3 SIMPLE Tricks That Will CHANGE How You Use Your 808

[@NavieD]

Do you have any secret 808 tips that you wanna share?

[@jameswhite4709]

That knob under pre computed effects beside boost. Turn to the right to add beef for kicks and 808s and to the left to remove it for hats and shit. *edit It's the "eq" knob

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

Waveshaper or Saturn on the 808. Saturn if you have it. No limit to creativity, but the craziest 808s I've seen stick to at most four notes, so don't overcomplicate the bass line itself.

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

DirectWave has a built in tuner in it if you right click the 808 zone. It drops it down a few octaves on the keyboard though.

[@loopskemyh]

T H I C C

[@imadetrujillo9360]

Compress the shit out of it

[@TMG9836]

Direct Wave is one of the most slept on plugins in FL Studio. I forget exactly how to do it, but I remember seeing a video on how to use it to sample VST instruments to save CPU.

[@NavieD]

Yeah it can allow you to replace your plugin and sample every key instead. Really helpful also if you are collabing and the other producer doesn't have a specific plugin

[@jameswhite4709]

You right click on vst and convert to instrument

[@HazyJ28]

Michael from "In The Mix" has a GREAT tutorial on how to do this!

[@ianmckaymusic]

Wow using direct wave is going to be such a game changer. Thank you for this!

[@NavieD]

No prob Ian! It definitely can help you get more control of your 808s

[@ianmckaymusic]

@@NavieD Oh man when you were talking about that square envelope shape I was like 😳

[@rody6635]

fr bro

[@Sandeepkumarmusic3]

Wow very helpful 👌

[@NavieD]

Glad I can help my friend

[@fernandohafez6064]

- There is one thing every single human has done in their lifes, at least once. - Loved somebody? - No. - So what is it? ... *made that mf square on the envelope tab*

[@NavieD]

ollol

[@potential3883]

Bro🤣, that fact that this is true for me

[@scratchgotcrazybeats44]

Every fuckin time hahahha

[@Jg-be7it]

I believe the reason why is exactly the problem Navi was having with the "cut itself" function. When you turn on the envelope, the cut itself won't work. If you make the square envelope, it cuts itself off automatically because there is no tail; the sample only plays for the length of the note. The direct wave plug in seems like a better solution.

[@maine6428]

😅😅I've done it using 808 as bassline

[@slaxxer113]

Very helpful video

[@NavieD]

Thank you Slax

[@svkib]

Bro rlly took 808 slides to the next level with that thumbnail

[@NavieD]

ollolo

[@youneverliedtome]

Man can’t stop making good videos bruh Keep it up. Would love to see a series were you talk to popular producers or rappers or other youtubers

[@NavieD]

Thank you Eyeworks! That would be fun to do a podcast with other artists and stuff

[@afi6061]

Great tip with the direct wave, must admit I don't use it as much as I should. 👍

[@NavieD]

Yeah it took me a while to figure out, but it can be really helpful

[@prod.bongoat3802]

wow. that envelope tip about not making it a square is amazing. I got that technique from a drill producer, where it's common to have the 808 shaped like a synth and I translated that into my trap beats. this makes it way better, thanks

[@NavieD]

Glad I could help Lucas!

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

For the square, I drag out the notes. It's mainly because I don't like the tail at the end of the pattern. Otherwise, leaving it is fine.

[@NavieD]

I hear you. It's definitely a useful thing to do, especially if the beat needs it. But I guess my thinking is that at that point it's no longer an 808

[@VF_Felix]

The last tipp is gold! Thanks!

[@NavieD]

No problem VF!

[@craigdaubbeats-rapinstrume9185]

I used to box my 808s. The purpose isn't so much to cut the tail but just another way to prevent bleeding in some cases. When I used it it was mostly on a case by case basis when needed I'm which case I would drag all the notes out to preserve the amount of tail wanted whole still preventing bleeding. It was basically another way of using cut itself. After awhile I figured out that I could make a really small cutoff note at the end with the velocity all the way down. Which is the way I do it now on my MPC. Only I don't use samples anymore. I build custom 808s out of a sub preset on TubeSynth for every beat now. A tutorial on building custom 808s would be awesome! If you haven't already done so.

