

Once we then bring that up and draw that into the playlist, we can then unselect the Pattern Mode and play this back.

(drum music) We can then press the Stop button, undo the Record button, and you'll see that it's been played into Pattern 1. Remember to hit the Play button in order to start the recording. Simply select this and we'll now record in some basic MIDI. Select the playlist, make sure you've got an empty pattern, hit the Record button, and make sure that what you select is the Everything when it asks you what you'd like to record. So, we're going to lower the tempo down to 100 and have a go at doing this ourselves. Then, once you're done doing this, you can either select and use the drum sequencer and draw in a pattern by hand, or you can record in MIDI using the record button at the top here and record in a drum pattern yourself. You can then change these settings completely to suit your heart's content, or whatever you're most comfortable with. As you can see, you can then change the types of sounds that you're creating, as well as the MIDI keyboard key that that actually links to So for instance, our bass drum is linked to C3, (drum music) the bottom note on our MIDI keyboard, whereas the snare is linked to C4, (drum music) which is the key an octave up from this.

(drum music) As you can see, as I play around on the MIDI keyboard, this then responds in Drumaxx to the MIDI inputs that I'm giving it. So for instance, when I start pressing keys on the MIDI keyboard, this will be reflected in some of the actions that Drumaxx then responds to. What Drumaxx does, is it automatically links itself to your MIDI keyboard, so you can then use your MIDI keyboard to record in MIDI and create a drum pattern without drawing it in automatically by hand. As you can see, we've already added one, so we don't need this new one that we've automatically created. First of all, you want to make sure that you've added Drumaxx to your default FL Studio project by going up to the Channel rack, pressing the Add new channel button, and selecting Drumaxx from the drop-down menu.

One great way of doing this is to use the default plugin Drumaxx that comes bundled with the program by default. There are multiple ways of getting started building basic beats in FL Studio.
