So now that you know the pitch of your 808, go back to the ‘miscellaneous functions’ of your sample and change the root note of the sample by right click on the piano roll. This will give you the pitch of your 808: We can use Edison to detect the current pitch of our 808 sample by clicking on the flag icon and then on detect pitch regions. Right click on the wavform and select edit. Tuning your 808sĬlick on your 808 channel in your channel rack to open up the following window: Tip: You can also (as seen in the picture above) right click on a channel in the channel rack and then click on ‘cut itself’. This will do literally do what it says it will cut itself when e.g. When it comes to 808s you often don’t want to have two different pitched 808’s playing at the same time.īy going to the ‘miscellaneous functions’ tab (see green arrow), you can click on the ‘cut self’ button. Note that the envelope also has 0 attack, which is often what you want when triggering an 808 sample. Before changing the pitchīefore actually changing the pitch of the 808, I’d like to change the envelope of the 808 so that we can adjust the sustain of the 808 by changing the length of our midi notes.Ĭhanging the envelope to the picture above will result in an 808 that will only sustain as long as the length of your midi notes. Let’s take a look at how we can quickly fix this using stock FL studio plugins. When using 808’s from samplepacks you’ll often find that they’re a bit out of tune.

How to tune 808 fl studio