest Settings menu. Here you'll find different options regarding importing and exporting files. This is the Bypass button. So if I play a note, if I bypass it, it won't play the cut. If you want to play your cut. Just go ahead own. And you can play the Chords. Next is the Record button, which I'll explain in the later section of this class. But we'll first focus on these two. So this area or here is entirely dedicated in manipulation of velocities. At this here is dedicated entirely for Strumming's. So let's go ahead and explore how the Velocity works. And here. So as you can find a series of circles here and here itself, what it does is it randomizes the direction of velocity, which here is left-to-right, right-to-left. And for the both directions. Let's see how it performs in the contest. So yeah, if I play a key, it plays a regular key. However, if I use the Velocity novel here, and now this is going left to right, which is, you can find friends. If I turn this down. See, if I change the setting over here. You'll find your hearing more high frequencies. And what if I do both? First, you'll hear the low frequencies which are dominant. Next you'll hear the high frequencies which are dominant. So let's take a look on how you can check whether the velocities are working or not. So I'll take the exact instance of the piano here. As you can see this working. So here Record button. And here there's an option which you can drag and drop to your favorite instruments. Here in this case, let's play different keys. Now, if you want to extract the media of these keys, you can recall first an up-to-date, we have to click it again. And now there's a range of midi. So all you had to do is just left-click and drag and drop into your favorite Instrument. Now you can see the media has been dropped in to the Instrument. Now if you wanted to play, it will play. So if I open the piano roll, you can see the velocities are here. So here, the a node here has the lowest Velocity. Here in the B has the highest velocity. Similarly, all the Chord Progressions has different velocities because we have activated the Velocity knob here. Now let's see how the randomization works. If I treat the randomization Button up, this is the full potential. You can just mess around and set it according to your taste. So I'll set around here. And when I play, the same key, Sounds different when I play it multiple times. C. So it, and Di Li Making the same chord sounds different by randomly changing the velocities. So let's see how this works in the context. So I just click the Record button over here and I'll play the first node. How to do is just drag and drop. So you can see that the velocities are here, are randomly changed. Here. E has the lowest Velocity and a has the highest velocity. Similarly, for everything, you'll find randomized velocities. So this is how randomization in velocities for these three options are only four velocities. In the next lesson, we'll learn how Strumming's work 5. Strumming's More Fun Now: Now let's take a look at Strumming's option over here. So whatever you do, it's trumps the keys. It's just the number Chord. Now when you move this up a little bit, you'll find the Chords are getting strummed. This option over here, it says multiple Strumming's. So the higher the more Strumming's, the lower the less roaming. And you can also strum with the direction. Here. It is left to right here. Now this is right to left. So you can do it both actually by clicking again, which shows left-to-right direction, right to left direction. So now let's play God. As you can hear, the Strumming's is kinda low. Let's increase the amount. Now you can hear the Strumming's is happening from left to right. And then right-to-left only by playing a single key. And it's not that special to be hard as to what's special about the third feature, or here is randomization or Strumming's. So what it does is it randomizes the Strumming's time actually. So you want here now, the same pattern of Strumming's for the Chords. You will instead listen to the randomization. Lets see that in the context. So when I increase the amount of randomization or here, I know it definitely find hard to tell a difference. So what I'll do is I'll just record the same Chord and drop those midi into the instruments so that you can see the manipulation that's going on. Stop the recording and it's recorded. Now take the piano. Now you can see that Strumming's is happening randomly. You can also mess around with the Strumming's option over here and Velocity option simultaneously, Duke at the most out of those Plugin. And the cards will definitely sound more natural and human-like, rather than sounding like a robot. So we'll take a look at how this will sound. So I'll increase the velocity option here, and I'll increase the randomization at a little bit. Analogist play a couple of keys. So this is about this timing option. And the velocity and the Strumming's options both simultaneously 6. Transposing the Chords: So now let's explore the final option here, which is transposing the cuts. What it does is really amazing and it's a quite powerful way to get new ideas and to get inspired with it. But these options, you will definitely be more creative and you'll definitely find the right key you are looking for. And it makes you easier to write Music in more comfortable, easy yet powerful way. Let's see that in the context. So when I hit this button, guilty to octave spot and purple color. And the red key over here represent the keys that you're playing. So it does make sense when I go into the practicals. So here we are playing C major scale and only playing the major keys. So when I had the P, which is C, C major, is showing over here, right? So when I just want to go up, two semitones, have to do is just go to semitones, 1.2. Remember, the red key here represent the keys that you're playing. If you're playing, see, it represents see if you're playing D at present state. So according to that, you have to adjust whether to transpose your keys are caught up or down the octave. So I just wanted to go do semitones up. So I'll first deselect the key to let you understand the process. So yeah, this is the empty. I didn't say anything over here. So this is just to see major T. And now I just want to go to semitones up, which is 1.2. Now you can see the Chords changing. But only playing the similar. See, it bought two semitones up. So in this way you can have