The Intro Thread

[deadly_habit]

instant intro

[DJ Crackle]

use the Fruity Introizer.

Agreed. That's the reason I use FL studios at all at this point.

[Luke Baewer]

become inspired by other artists intros...but do not try and copy them. just experiment and find what feels right...sorry if this doesnt help much, best of luck to you!

[JemGrover]

[Piano sample] > Pitch down > [route to delay and verb channel] > Route [delay and verb] to [modulated filter cut off with a slow rate channel using TAL filter] > route to [more delay more verb MORE MORE MORE etc etc etc]

Fiddle with knobs to get a greater wet:dry single so that the piano (or whatever you choose) is almost non existent, making sure you've rolled off the lows as and when needed in the above steps = lush shoe-gaze/Sigur Ros-esque pad.
Literally, hours of fun to be had with this technique

Edit: not what OP was after, but fuck it.

[paravrais]

Everyone I thnk has misunderstood his question. He was asking how the he'll you get fruityloops to stop just making a 2 bar or whatever it is loop and actually get the sequencer up. It's something I've never figured out either though and the confusing layout of fruity was enough to put me off it after using the trial for about fifteen minutes :s

[mojomusic]

Click PL in the corner, this brings up the playlist.
You need to learn how this is mapped out. it's basically a load of rows of patterns, and each pattern, is one of those loops you know of.
Click on pattern one, then click SS in the corner, this brings up your step-sequencer
then make a melody, or some drums, or whatever you like in the step-sequencer.
then click PL, and put a box anywhere you feel on the same row as 'pattern one'
next, click on pattern two in the PL, then click SS
then make something else, a melody of some sort or a drum pattern, etc.
then click PL, and this time put a box in the same row as 'pattern two'
if you do all that correctly, you'll get a good idea of how it works
have fun

[glottis5]

Take a sample from an awesome movie like "fight club" or "the matricks"

Add a snare roll/backwards ride symbal just before the drop

[RmoniK]

The title says it all. Discuss.

(how do you build em, pads, risers, chords, filter automations,...)

[hasezwei]

brotip: there's lots of threads on this, and they all say the same.

listen to tunes with good intros, see what they do.

[RmoniK]

might aswell say what you tend to do yourself then; at least you'll have something to do on your saturday evening then.

[filthy_]

i prefer the sound of woman and children screaming with a nice ominous c# being played under it.

[jackg]

i like gettin some random speech or sound like a train or church bell or sumtin and adding fuck load of reverb on it, mayb some filters. but mainly to change the entire sound of it, make it your own sound.
it all depends on how phat your gonna make your drop really. an how your groove is gona sound.
you dont want a proper epic intro for a shit beat an no wobble.

[Filthzilla]

I'd say 'Polyrhythms'.

I love interwieving beats etc...

But yeah, this has been covered many a time.

[Nacklewicket]

fuck intros

[Filthzilla]

fuck intros

hard.

[kHoff]

Intros is something I need to work on. Will prolly make mine 16 or 32 from now on since I started DJing, to make it easier to mix with other tunes. Start with a catchy riff and switch it up to transfer into the drop is all I can say.

[Basic A]

Intros is something I need to work on. Will prolly make mine 16 or 32 from now on since I started DJing, to make it easier to mix with other tunes. Start with a catchy riff and switch it up to transfer into the drop is all I can say.

The 16/32 thing for DJs is really lame, I hate mixing those damn brostep 16-32 formula things... no room for long eq'd transitions, no creative phrasing options...

Favorite tune to drop has 2 bars of ambience, then 16 bars of the drums, and 4 bars of vocal sample + build... Some others that come to mind have slow-housey-builds accross a set of 64, ect. ect.

but yeah, the only thing your doing by limiting your stuff to those 16/32 dj formula's is catering to wack DJs...

[hifi]

The title says it all. Discuss.

(how do you build em, pads, risers, chords, filter automations,...)

learn scales, or learn how to play the piano. make sick patches i guess learn synthesis.

[chewie]

All depends on what kind of tune your writing tbh. If it's brostep the intro just seems to be like a bad episode of smallville i.e. just filler.
The intro for me is usually something that immediately provokes an emotion and is somewhere in between mecca and epic.

[hifi]

All depends on what kind of tune your writing tbh. If it's brostep the intro just seems to be like a bad episode of smallville i.e. just filler.
The intro for me is usually something that immediately provokes an emotion and is somewhere in between mecca and epic.

not really the tune in your sig kind of fits that :/ but its good though. most brostep would have like a synthesized piano or some other lead playing in a dark scale that is relevant to the pattern of the bassline or it can sometimes be a random yoi yoi drop that doesn't fit in with the intro at all.

edit: i just listened to the whole clip in your sig. damn that sounds so sick big up