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I was wondering if anyone can help. I am basically trying to automate a whole pattern at a certain point in a song in fl studio 8. For example, i have a drum pattern (pattern 1) kick snare and hat, and i want the whole pattern to filter out at a point in the track without the filter effecting any of my other patterns. I know its something simple but ive looked on youtube etc and cant find anything. Can anyone out there help?

Just assign all of the parts of the drum pattern (kick, snare, hat, etc.) to the same fx mixer track in your mixer. Put a filter effect on the fx mixer track you assign them all to and then automate the cutoff or whatever you are looking to automate. It will only affect the tracks/parts/patterns you have assigned to use that fx mixer track (IE: assign all of your drum parts to use fx mixer track 1 and put a filter on it to automate).

You could also just export your drum pattern out as a wave and use it as a clip track then you just have to assign the whole wave to one fx mixer track rather than assigning each individual sound to the same fx mixer track, although you have more control with the individual sounds.

Thanks for your help. But if ime assinging each drum sound to the same fx channel then i am not going to be able to eq and put effects on each drum sound seperatly?

Have your drum,hat,snare on seperate fx channels. Put them all on a send channel. Put filter on send channel.Automate. Filtering pattern 1 .. Done

Ya like my little gordon ramsay style there

wouldn't that just be a send effect not an insert effect like he wants?
haven't messed with fl in ages so might be wrong
in cubase you would send them all to a group channel with pre fader selected and mute all the original channels
that way individual settings/plugs remain yet all sent to same bus for universal processing
surely fl has something similar as i recall

what i would do is make an automation clip and assing whatever knobs that you want to use to that same clip then in your play list use the select function and where you se the bars numbered select the section of the tune that you want to effect and then it will only grab that section

Sammyscribbles wrote:Thanks for your help. But if ime assinging each drum sound to the same fx channel then i am not going to be able to eq and put effects on each drum sound seperatly?

I'll typically EQ and apply all the effects I want and then bounce down to a WAV and reprocess and assign further fx for bits. For your situation, just do what K_K said:

1) Keep all of your sounds on individual fx channels like you have
2) Assign a Fruity Send to each one of those channels and assign the same send channel to each one.
3) Put your filter or effects on the send channel you've assigned all the individual sounds to and automate it.

That way you can still EQ the individual sounds and add individual fx to them if you want.

yo can apply the filter to the interument you want? you know how to do that...

right click on the volume/amount of the filter you want and click create automation clip...then you can chose using the box unter all your standard patterns when and where you want it to automate...

i think thats what you were asking if not that may be of help to someone else, more likely no help to know one as half the time i dont even understand myself haha