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On FL Studio, where can I see how many hz or whatever something is and am I able to edit it?

I'm actually quite new to this, I keep hearing people talking about it and stuff like "Put a 500hz sub under a (whatever the - - - -!)" and I'm having trouble understanding all this - - - -.

I need someone to give me a visualization of it all or give me clear step by step instructions PLEASE!

I'm an FL Studio user, can't exactly afford Ableton or Reason and all that other junk, I just have FL Studio, NI Massive and NI FM8.
I've been doing this for over 6 months and no one has been helping me very much with understanding this stuff, they give me terms I don't understand at all.
So can someone help me with at least THIS problem?

What are htz, hz, ohmz and what the hell is a reese bass or a doctor p formant?
Or better yet what the hell is a formant exactly? From my experience a formant is just a super high pitch noise when I put add it on an osc in Massive!

just read the sticies man...its all there

Hertz (Hz) is a unit of frequency. 1 Hz is the equivalent to a single wavecycle per second. All sounds consist of combinations of frequencies of sine waves.

Besides the point, 500 Hz is way too high for subbass

For your hz situation. Put a parametric eq2. That has a eq spectrum on it.

And put the formant wave on in massive. But turn the intensity knob this time. Formant is like a "voicy, throaty" sound.

Hz, pronounced Hertz, is a unit to measure frequency. Frequency means the pitch. The human ear can hear frequencies from 20hz to 20,000hz (20Khz). What people mean when they say put a 40hz sub under a whatever the fuck is that you should put a sub that's pitch is close to 40hz, in this case that would be a low E. That's just an example. You "edit" the Hz of a sound by using an EQ, or an Equalizer. An Equalizer is one of the, if not the, most important tool of music production. It allows to boost or weaken certain frequencies of a sound.

A Doctor P formant is a sound you don't want.

ChadDub wrote:
A Doctor P formant is a sound you don't want.

It would work well with the 500hz sub.

BYTEME wrote:On FL Studio, where can I see how many hz or whatever something is and am I able to edit it?

I'm actually quite new to this, I keep hearing people talking about it and stuff like "Put a 500hz sub under a (whatever the - - - -!)" and I'm having trouble understanding all this - - - -.

I need someone to give me a visualization of it all or give me clear step by step instructions PLEASE!

I'm an FL Studio user, can't exactly afford Ableton or Reason and all that other junk, I just have FL Studio, NI Massive and NI FM8.
I've been doing this for over 6 months and no one has been helping me very much with understanding this stuff, they give me terms I don't understand at all.
So can someone help me with at least THIS problem?

What are htz, hz, ohmz and what the hell is a reese bass or a doctor p formant?
Or better yet what the hell is a formant exactly? From my experience a formant is just a super high pitch noise when I put add it on an osc in Massive!

Fruity Parametric EQ has a built in spectrum analyser - stick it in an effects chain, start your tune playing and watch - the brighter the colours, the more energy there is at that frequency area. For all the teasing from forum regulars, you were just one zero out - the classic sub bass frequency is 50hz, which is roughly G1 in your piano roll for most synths (I think?), but will depend on your oscillator detune settings and suchlike. Point is, if *something* isn't hitting roundabout 50-70 odd hz, the bass won't bother anyone's bowels in a club setting. 1hz = 1 cycle per second. The absolute lower end of the human hearing range is about 20hz, but the physics of it means that the musically useful stuff range starts at like 40-50hz.

I'm not nearly enough of a geek to pass judgment on how FL's EQ actually sounds as compared with more professional packages, but it is bloody easy to use and the visual feedback makes all those classic mixing chores go by a lot more quickly.

'Editing' frequencies - bit of an ambiguous question. If you play a sound at a different note, obviously, that will change the frequencies (or change the tuning settings in a synth, or the root note in a sampler). If you're happy with all that, you use EQ to trim out the frequencies you don't want (a big distorted lead, for example, will often produce a lot of noise outside the main frequency range of the sound, which you will want to filter out to stop the rest of the track sounding like a big old mess). FL's EQ, again, is pretty easy to work out.

Reese bass - two saw-waves at the same note, detuned very slightly. Popular in dnb, see also literally every progressive house track circa 2002-2004.

Formants are the organic frequency peaks of a sound, especially the human voice. If you sit there and hum the different vowel sounds in your voice, what you're doing sound-wise is changing through a series of resonant frequencies. A formant filter in some synth or another will have, instead of your standard cutoff control, a 'vowel' controller or whatever - it's designed to model the audio filtering capabilities of the humble human gob. As far as the subject at hand goes, it's a fairly common way to put some silly wobbling action in your midrange. I have no experience of using Massive so I don't know what it calls a formant.