In this lesson you’ll learn how to make a melody in FL Studio. This melody tutorial shows good tips for beginners, but also for more experienced producers. It’s very useful for any musical genre, so it applies to any form of EDM.
Knowing how to make a melody is definitely an essential part of making music. That’s why it’s important to pay close attention to this lesson and gain smart strategies to boost your melody creation.
'How To Use Fruity Loops - Tutorial '. Using Fruity Loops. The Step Sequencer. In order to understand this tutorial, you will need to know the basics of operating FL. When you start up FL studio you should be greeted with a screen with a bunch'a blocks on it.
This lesson is simply part of the basics and goes together with my How to Make Chords in FL Studio lesson. They belong together and are both equally important. So please, make sure to check it out as well.
How to make a melody
In the video I am showing you a good method how to make a melody. This method is especially useful when you don’t have a lot of musical talent. To create good melodies, we simply use some rules that help as guidance.
Rule 1 to make a melody
Make sure you’ve enabled the “Scale highlighting” helper on the piano roll (set it to “Automatic”). When it’s enabled, FL Studio will tell you which musical scale it thinks you’re using.
In the video example, I’m using the F minor scale. A scale basically tells you which notes you CAN use and which notes you CANNOT use.
Rule 2 to make a melody
Simply pick a musical scale and stick to it. You can ONLY use the notes on this scale. I’ve chosen the F minor scale in the video.
Rule 3 to make a melody
Make a musical loop with the lower layer of the melody (the carriers). This has to be an F minor loop. So, it’s easiest just to start with an F note.
Always check the piano roll helper if your lower notes play an F minor loop. If it doesn’t say “F minor”, change it until it does.
Rule 4 to make a melody
Make a musical loop with the upper layer (top layer) that creates the real melody.
- Make sure your first note is a chord of the lower note. In the video example, G# is a chord of F in the minor scale.
- The total upper melody needs to be an F minor loop as well. Only select the upper layer to see if FL Studio says it’s played as F minor.
TIP: The lower notes we created earlier, can play the same rhythm as the upper melody. This makes it sound as a unity. The note helper generally should say “F minor” as well.
Rule 5 to make a melody
This rule is just optional. Copy the lower layer, paste it and move it down 1 octave. This makes the melody sound heavier.
NOTE: For a beginner this is more than enough to get you started. Skip rule 6 until you get the hang of these first 5 steps.
Rule 6 to make a melody
For the more advanced, make a musical loop with the middle layer. These are also always part of the chords the scale (F minor) dictates. See which notes within the chords are still “free” to use and build from there.
In the video example, the very first notes now are F (lower) and G# (upper). The note C is still available within that chord. Use that note and build from there.
Final melody making tip
Always try to use your ears and make sure it sounds good to you. This takes some practice. That’s why I tried to create these rules to help you guide. But these are NOT hard rules. These are just strategies.
Let me know if this helps!
And before you go, I want to stress again that it’s important to learn the How to Make Chords in FL Studio lesson. It goes together with this lesson. So please, check it out. You may also want to check out the Hardstyle Piano Melody lesson, where we’ll take a look at the melody making strategy in action.
Plugins
For this lesson, the following FL Studio stock plugins were used:
- 3x Osc
- Fruity Reeverb 2
- Fruity Parametric EQ 2
- Fruity Waveshaper
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Fruity lsd.dll Explanationlink
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How To Use Fruity Lsd 2
- Methods for Fixing Fruity lsd.dll
- Method 5: Getting Rid of Fruity lsd.dll Errors by Updating the Windows Operating System
Operating Systems Compatible with the Fruity lsd.dll Librarylink
How to Download Fruity lsd.dlllink
- First, click on the green-colored 'Download' button in the top left section of this page (The button that is marked in the picture).
- The downloading page will open after clicking the Download button. After the page opens, in order to download the Fruity lsd.dll library the best server will be found and the download process will begin within a few seconds. In the meantime, you shouldn't close the page.
Methods for Fixing Fruity lsd.dlllink
ATTENTION! Before starting the installation, the Fruity lsd.dll library needs to be downloaded. If you have not downloaded it, download the library before continuing with the installation steps. If you don't know how to download it, you can immediately browse the dll download guide above.
Method 1: Copying the Fruity lsd.dll Library to the Windows System Directorylink
- The file you will download is a compressed file with the '.zip' extension. You cannot directly install the '.zip' file. Because of this, first, double-click this file and open the file. You will see the library named 'Fruity lsd.dll' in the window that opens. Drag this library to the desktop with the left mouse button. This is the library you need.
- Copy the 'Fruity lsd.dll' library file you extracted.
- Paste the dynamic link library you copied into the 'C:WindowsSystem32' directory.
- If your operating system has a 64 Bit architecture, copy the 'Fruity lsd.dll' library and paste it also into the 'C:WindowssysWOW64' directory.
NOTE! On 64 Bit systems, the dynamic link library must be in both the 'sysWOW64' directory as well as the 'System32' directory. In other words, you must copy the 'Fruity lsd.dll' library into both directories.
- First, we must run the Windows Command Promptas an administrator.
NOTE! We ran the Command Prompt on Windows 10. If you are using Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP, you can use the same methods to run the Command Prompt as an administrator.
- Open the Start Menu and type in 'cmd', but don't press Enter. Doing this, you will have run a search of your computer through the Start Menu. In other words, typing in 'cmd' we did a search for the Command Prompt.
- When you see the 'Command Prompt' option among the search results, push the 'CTRL' + 'SHIFT' + 'ENTER ' keys on your keyboard.
- A verification window will pop up asking, 'Do you want to run the Command Prompt as with administrative permission?' Approve this action by saying, 'Yes'.
