How to Make Hyperpop Beats in FL Studio

Uh, what's up, friends? My name is Felix and I'm here again with another video for you all today and this video is going to be a little tutorial on hyper pop, so in all my research I found out that there's a bit of a discrepancy between what hyper pop is, so that if you just search for a hyper pop type rhythm on youtube, the first results that appear are like a hyper pop x lil uzi type rhythm and a lot of people think that this is what hyper pop is, but honestly I really don't believe that uzi bass fits into this category, that style of beat is more like a little uzi type beat or maybe you can consider it as a futuristic trap or something, I don't know, but the point is that it really isn't. hyper pop, but what I think is actually hyper pop and the kind of beat that I'm going to show you how to do today is more like 100 gex, I think that's how they say it, I don't really hear it. them, but if you go to wikipedia and just search hyper pop 100x is like one of the first artists they mention and they're also on the hyper pop Spotify playlist or whatever, but basically when it comes to hyper pop it's it's like a mix of edm and trap and other elements of the genre you know and stuff too so yeah this is probably the closest you're going to get to an edm tutorial so enjoy it while you can but yeah

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sure to check it out glance. my instagram and my soundcloud in the description below along with the playoffs of the songs that I have produced my beat storm my discord all that, check it out if you want to and now we can access this video so here We are inside FL Studio and the first thing you probably want to do is increase the tempo to a pretty fast speed, so I'm going to increase mine to 183 because most of these

beats

are pretty fast tempo, so I said I'm going to base this on a hundred gex, but I'm sure there are plenty of other artists and things that do this too and some

hyperpop

beats

cut hundreds of gek songs I've heard.

I use the guitar, but I'm not going to use the guitar today. I want to

make

the melody for this beat sound really robotic and melodic chaotic, exotic, basically I'm going for a soundtrack type vibe like a geometric board, so the first thing I want. What to work on is the melody, so I'm just going to open up the analog lab. You don't have to use the analog lab in any way. Basically you just want to find a really simple saw guide or something, so I'm going to to use this preset here it sounds something like this, this is the sound you want to go for and now what you want to do is basically go in here and draw a bunch of random notes so what you want to do because here with this cable there's something that jumps all over the place and it's like up and down and really crazy and really fast so literally something like this would work and I literally did it in about three seconds, so I changed this.

I went up a little bit and now I have this main melody and now I think what I want to do is just copy it and make a slight variation. I think I'll change a note or two, so now we have our main pattern. At this point, you can also do Alt R to randomize the speeds a little bit and that will give it a bit more of a human feel. You don't really want a lot of human feel with these types of beats, like I said before. Like I want it to be really robotic and sound very similar to what you know, but yeah, now that we have this, what I'm going to do is add a little bell pattern and it's just going to go on top of this and the other things that we're going to do. to add it later, so with this bell pattern I wanted to play less frequently than the main sound and it's also important that it complements the main sound, so what I'm thinking is something like this.

I like that super basic pattern and just repeating it because this part won't play for the entire song. The idea I have in my head for this beat is that I want there to be a section where it's like this. club type drums and then it will go straight into the typical trap drums that you would hear in these types of beats, so it would probably be played during the section where the lead drums are okay, so I came up with this little pattern right here. It's basically just a variation of what I was showing you and it sounds like this, so you can listen to it, it just moves along that main sound and also complements it quite well because it plays some of the same notes, but what I However , what I'm going to do is press Ctrl and up to go up an octave and now this is going to make it so that it doesn't get too muddy and cluttered with all the other sounds that we're going to add now. that we have this, what I want to do is add some kind of 8-bit sound that follows these notes here and this will be to incorporate some more chiptune, I guess it's the genre aspects of hyper pop.

So I'm going to find a sound that I can use for that real quick, so I found the perfect sound for this. It sounds like this and I'm just going to follow the bass notes with this little thread or whatever. Okay, so what we're going through now sounds like this, so basically now what I want to do is work on the drums. In fact, I have a couple more melody-type things that I want to add later because they remind you of how I was saying I wanted to. To add those club type drums, we're going to do that and add those sounds after we finish the typical trap section, so like with any beat, the drums are going to be very important for this one, the drums that you want. to use are going to be a kind of mix between edm and typical trap drums.

