Playing a sample in FL Studio's Piano Roll...

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Sup all, there's something I've been trying to figure out if possible in FL Studio since FL6... Is it possible to play a specific part of a song in the Piano Roll when using a sample? Like let's say I ripped a song from vinyl, I can play it only from the beginning, even when dragging the waveform to the piano roll... But I'd like to play a specific part and not just from the beginning. How can you do this? Thanks.
 
you chop the sample to start where you want it to and end where you want it to that is the art of sampling
 
You really don't need the piano roll for this:

Drop the sample on the playlist, and you'll see the waveform of the sample you used there. Now, you select the cut tool (it's located on the top-left part of the playlist, and it's identified by a knife), and then you use it to draw lines on the waveform where you want it to cut.

Keep in mind that this isn't permanent, as if you drag the right border of the waveform, you'll notice that it extends to the rest of the sample you've chopped before.

I hope I helped.
 
Thanks all, but I don't think any of you understood what I was asking (it's hard to explain things through text sometimes.)

What I was asking is, let's say I sent a long vocal sample to the piano roll, and I just wanted to listen to the first part, and let's say, about 2 seconds later of the sample, if you do this, piano roll only allows you to hear the sample from the beginning and nowhere else because it's only reading the sample as a whole and not as wavelength sample.

Sometimes I just want to send the sample into the piano roll because I might only need the beginning part and maybe something a little longer into the sample.

But my solution was (and I've been actually doing this for years, but felt it was a longer process) was to import the sample right into the playlist and chop it there, but if I usually do it that way, I have to always set the loop playback points (right clicking on the top bar of the playlist and dragging the listening points.) That takes not a lot of time at all, but if the piano roll would allow you to use the whole waveform of a sample rather than just the note length, I wouldn't have to do all that.
 
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why don't you just import the sample into edison and highlight the parts you want to use and drag them into the step sequencer individually, send to piano roll and place them wherever you want
 
Major Scale said:
why don't you just import the sample into edison and highlight the parts you want to use and drag them into the step sequencer individually, send to piano roll and place them wherever you want
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EDIT: THANKS MAJOR SCALE! Though you didn't fully answer my question, you did give me an huge idea of what to do, and I found a video on how to do what I asked... You're the best! And thank you all, too! This just opened up a whole new level of mixing in FL for me!

For those that may want to know, I dragged the sample into Edison (opened Edison on a mixer channel; but not the master channel,) I then chose the part of the sample I wanted to use, and I used a tool called the Drag\Copy tool or the one next to it called Send to Channel.
 
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bandcoach said:
you chop the sample to start where you want it to and end where you want it to that is the art of sampling
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As in a previous thread I made, you asked me what the specs were of my computer and hardware, and it was in my post: Blatantly, in the thread title, yet you still asked what they were and came off as if you didn't really care.

Here, you come out sarcastically at the end of your response and were totally incorrect in your reply to my question seemingly on purpose what with the sarcasm. Just questioning if you are trying your best to help, be funny or build your post count.
 
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with 10000+ I am not postcount building

your response here is driven by a personal animus because you were given a private system warning about doing something here at fp by me - this is not the way to respond to such things, however, you have chosen to make it public so I will respond in kind (public that is)

You were asking a basic question faced by samplers every day

There are several solutions to the problem: mine is the simplest in that it gives you control of what plays without having to create multiple slices and remember the start time of each (of course as Major scale points out, you can drag each slice to its own sampler/step sequencer channel and not worry any further, but that solution seemed to be beyond you given the vagueness/opacity of your question)

if you ask an unclear question you will be given the answer that is most appropriate to that question

I would remind you that I am moderator and attacks on mods are not taken with good humour......
 
I will admit, reading the original post was kind of vague to me and bandcoaches reply was the most logical so i omitted replying, it wasn't until your second post where you explained it a little better and I kind of got an idea of what you were trying to achieve. Sometimes you guys just need to be careful in the way you word things and try to be as specific as possible when asking questions so someone can give you a prompt and easy solution.
 
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