[@NavieD]

Yeah I definitely hear you. Boxing your 808s is helpful, but at that point it becomes more of a sub bass than an 808 at that point. Luckily DirectWave gives you control so you get the best of both worlds

[@chocoyox7991]

Your channel is one of the best in this field, man! 🔥 Keep doing this, you are helping a bunch of begginers like me who are truly grateful with you. Shout out from Spain.

[@NavieD]

Thank you my friend! I am happy to be helping

[@dwd16mustang]

love the sliding techniques!

[@NavieD]

Yeah whenever I have a minimal beat that needs some sort of uniqueness to it, I like to use that technique on my 808s

[@usuarioprofessional6132]

Good Bles..Great Video

[@NavieD]

Thank you Usuario!

[@slik_p]

My man Navie

[@Nohvahkane]

Great information bro 🔥🔥

[@NavieD]

Thank you Brandon! 🚒🚒

[@jaketrotter8233]

This is exactly what I needed! I wasn't even hip to direct wave. Thank you sir!

[@runarivars5601]

the sliding bass on 3:37 reminds me of the shield regeneration sound from Halo

[@SpyderBlackOfficial]

Thank You For These Useful Tips!

[@NavieD]

You're welcome Sam!

[@TenaciousDM]

great tips...you have to buy direct wave though, thought it came with FL studio

[@NavieD]

What the, really? I thought it came stock with FL as well. I goofed up

[@tokyokai_wav]

my new favorite fl teacher.. thank you very much😭

[@NavieD]

Thank you Tokyo! I hope you're learning lots

[@weslie6131]

That direct wave trick is definitely worth the sub guys!! Thanks bro !

[@NavieD]

Yeah that took me a while to figure out! You are welcome Wes!

[@paulchikezieomari]

Sweet bro love this

[@NavieD]

Thank you Paulo!

[@paulchikezieomari]

@@NavieD you gave me a lot of ideas watching ur tutorials

[@Mortal14]

You saved my life with direct wave!

[@NavieD]

So this is what it feels like to be a superhero saving lives

[@malibu8365]

Your videos are super helpful and informative bro. Keep up the good work, you’ll gain the recognition u deserve. Also ur face cam is creative

[@NavieD]

Thanks Ben! Yeah I find it annoying for some reason when people have themselves in a small corner, and yet nothing really interesting is happening on screen anyways

[@ReallyUnruly]

9:25 congratulations you created the funk master flex bomb sound effect

[@NavieD]

😮 So that's how it's done

[@auridj6961]

This is exactly what i was looking for! thank you brother! God bless

[@NavieD]

You're welcome Aurid!

[@FEVERDREAM1983]

Hands down the best fl studio tutorials on KZbin. Thanks again for always giving us quality, straightforward, and clear content. Ive been using fl studio for years and never realized just how little I know. The beats on my channel are going to be getting alot better.

[@NavieD]

😘 thank you man. It's always hard knowing whether I am just making yet another random tutorial in the sea of tutorials. I am happy to see comments like this

[@nandhakumard4257]

Now really need a video on side chaining!!🙏

[@tmackATL]

Thanks for the tip.

[@NavieD]

You are welcome Mackdaddy

[@alonzodassinger9371]

Nice 808 tips bro 💯💪🏾😎

[@NavieD]

Thank you Alonzo! Hope you put them to use

[@k3ono345]

Great content ! Helped me a lot

[@NavieD]

Glad I can help my lovely friend

[@imadetrujillo9360]

Fire

[@NavieD]

🔥🔥🔥

[@martinirecords9471]

You are a genius I wish KZbin had a voice comment type ting feature 👌🏾respect

[@NavieD]

Hahah thank you Martini!

[@admjadajmd]

That 808 bend technique is going to be hella helpful for my rolling tech house bass lines

[@AM-dh7nj]

You can use the perfect square envelope and still let the 808 ring out if you make the note long enough ( if there is enough room to let it ring out )

[@NavieD]

For sure, but I guess with my method, you get a tail with every note, no matter how long or short

[@neonvortex5705]

Great video and luv the drum crate as well.. thanks !

