How To Create A Lead In Fl Studio 12 (Harmless) 2017
Fl Studio 12: The Easiest Way to Create A Lead Sound In Fl Studio
In this tutorial, I will be showing you one of the easiest ways you can create a lead sound in Fl Studio.
A lead sound mostly have a saw in its waveform, to build a lead sound then you should try using a saw oscillator, thou, we have different kind of saw shapes i.e Tri saw, double saw and more.
I will be using Fl Studio Native for this tutorial which is "Harmless"
Firstly, open Fl Studio and load an instance of ''Harmless'', if done correctly, you should be up and running with that.
The next step is to initialize the preset to the default, click on the drop-down menu for plugin options, scroll across to Presets, and then go up to Default.
Now we need to start changing some of the oscillator, knobs and more.
The first thing I do with any subtractive synthesizer is to change the oscillator, I am creating a lead sound, I will be using the saw waveform.
Let's start with the upper section to make the workflow easier.
Change the Timbre to Double Saw, goto to the pluck and change it to about 1 o'clock, click on the mask beside the pluck, depending on what you want, you can use Release also.
We still need to change some other knobs in the upper section to give a fancy sound.
Change the release knob to up to 10 o'clock, change the decay to up to 5 o'clock and finally bring the attack knob up a little bit.
Note: Attack, Decay, Release is abbreviated att, dec and rel.
The last thing we need to do in the upper section is changing the mix knob for even brighter lead and the sub for giving life to the lead.
Bring up the sub as I have done and then bring the mix up to 5 o'clock.
Let's change knobs in our filter section, changing filter will subtract some frequencies and it will make the lead even cooler.
Bring the decay up to 12 o'clock and then change the amount to 3 o'clock
The next step is to change the freq knob to just 1 0'clock
Move down to the other section and bring the Phaser amt a little bit.
Finally, let's add some effect to the lead sound.
Change the reverb to classic, you would notice a wider lead, change the reverb vol to 9 o'clock.
Change the delay to ping-pong, change the vol to 7 o'clock.
The last thing is to change the chorus to classic, change the chorus mix to 9 o'clock and you should be up with a fantastic lead sound.
The overall sound:
Happy lead designing!
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