Creating Ghost Notes

[WingsOfAnAngel]

Ghost notes will greatly enhance your Fruity Loops projects. Ghost notes are low volume tones or hits, more felt than heard, that add an extra dimension to a track and are especially useful to give the drums a more human feel. If you have ever heard a beat and couldn’t quite figure out why it sounds so full and layered, chances are that ghost notes are being used.

Fruity Loops makes ghosting notes simple.

Start a new Project and choose a sample. I used a kick drum. Now add two channels of the same sample. Here they are kick and kick #2. Kick # 2 will be the ghost track.

The easiest way to set-up ghost notes is to boost the channel volume the first channel (kick) and drop the volume of the other (kick #2) until it is barely audible. Then create a simple pattern between both channels. Keep adjusting the volume of each until the ghost channel feels like an almost silent pulsating echo or pre-echo.

There you go, a Fruity Loops ghost channel. Now experiment with the placement of the ghost notes; I’ve found the best places are the two beats before or after a hit from the sound being ghosted. Any sample in your project can be ghosted this way. Snare drums, hi-hats, and even piano keys work well with ghost notes.

 

[Relic]

Really excellent advice..
I have kits that have these type notes in them..A real low frequency peice of a sample, and some other snares and stuff.
I was wondering who would make such a sound and call it a sample worth using but now it makes perfect sense..
I had been stickin em in some sonds and it does make the track breathe so to speak.

 

[bigdmakintrax]

I mentioned this ages ago but in another context I think, very good advice, its been around for a minute though are you actually finding old posts and researching then finding or rewriting articles??? but actually the context of a ghost note as used when mentioned and most people in kow that use the term is to sometimes have a note(midi) that is on the track, the volume is all the way to 0 on that note.....this is done so that the previous pattern's sample will cut off and not bleed over so the use is to cut off the decay if you don't have group assignments it's really and old trick of sorts, like how you would use the sample or pattern groups to cut one off in the same group....

 

[Relic]

^ True that, I use to do that on the sp1200, if a sample bled over I just would assign a note that was turned down on the first note of the firt bar of the next pattern, you can get some interest results fasho!

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

I mentioned this ages ago but in another context I think, very good advice, its been around for a minute though are you actually finding old posts and researching then finding or rewriting articles???

The credit is all yours D, You get the groupies, don't worry!
I'm not "reposting"\"rewriting"\"researching" and i'm not stealing nobody's credits. I found all these tips+tricks today on a Fruity blog. I can give you the URL if you wish.

And by the way, y'all is welcome to contribute much more than my-humble-self. I do what I do to help each and every member and to ease the life of our beloved community. I don't even use FL, just so you know. In fact, had I been an egoist, I would not have posted 97% of all these threads. I don't use most of the software y'all use, don't use any hardware and I could easily keep the knowledge to myself. But then again, that's not my vision. I help everybody regardless, and you can take the awards and everything for yourself. I don't need all that jazz!

It's all love. May you find your celestial spot in paradise!

Have A Great Life,
Wings

 

[open mind]

I mentioned this ages ago but in another context I think, very good advice, its been around for a minute though are you actually finding old posts and researching then finding or rewriting articles??? but actually the context of a ghost note as used when mentioned and most people in kow that use the term is to sometimes have a note(midi) that is on the track, the volume is all the way to 0 on that note.....this is done so that the previous pattern's sample will cut off and not bleed over so the use is to cut off the decay if you don't have group assignments it's really and old trick of sorts, like how you would use the sample or pattern groups to cut one off in the same group....

even if it was posted b4 theres never enough help u know.
peace.

 

[bigdmakintrax]

No I actually said that your info is a not the same context though, I had to read it, so not unless someone else posted it I just elaborated on the other context...what you wrote actually had never seen it or at least....but yeah open mind that's true too, for a newb or someone passing thru they never gonna go to the threads and search...LOL...excellent articles can be farmed off of here and other places as well, its all good.

 

[Relic]

D can you post a link to the other thread as well?

 

[bigdmakintrax]

Imma look you have to dig man and also a bunch of my threads are long gone too because of forum pruning or whatever, but I will look...

 

[Relic]

https://www.illmuzik.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13479&highlight=Ghost+notes
Got it I think

 

[bigdmakintrax]

yeah that's probably it but it came up a few years back too I think that thread is not really that old but hey it gets the point, Formant gets the credit in that thread, but like I said though searching these forums is like a knowledge base of tips and tricks.

 

[WingsOfAnAngel]

but like I said though searching these forums is like a knowledge base of tips and tricks.

Word up BigD, Amen! You & Formant have certainly contributed a great deal over the years and I personally appreciate it to the fullest extent. The both of you are top-notch PRODUCERS as well :thumb:

BigD, you should be peaceful and spontaneous, the fame will arrive in one form or another. Don't count time if you want to evolve; if you count time you will revolve. Remember - Without fucking we are fucked up!

Peace On Earth,
Wings

 

[Da IllFellaz]

Ive been doin this for years and never new it was actually given a name, huh!? Ghost Notes, huh? Interesting.

 

[KurtisRich]

aint this the same thing as layering kicks, snares and etc.?