Piano roll

[sacred kayak]

i have recently gotten into using fl studio and i'm having a problem with the piano roll it is going way faster than it should and i haven't been able to find a solution

[coarse socket]

i have never heard of this problem before. could you provide a video showing your problem

[sacred kayak]

yes i could i have my bpm set to 140 as the tutorial i am watching said

its acting like its at a higher bpm than it is

[coarse socket]

i think you are simply putting the notes too close together

[sacred kayak]

i have tried spacing them out

[coarse socket]

how spaced out did you do

perhap you could try just a few notes and see what fits

[sacred kayak]

i can try

[coarse socket]

so do you hear the difference before and after spacing them out

[sacred kayak]

there was no diffrence

it just sounds and looks like its going really fast

[coarse socket]

are you using a long hihat loop

or some sort of loop

[sacred kayak]

im new to this idk what that means

ive just been following a tutorial

[coarse socket]

in the channel rack, click the hihat sound and show me the audio waveform

[sacred kayak]

is the hihit the red thing on the bottom

[coarse socket]

yes

it's red for me but it's simply a customization

dont worry about the color

[sacred kayak]

is it this?

[coarse socket]

so it seems normal

[sacred kayak]

heres the one for the other sound im using

[coarse socket]

ok, could you make the notes really spaced out and far away. i just want to make sure

[sacred kayak]

ok i just tried that and i think i know whats wrong but not how to fix it

instead of that line thing moving smoothly its moving on a big grid

do you have any idea on how to fix that

the grid is this

[coarse socket]

press F11 > Audio, at Playback tracking, try the other 2 except the one that were originally selected

[sacred kayak]

its moving smoothly now but its still going fast

[coarse socket]

have you tried zooming out in the piano roll, just ctrl + scroll the scroll wheel. maybe you are really zoomed in the whole time

[sacred kayak]

yes i have

[coarse socket]

weird

i think we can go in the vc to figure this out. just wait a moment for me

[sacred kayak]

im using the free version btw idk if that means anything

[sacred kayak]

i don't have a mic at the moment

[coarse socket]

i dont as well but we can simply type still in this right here

[sacred kayak]

alright

[coarse socket]

it should be fine

[sacred kayak]

ok

[coarse socket]

https://discord.com/channels/955342751669551165/1394803655907217428

share your screen so i could see

[sacred kayak]

what do you want me to show you?

[coarse socket]

just play the track, i want to hear how it sounds like

[sacred kayak]

ok its gonna sound but cause i have edited it try to fix it

it sounds like its going way to fast

[coarse socket]

you only spaced out the first part

the rest is still fast

[sacred kayak]

ik i spaced out the first part

to test it

[coarse socket]

i think you mean it's not going on beat like how you want it

[sacred kayak]

to me it just sounds fast

ive been following a tutorial and i did it exactly as he did but it came out completely diffrent

[coarse socket]

how about you try what i did, just 4 notes, see if it's slow enough for you

[sacred kayak]

different

its not playing sound now

[coarse socket]

you turned on the slide note feature by accident. turn it off by clicking the triangle on the top left here

@sacred kayak

[sacred kayak]

what does that do?

[coarse socket]

place the notes back with the triangle off

[sacred kayak]

ok

[coarse socket]

you dont have to worry about it for now. just figure out a solution to your problem first

[sacred kayak]

can i swear on t his server?

[coarse socket]

yes, but the bot automatically remove and replace the swear word with a

[sacred kayak]

ah

[coarse socket]

so just dont swear i guess

[sacred kayak]

cause i guess i messed up my piano roll somehow cause now they are all in squares

[coarse socket]

huh

[sacred kayak]

watch

see

[coarse socket]

because you are zoomed out

[sacred kayak]

ahhh

it still sounds fast tho

see

[coarse socket]

how about you place even less notes

idk if im hallucinating

[sacred kayak]

i just did what the guy on the tutorial did

his came out perfect

[coarse socket]

try dragging this midi file onto your piano roll

[sacred kayak]

kinda sketch

[coarse socket]

💀

fine

ok place the notes spaced out

i will be here to guide you through

[sacred kayak]

should i delete all them first?