[@NavieD]

Glad you're getting some use out of it my friend!

[@scratchgotcrazybeats44]

directwave tip was a great addition, I hope your channel gets a milliom subscribers bro

[@NavieD]

That'll be the day I retire and go live on a farm

[@asiullopes]

I've tried using DirectWave before to sample VSTs but never actually got into it 'cause it looks so confusing to me but this has opened my eyes to trying it again in other ways. you've been really helping me a lot, thank you so much

[@NavieD]

Hmmm maybe I should do a full tutorial on DirectWave, cuz you are right. It's pretty confusing

[@SwiftDreamer]

Not sure when it was updated, but changing the polyphony on a sampler channel works now when you adjust the envelope settings

[@gowthamg2261]

Good To Know About Direct Wave! Nice Tutorial...

[@NavieD]

Thank you Alpha

[@prodwysp]

Another fix for the overlapping 808 problem is to put a super short slide note with 0 velocity at the end of the 808 note. Hope this helps!

[@NavieD]

Thanks Wysp!

[@jamellkennedy5017]

Best 808 tutorial 🔥

[@NavieD]

Ayyyy thank you Jamell!

[@jamellkennedy5017]

@@NavieD u welcome thank u for the help bro

[@user-lt2rw5nr9s]

The thumbnail perfectly shows how this sounds

[@NavieD]

Haha I spent too long on this damn thumbnail

[@rody6635]

Holy shit loving your channel man

[@NavieD]

Hahaha thanks Rody. Glad to have you on board

[@cybeatzproductions]

Great content 👍

[@NavieD]

Thank you Killa Kev

[@RussiBeats]

DirectWave for 808’s is 🔑! I am going to start doing this

[@NavieD]

It can be a great help for sure

[@alexunder_ground]

Navies lessons are the gold nuggets out in the youtube river 👌

[@NavieD]

And your comments are gold nuggets in the comment section. Never change Alex

[@vincentpaula3184]

You just touched on one of my secret tricks in the piano roll on this one and Directwave is under rated. Great video

[@m___motion5976]

This man explains direct wave in literally 2 minutes. Thanks Navie 🙏 808 game changer.

[@GoReallaBeatz]

Navie D you killing me bro.lol i suppose to take this day off from making beats. so i can come back refresh. i watched this and i wanted to get on fl studio and see what that direct wave is about. so i just took this video and put it in my favorites. i will watch tomorrow. you not gonna take my day off showing me all this stuff. lol great share my friend

[@martinezdecap]

I love the 808 tutorials pops! good job! you should switch to ableton and start doing videos on that

[@NavieD]

I like to think my videos apply no matter what DAW you use

[@nilsgoldbeck8698]

Great video! I saw this envelope thing where you turn ´hold´ all the way up at every other youtuber- and I really mean every other one...thanks for this helpful video. What do you think about a whole direct wave tutorial one day? ;)

[@NavieD]

Yessir, I have a lot of video ideas on my docket that I need to do

[@VishYourBeat]

Beat genius.. 🔥 💯 💯

[@NavieD]

🧠🧠

[@lowanbeats437]

Omg, DirectWave would be perfect for some one-shot kits. I should check that out.

[@NavieD]

Yep yep, it's super useful to get better control of your sounds

[@worscohli]

8:37 wow, i was doing that already and i dont even know wht im doing :P cool to see i did something right. sick tutorial. ty i learned so much

[@ChancellorX]

You gave away the sauce

[@NavieD]

🍝 time to eat up the sauce

[@bottleone549]

Here's a tip for 808 tricks use the CROSSFADE along with the Ping Pong Loop inside the FL sampler

[@NavieD]

Ooh I shall try this

[@kellykell3783]

May favorite youtuber 😍😍😍

[@NavieD]

There you are Kelly, I was wondering where you went

[@kellykell3783]

Just got back from Australia! Busy few weeks for me but I’m back!!! Missed ya 😀

[@xDreamWorldx]

Wow Master Navie coming in with gems! Thanks a lot! This has been a issue for me, many times I felt my 808 was drowning lol Keep up the amazing content brother 👌🏼

[@NavieD]

Thank you Dream! Your constant support helps me going!