I also know I say edm a lot. EDM is a fairly broad genre. I don't think I listen to any type of edm type music so that's why I just say edm, it's just a general statement but yeah those are the type of drums you want to look for. I'm going to pick out some batteries real quick and then I'll be back, aside from the usual. 808 hi-hat bass drum snare you also want to capture some really super weird sounds, completely random sounds. The ones I took are these three and you can add a lot more if you want, but basically you're going to spread them all over the beat and it's going to give it a very grungy and gritty feel, but the drums I've selected are these ones here and as you can hear, 808 is pretty crazy, which is what you're going for with this, so yeah.

Basically with the drums we're going to put the snare in a pretty basic and standard place and now we're going to put the kick and I'm just going to do a very basic snare pattern like this and then we're going to increase our speeds all the way up, but before we do this, make sure you have a smooth clipper on your master track, basically, go to your master track, click on the smooth clipper and then you won't have to do anything after that. the soft clipper keeps all your sounds from going above zero db, but it makes them hit a lot louder, so that's what we want to do, so yeah, we're just going to increase the speeds to the maximum, now that we have the kick, we can go to the hi-hats and just do two steps in the village and if you want to leave it at that, you're more than welcome, but however, a lot of times these rhythms will have rolls and stuff, so I'm just going to do a couple of simple little rolls like this and you can do any kind of other variations you want.

You can make them lower pitched if you want. You can make them higher pitched if you want. It's totally up to you how. Do it. I've heard certain songs where the high hats have a more stuttery feel to them, so maybe you can do something like this and literally all I did here was just remove certain notes from the original two-step pattern however you can. Look, but for this beat today I'm just going to keep the simple two-step pattern with a couple of little rolls and things here and there, so essentially the hi-hat pattern will look like this: I just added a couple of lower notes. here at the end and then we have pretty basic rolls and stuff, so now that we have this, the last really important drum material is going to be the 808, so with the 808 I'm going to tune this one because I know it's going to work. to be out of tune right click edit an audio editor regions detect pitch regions and the note that the sample plays is d so we're going to come in here and right click on d and what I'm also going to do It's A little trick that I normally use and that is to go to the envelope and then lower this up this down this up and this down and basically it's going to be like a little table and this basically gets to where you have full control over the 808 so when the note and the piano rule stops, the 808 sample will also stop playing, so you can do some interesting stuttering effects with this and that's what we're going to do here, so I'm just going to start by copying the exact pattern from the kick drum, but except with the bass notes that you can see here and now, what we're going to do is give this 808 pattern a little bit more flavor, so I'm just going to drag this 808 note right where the snare sounds and this 808 sample is pretty short, but this is just going to make sure that it stops right when the snare hits and it gives it a really cool sound, as you can hear, it gives it a little pause right before the next 808 comes in and I think it sounds pretty cool and I'm going to do that literally with every 808 that's right before a snare, but another thing I want to do is add something like a Note 808 bounce here and it gives it a little bit better bounce and rhythm and all that and also what you could do is turn it up a octave to make it sound like that, but that's totally up to you and how you want it to sound.

Now, at this point, we're almost done with this rhythm section, as you can see here. The last thing we need to do is put in all these weird percussion sounds and this is totally up to you how you want to do it. I would say don't overload it with these kinds of sounds because our melody is already super chaotic and crowded and stuff, so we want to keep it a little simpler and have these weird percussive sounds to accentuate the rhythm a little bit. So you can see here, I didn't really go too crazy with these sounds, I just added them as needed and now all the drums sound like this together, so now let's get to work because we have this section finished.

