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I often feel like my tunes are lacking. I think that adding vocals or oneshots would help a lot. But I have no clue how to go about doing it. I'm asking, what do you guys usually do to vocal oneshots when adding them to your tune? I'm mainly curious about pitching, when trying to harmonize a oneshot with your song, do you guys actually take the "note" of the oneshot into consideration? And for FL users, what do you use to to change pitch of your one shots.
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If it's hard to understand what I'm asking, a good example would pretty much be any one of Skrillex's songs. He frequently uses oneshots, then changes the pitch of it over the course of the bar/measure

Really good example is his tune - With You, Friends (Long Drive)


I'm not trying to imitate the song or anything, but when I try to add movement to oneshots using FL's piano roll, it also makes the sample play faster, which ruins the consistency.

Its all about sample selection, forget about pitching and all that, start with something that already works, don't try and force something to work

I often use vocal one shots or any sampled vocal. But never BECAUSE I want to use them. I'll just listen to my tune and think of what it could use and if it's a vocal, then yeah.

If there is a vocal you totally wanna use though, jsut take it and build your song around it.

From the post I'd say you're over thinking the whole thing. If you think your tunes are lacking 'something', I don't think a vocal one shot is gonna cure that. They usually just accentuate bits.

Try running through a pitchshifter plugin if you don't want to change the rate.

use them like you would any sample... load it into a slot and mess with it til it sounds good? here's where actually having an ear for music comes into play... lol. if you don't have that then good luck!!

I recently done a tutorial in my electro house Tutorial Tuesday series on Youtube, its not for FL but for Ableton but it might give you some pointers in the right direction.