- Let's copy the command below and paste it in the Command Line that comes up, then let's press Enter. This command deletes the Fruity lsd.dll library's problematic registry in the Windows Registry Editor(The library that we copied to the System32 directory does not perform any action with the library, it just deletes the registry in the Windows Registry Editor. The library that we pasted into the System32 directory will not be damaged).
%windir%System32regsvr32.exe /u Fruity lsd.dll
- If you are using a Windows version that has 64 Bit architecture, after running the above command, you need to run the command below. With this command, we will clean the problematic Fruity lsd.dll registry for 64 Bit(The cleaning process only involves the registries in Regedit. In other words, the dynamic link library you pasted into the SysWoW64 will not be damaged).
%windir%SysWoW64regsvr32.exe /u Fruity lsd.dll
- In order to cleanly recreate the dll library's registry that we deleted, copy the command below and paste it into the Command Line and hit Enter.
%windir%System32regsvr32.exe /i Fruity lsd.dll
- If you are using a Windows with 64 Bit architecture, after running the previous command, you need to run the command below. By running this command, we will have created a clean registry for the Fruity lsd.dll library (We deleted the damaged registry with the previous command).
%windir%SysWoW64regsvr32.exe /i Fruity lsd.dll
- You may see certain error messages when running the commands from the command line. These errors will not prevent the installation of the Fruity lsd.dll library. In other words, the installation will finish, but it may give some errors because of certain incompatibilities. After restarting your computer, to see if the installation was successful or not, try running the program that was giving the dll error again. If you continue to get the errors when running the program after the installation, you can try the 2nd Method as an alternative.
Method 2: Copying The Fruity lsd.dll Library Into The Program Installation Directorylink
- First, you must find the installation directory of the program (the program giving the dll error) you are going to install the dynamic link library to. In order to find this directory, 'Right-Click > Properties' on the program's shortcut.
- Open the program installation directory by clicking the Open File Location button in the 'Properties' window that comes up.
- Copy the Fruity lsd.dll library.
- Paste the dynamic link library you copied into the program's installation directory that we just opened.
- When the dynamic link library is moved to the program installation directory, it means that the process is completed. Check to see if the issue was fixed by running the program giving the error message again. If you are still receiving the error message, you can complete the 3rd Method as an alternative.
Method 3: Doing a Clean Reinstall of the Program That Is Giving the Fruity lsd.dll Errorlink
- Open the Run window by pressing the 'Windows' + 'R' keys on your keyboard at the same time. Type in the command below into the Run window and push Enter to run it. This command will open the 'Programs and Features' window.
appwiz.cpl
- The Programs and Features window will open up. Find the program that is giving you the dll error in this window that lists all the programs on your computer and 'Right-Click > Uninstall' on this program.
- Uninstall the program from your computer by following the steps that come up and restart your computer.
- After restarting your computer, reinstall the program that was giving the error.
- You may be able to fix the dll error you are experiencing by using this method. If the error messages are continuing despite all these processes, we may have a issue deriving from Windows. To fix dll errors deriving from Windows, you need to complete the 4th Method and the 5th Method in the list.
Method 4: Fixing the Fruity lsd.dll Error Using the Windows System File Checkerlink
- First, we must run the Windows Command Promptas an administrator.
NOTE! We ran the Command Prompt on Windows 10. If you are using Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP, you can use the same methods to run the Command Prompt as an administrator.
- Open the Start Menu and type in 'cmd', but don't press Enter. Doing this, you will have run a search of your computer through the Start Menu. In other words, typing in 'cmd' we did a search for the Command Prompt.
- When you see the 'Command Prompt' option among the search results, push the 'CTRL' + 'SHIFT' + 'ENTER ' keys on your keyboard.
- A verification window will pop up asking, 'Do you want to run the Command Prompt as with administrative permission?' Approve this action by saying, 'Yes'.
- Paste the command below into the Command Line that opens up and hit the Enter key.
sfc /scannow
- This process can take some time. You can follow its progress from the screen. Wait for it to finish and after it is finished try to run the program that was giving the dll error again.
Method 5: Getting Rid of Fruity lsd.dll Errors by Updating the Windows Operating Systemlink
Some programs need updated dynamic link libraries. When your operating system is not updated, it cannot fulfill this need. In some situations, updating your operating system can solve the dll errors you are experiencing.
In order to check the update status of your operating system and, if available, to install the latest update packs, we need to begin this process manually.
Depending on which Windows version you use, manual update processes are different. Because of this, we have prepared a special article for each Windows version. You can get our articles relating to the manual update of the Windows version you use from the links below.
Guides to Manually Update for All Windows Versionslink
Most Seen Fruity lsd.dll Errorslink
How To Use Fruity Lsd Recipe
It's possible that during the programs' installation or while using them, the Fruity lsd.dll library was damaged or deleted. You can generally see error messages listed below or similar ones in situations like this.
These errors we see are not unsolvable. If you've also received an error message like this, first you must download the Fruity lsd.dll library by clicking the 'Download' button in this page's top section. After downloading the library, you should install the library and complete the solution methods explained a little bit above on this page and mount it in Windows. If you do not have a hardware issue, one of the methods explained in this article will fix your issue.
- 'Fruity lsd.dll not found.' error
- 'The file Fruity lsd.dll is missing.' error
- 'Fruity lsd.dll access violation.' error
- 'Cannot register Fruity lsd.dll.' error
- 'Cannot find Fruity lsd.dll.' error
- 'This application failed to start because Fruity lsd.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.' error
Dynamic Link Libraries Related to Fruity lsd.dlllink
The Fruity lsd.dll Category Directorylink
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- Windows Vista
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