This is a step-by-step tutorial, on making an FL Studio 808 trap/hip-hop drum loop, if you’re a modern music producer looking for a decent tutorial on how to make an FL Studio 808 Trap beat, then this step-by-step FL Studio tutorial will teach you just that.
1. First you will need to download the sounds which you will need for this tutorial, please download the sounds below;
2. Set the tempo of the project to 90 Beats Per Minute
3. Import project files downloaded for this tutorial into FL Studio.
4) Import all your samples into your channel rack as shown below;
5) layout all your kicks as shown below, make sure you have all 3 kick samples imported
- “JJ – 808 (4)”
- “JJ – Kick2” & “
- “JJ – TrapKick6”
6) Now let’s add the snares as shown below, you should have 2 snares named;
- “JJ – Snare7”
- “JJ – Snare23”
Once the layout of the snares as shown above you should have a snare sound within tempo.
7) Now fill in all the “beats/bars” inside of the Hi Hat as shown below. This is using the sample “JJ – HiHat 12”
8) Now right-click on the “JJ – Hi-Hat 12” and click on “Piano Roll” as shown below.
9) Now Select “1, Snap to grid” and then click on “2, select 1/2 step”.
This will change the snapping of your input to snap to 1/4 step, it will give us more room to layout more hi-hat and create that trap 808 hi-hat feel!
10) Now with a lot of playing around we have structured a quite common hi-hat layout used by many music producers in the trap / 808 hip-hop beat industry. Please input all data with the draw tool as shown below.
11) Now change the velocity of the hi-hats to sound more natural. As you can see the build-up to a rolling start with a lower volume and builds up.
12) Right-click on “pattern 1” and select “clone” This will now clone the whole “pattern 1” and create a “pattern 2 with the same inputs as “Pattern 1”.
This will give us the same inputs on all sounds which means we can alter the drums on pattern 2 to sound different.
13) Now on pattern 2 input a few more kicks as shown below.
14) Now click on the playlist near the top middle of the screen highlighted in white and input pattern 1 and pattern 2 into the playlist as shown below.
Create a 4-bar hip hop/trap 808 drum loop.
And that’s it you should be able to see and have a quick FL Studio Drum Pattern Loop. Which changes every 16 steps from pattern 1 to pattern 2.
Simple that you have 2 different drum patterns playing at the same time within a playlist creating a differential beat which does not sound repetitive or mirrored.
