Left-click to step forward, right-click to step backward through four modes: Off, Normal step, Step without gate, Step merged with next. The “boxes” you can see at the top row is where you add/remove the control points.
Here’s a quick introduction to the functions: When you open it, there’s already a 8 step sequence created as a default, but you can modificate it anyway you wan’t. This is a 32 step sequencer for creating a repetitive sequences for envelopes.
There’s several different ways and plugins for creating a gate effect, but in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to do it with Love Philter (advanced filter plugin) in FL Studio.įirst thing to do is to create a melody – long chords played with a sweeping pad sounds works very well with gate effect, but of course you can use gater with any sound you wan’t.Īnyway, here’s a very simple chord pattern I created for this tutorial. Since the early days of trance music, gate effect has been a trademark of this genre and it’s still going strong in a form or another.