

Now when you are creating your beat a lot of times, you have an idea of how your beat should sound. Now notice where the Kick and Snare are placed, typically people would set the snare on the first red spot, but we put them on the gray ones. This is called double time just in case you wanted to know.Īlso, expand the channel rack by left-clicking and dragging out. The reasoning for higher tempo is so we can make better microscope movements that will help to humanize your trap beat production. Now, lets set our Trap Beat temple to 135 BPM. NOTE: Make sure you tune your 808s. If you do not know how to Tune your 808 read this article: How to Tune an 808 samples in 4 Easy Steps Without the correct sound selection, you could lead yourself in the wrong direction. Let us add our 808, and we picked out a nice solid sounding 808 that rumbles.

Sound selection is the first step to creating your beat. Kick and Snare are the first two sounds you generally start with when building your trap beat. When you find your kick you want to Right click on the drum sound and select Open in New Channel. Now that we have our Kick and Snare sound it’s time to add our Hi Hat, as well as our Cymbal sounds. First, you’ll want something that will be very punchy and quick sounding. We’ll start off by finding our Kick sound. This tutorial is going to show you how to get your drums created quickly and also learn some neat tricks in FL Studio 12 as well. A lot of times we get stuck trying to create a Trap Beat when we are first starting out as producers.