[coarse socket]

sure, you can undo this later

mhm so it's slow now

[sacred kayak]

alright

thanks

i just got one more question

[coarse socket]

what is it

[sacred kayak]

if i can't make it like that cause it will make it go really fast how can i make it how i was going for

if you want i can show you the tutorial which is what i was going for

[coarse socket]

i dont know what this sentence mean, but sure show me the video

[sacred kayak]

i mean if i put them all together like i just did and it made it go fast is there a way to make what i was trying to do without doing that?

like that

[coarse socket]

im still trying to understand 💀

i think i sort of know what you mean

[sacred kayak]

uh ok so i mean the way i did it before is there a way to do it again without it becoming really fast again

cause spacing them out will leave a pause and i don't want that

[coarse socket]

hmmmmmmm

🤔

[sacred kayak]

cause if there is a pause its gonna sound bad with what i have

[coarse socket]

maybe you could send the video and i help you place the notes exactly like they did

[sacred kayak]

alright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8hCQESLPeI

do you want me to show the what im using

[coarse socket]

i think it's fine

[sacred kayak]

alright

[coarse socket]

ok so all you have to do is from the number 1 to 2 at the top, place 8 notes all equal length

you should use shift + click to make the note fully fit @sacred kayak

[sacred kayak]

ok

[coarse socket]

@sacred kayak you dont seem to have the snapping feature on

[sacred kayak]

i didn't known which one to use

[coarse socket]

on the top left of the piano roll, click the magnet so it turns slightly light green

choose Line

i keep mixing up between stuff 😔

[sacred kayak]

like that?

[coarse socket]

yes but make each note half the length

[sacred kayak]

ok

[coarse socket]

currently you only have 4 notes

[sacred kayak]

like that

[coarse socket]

yes

[sacred kayak]

is there a way to make it just slightly faster

you can probally see what im going for in the start

bbut since its slow now it wont really work

[coarse socket]

well, if you make the notes closer, you will be off beat. you can make it twice as fast by making each note shorter by half, or increase the bpm

[sacred kayak]

its at 150 rn

i have it lower than im supposed to

its suppose to be at 155

[coarse socket]

so you now have it at 155 bpm

[sacred kayak]

it wont let me make them any shorter

[sacred kayak]

yes

[coarse socket]

in the magnet, choose 1/2 step

now zoom in, and you should see more lines

@sacred kayak

[sacred kayak]

yea it seems to work

btw say i wanna make my notes bigger can i do that

[coarse socket]

you mean big in this way?

@sacred kayak

you turned on the musical note thing

ok you turned it off

[sacred kayak]

ik i turned it off

[sacred kayak]

yes

[sacred kayak]

?

[coarse socket]

use scroll wheel on the little square in the corner

to reset to default size, alt + click the square

[sacred kayak]

i did alt and lmb but it didn't work

[sacred kayak]

i want them to be like this but a bit shorter i guess

[coarse socket]

the visual length of each note depends on your horizontal zoom, or the length of the note itself

[sacred kayak]

oh

btw how do i make them closer so there is barely a pause

cause it just overlaps them

[coarse socket]

you mean the gaps visually?

[sacred kayak]

there are gaps in between meaning tthere are pauses

[coarse socket]

you mean the sound dont last the whole note?

[sacred kayak]

yea

i will show you

these gaps

nvm i figured it out

[coarse socket]

that require a longer sounding hihat so the sound itself need to sound longer

but that would make the hihat less of a hihat

[sacred kayak]

i zoomed in

[sacred kayak]

wdym

i guess you can't really notice the pause

[coarse socket]

you should put notes at the start of each line

[sacred kayak]

ah ok

so make them longer to make them start at each line

well than there is a pause when the sound stops if its lounger

longer

is how i have it good?

[coarse socket]

huh

you mean the pause when it goes back to the start?

[sacred kayak]

i mean is how i have the notes close enough to that

[coarse socket]

press alt + L

[sacred kayak]

what is that

[coarse socket]

it simply make the notes go long enough until there is another note

[sacred kayak]

how do i use it?

[coarse socket]

normally just hit accept after doing alt + L

[sacred kayak]

ok

[coarse socket]

you can always undo this (unless you quit fl studio and other stuff)

[sacred kayak]

it still is like that

[coarse socket]

huh

[sacred kayak]

even if i do that it still stops since it is a short note

[coarse socket]

you mean the length of the note does not make the sound sounds longer?

[sacred kayak]

yea

its a short note

[coarse socket]

because you need the sound itself to be longer, a hihat only last a little bit

[sacred kayak]

how

if i just keep them short with a small pause will it give me the results i wantr

[coarse socket]

i still dont understand bruh

[sacred kayak]

if i keep the notes shorter and still have that small space will itn give me the result i wanted in the first place

i gotta go ill probally be back tomorrow with another issue tho