unlimited possible Waves to create different kinds of cards. So if this is confusing for you, can also make these two octaves match up with the current octave of keys that you're playing. What I mean by that is you can choose these two octaves to match up with the current update that your plane. So I'll just do that. Now as you can see, this octave or here match up with this. I mean this, the CQI over here matches with the CTE. So if you want to go down to the see, all the I would select. And now you'll go one octave down. See if I deselect it. So according to which key you're playing, you can transpose the keys as you wish. Again, there are multiple ways you can create. Only using a single card. With just one Chord. You can just create a multiple Chords or here, and you can record and drag it to the Instrument. So there are unlimited possibilities for you to create and explore a wide range of gods and create a beautiful sound and Chord Progressions. So another key thing in rip cord is as you can play multiple keys at the same time to create polyphonic cuts. What I mean by that is you can play multiple keys and you can come up with a single cut. So this will definitely open another door to explore wide variety of Chords. And dual definitely will create a great sounding chord progressions. That's it for this class. We'll explore the edit section over here and the Settings section at the next class. 7. Edit Mode: MIDI Programming: Let's explore what the edit Mode is. So you can switch by clicking. And first you will see that, that these are turned green in color. Now you can program every key in these and die keyboard to how this work. Is your program a key? In this case, just want to program this key, which is C. And when I hit the sea, you'll also program it to play low octave of C major. So you can click which you want to program. And after that, all you have to do is just click this button. And when you go to the play mode and hit that key, you play that card. So you can program multiple keys which aren't colored by green. So you can click this key, and of course you can move. You can also move the entire layout, the left or right, depending upon your ease of playing. In midi keyboard or a normal mechanical keyboard, you can also assign this to the white key or a black key. In this case, if I want to make everything in white app to hit this button and everything set in a place where key is then white. So this has nothing to do with the programming of the Chords. So if I want to make this diode to only play when I hit the black keys. All you had to do is just go here and just click this button. So the entire layout is turn into black keys. So when I play a black key, it only plays and it doesn't play when I hit Hawaii. The white cane, it only plays at plane note. So you can change or you can modify the preset if you want. Or you can go here and create a new preset. You can name the preset. Let's say I just want to create an R&B card. So I'll just go here and create and name this preset RMB. And I just wanted to create a C major. All I do is just go to here by inputting the key, input and output. So I'll input C to output C major chord. I know this is a C Major nine, so I'll name this Chord as well to C major nine. Said, I will know that I'm playing a C Major nine. You can't play over here because this is in edit mode. We have to switch back to the play Mode to play. So when I hit this key, it plays a C Major nine. So you can create different kinds of cards. We can program the Chords. And also you can create an OH, preset. Now let's see what else is available in the Settings section. So in this section, you'll find whether to switch and the dark or light one. I particularly liked the light More much because it gives me more details. You can also reset the size. This is a start a new preset which we already discussed. This is a duplicate current preset. So here you can duplicate a current preset. Here you can import a midi file. All you had to do is just click on that and important midi file if you have, and the Chords which are in the midi will be layout. Or here. You can export the current midi to wherever you want. And you can import a preset file. You can export preset file. You can import MP3 file as well. So this is about rip cord. And in the next class, I'll share the sum of the secrets and some of the tricks to get the most out, out of the rib card. 8. A Short Quick Tip: So here in every preset, multiple cards programmed into a single piano layout. So you find various courts play different keys to play two or more cuts. This makes us easier to create multiple harmonic caught Progressions 9. Tips & Tricks: Now let's talk about the depths and Tricks. So the first thing is when you are performing for a live show, you how to play the keyboard. You just go here and start a new preset. And pretty much Program your own. Let's say if I want to program a key with a Chord of the song that you don't know how to play by the apoptosis program. That's it. So you can just go along with the song displaying two keys. Or if you want to give more human fear, guess go with the options. You can play that the entire sun. That's the trick number one, you can display, even if you don't know how to play keyboard. In order to do that, you have to be conscious about which song is playing and the College of the song. So that's the trick number one. So another one is, so you can find the favorites over here in the present manner. As I already told you that you can also favorite your presets. You can go and collect a favorites, but no here to find all the favorites that you had. And it doesn't stop there actually. You can also create a tag. Let's say I just wanted to create tag call major. Create a tag. And with this tag, you can assign multiple major presets, measure called presets to the single deck. So how can I do that? To make it more easier? I'll only select the Magic please because we have named attacked major. So in order to do that, all you have to do is just go to this thick button, click and click on major tag. Now, select only the major. Are the DAG, which you want to select and put it onto a separate die. So when I click on major, all I see is only a major keys. So you can create a multiple tags also. And it makes us much easier to find the Chords that we're looking for. So these are the two tips and tricks that I have. I hope it helps. I'll meet you in the next less until then. Goodbye