In another section that I was talking about I want it to be like it's kind of a thing, so I'm going to take all of this out and put it in its own pattern right here and I'm actually going to split it by channel in this so that we have each and every one of the individual sounds and then we'll add a new pattern here like this so we can work on it, so it'll be super easy to do, all you have to do is just put your kicks like this and then you just turn up all the speeds of this way and it'll sound like a bunch of bombs are going off and then we'll just add the snare right here and also increase the speed all the way up, but we're not going to touch that snare the whole way through, just more towards the end I think, and the last one drum sound that we're going to add to this whole beat is only going to be used for this section and it's that super basic club. sounds like an open hat that you've probably heard a million times sounds something like this this is probably a variation of it it's not exactly the one they always use but this will work fine and with this we're just going to make one of these so now I think I'm going to add two more sounds, the last sound is some kind of bass like a sub bass or something, not an 808 and then I'll also try to find some kind of typical sound. edm gated pad that we can also use so I found these two sounds from a plugin called hybrid the first one sounds like this and then I also have this super basic bass sound and what I'm going to do with both of them. these sounds are super simple, I'm just going to copy this pattern here and now I'm going to go back to this pattern and for this I'm just going to paste it in and then I'm going to upload it one at a time and paste it in as well. in the base section, but however, with the base section I'm just going to copy these ghost notes that you see here, but except use the same base notes, so now that we have this section complete, it sounds like this and of course, I'm also going to have the lead on top of this, but the last thing I want to do is add a little bit of a crazy snare roll, something like this and then I'll probably put the other drums right there, so now.

We've pretty much completed both sections, the only two things I really have left to do is mix and just lay out the beat, so before I mix anything, I'm going to lay out the beat because I have a specific weight. I have in mind that I want it to be the beat, so let's go in here and split by channel for this and then I'll just rename these drums because I don't want it to get confusing when We also have the other drums, so now that this it's clearly identifiable as a different section, we're just going to have this base that we made and then the pad and then all those drums and then I think this little chiptune type sound and then the original lead and this will probably be our first section, except I'm going to move these things and then I'm also going to have a little introduction or something, but anyway from here I'll just have the basics.

I'll play a snare pattern and then maybe I'll play like 32 bars and then I'll change the drums and stuff, so maybe I'll deletethis sound and then maybe for this section here I'll eliminate some of those crazy drum sounds and then I'll just keep doing things like that throughout the beat and then maybe I'll repeat this little pattern here later on, but I'm not totally sure yet, but yeah , the other important thing, the last thing we need to do with this beat is mix and I'm going to keep going like this and control l and this assigns. all on its own track in the mixer and honestly there's not much to include in my mixing process but there are a couple of really important key things that I'm going to show you so the basics are I'm going to put in an EQ. on each of those sounds and then cut out the frequencies that we don't need and then for this account I'm going to really widen all the parts of the melody and then I'm probably just going to add a bunch of reverb and stuff, maybe some choruses here and there, but the most important and most complicated thing I want to show you is how to chain your kick drum so that everything else turns down a lot in volume every time it hits because it's kind of like a very popular edm sound that you'll hear on a lot of tracks like that, so basically what I'm going to do is put all the melody parts next to each other and then we'll hold down control and then click on all the melody parts and then we'll find just an empty mixer track and we'll right click on it and then we'll just route to this track and then the whole melody will play here, but once you have all the things routed to a mixer track, what we're going to do is take the boost, so we'll just click on it and then we'll left click here and then we'll drag this down, so now this is chained to this track, so if Put a limiter here like this, we can go to the compressor tab and now turn the knee all the way up, the ratio up and then the release, we could go down a little bit and then the threshold will adjust as we need. so I'm not an expert in lateral chaining.

If anyone wants to tell me what the difference is between all of these different sidechain things, let me know you can review and listen to each one and how it affects your track differently. Side chain number six. It seems to be giving me the vibe I like the most, so I'm going to lower the release level a little bit and then the threshold, maybe bring it to the top of the sound right here as I can. listening to what we've done is basically make the kick drum sound like it's hitting a lot harder because it just turns down the volume of everything else which is a pretty cool effect so now the only other thing with the mix that's a given if you have any kind of beat making experience it's I'll just level everything out so I'll go through one by one and listen to what the sounds are like so I'll turn this down a little bit and then we'll listen. to this section here, so yeah, that's pretty much the entire mixing process and everything, so yeah, at this point, we're almost done with the whole beat.

I just laid out everything and added a couple different sections in there, obviously everything I told you here today. It's quite subjective, you can add a lot more things if you want. I would definitely say that this genre is quite experimental, it's really just about you playing with it and playing with a lot of different weird things, so yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this. video, this isn't totally my genre but these beats are really fun to make and get your head moving a little so yeah be sure to check out my instagram and my soundcloud in the description below along with the playlists of songs that I produced my beat, storm, my discord, all that, go check it out if you want and I'll see you next time, so make sure you get what I came for.