[@xDreamWorldx]

@@NavieD You deserve it man. Love!

[@katiebarber407]

slide notes are super useful in "dubstep" too

[@scratchgotcrazybeats44]

I only have headphones to monitor so maybe that's the reason but sometimes when I make 808 patterns it sounds great and in key in my headphones but when I listen to it through my phone it sounds off key maybe it's because I can't hear the fundamental notes through my phone speakers because it's too low and I can only hear the odd harmonics(or even) which I guess sounds off without the actual fundamentals. Also, it usually happens when I'm working with clean 808s which doesn't have a lot of saturation or distortion. It's not a problem because I fix it by changing the notes but it's a weird thing because something that sounds in key suddenly sounds off in other devices.

[@alexrozenberg6077]

THANK U SIR! UR THE BEST!

[@christopherkelly6558]

Direct Wave Is The New Wave!!

[@NavieD]

Direct 🌊 is the new 🌊

[@christopherkelly6558]

@@NavieD 🚫🧢 💪🏾

[@KidEskomo]

Helpful and different as usually 🔥🔥 can you make a master video soon cuz ya beats are so clean and loud

[@H4554ni]

Sir your video saved my life.

[@NavieD]

So this is what it feels like to be a hero

[@13Skribbles]

I wish you would make this video but with logic Shaping that 808 ….I’d like to see how you do that in logic

[@KarasamaBeats]

First Comment :D btw yes i still continue going through this :( , but now not anymore ! Thx man u are saving lives

[@NavieD]

Hahah Soulo, you're a true ride or die now

[@KarasamaBeats]

Navie D. Haha xD

[@binman5753]

YOU ARE SUCH A GOD

[@NavieD]

As are you Binman

[@zero2herobeatspaul882]

I’m lazy and just use the 808s in Flex, but these are some real knowledge gems. Especially using DirectWave for oneshots is what I’m going to experiment with. I’m still curious about your reverb game, which makes your beat sound so full with not that many layers. Hint.

[@NavieD]

Putting out a video within the next few weeks to show what tools I use to get my beats to sound how they sound

[@CRayBeats]

Change the channel polyphony to 1 if using the volume envelope. This will ensure only one note plays at a time.

[@NavieD]

Yeah I did that, even in the video I showed it. It doesn't work

[@CRayBeats]

@@NavieD okay I will report a bug.

[@CRayBeats]

@@NavieD If you uncheck the mono it will cut itself.. I still reported because I'm not sure it's supposed to be like that.

[@karimhusseinjunior]

Navie pls help in this when i try to apply the slide notes to my 808’s i cant hear none of them like i didnt even put the note in the first place please help !!!!!

[@freenilo]

and it’s perfect

[@jameswhite4709]

Direct wave is slept on goat

[@NavieD]

It is super helpful

[@laxerscooter1448]

Dropping game frfr

[@prod.jordan]

watching all your videos

[@rocknrollrulesu2]

Hey man great tutorial. Just curious, what’s your background in music production? You seem to know everything pretty well in and out and was interested in knowing if your self taught or school based.

[@NavieD]

Self taught my friend. Been doing it for like 13 years or something

[@jamerv777smerf]

You have so many 808s bro omg where can I get some of these, as well as some kicks and snares🙌🏽 PLEASE!

[@jamerv777smerf]

Pretty please, D

[@NavieD]

I just got them off Splice my man

[@jamerv777smerf]

@@NavieD think you could make a kick, snare, and 808 drum kit of some of your faves🤞😬 lol

[@10kucold23]

great and intresting video bro . wouldit e possible to do a video on auto tune? with pitcher ?

[@NavieD]

Thanks Riaz! Pitcher is definitely on the list of things to cover

[@10kucold23]

Thanks navie :)

[@JAYFLOPROBEATS]

Man watching him make that square envelope then saying what he said made my heart fall out my ass lmao... I'm so guilty of that regularly. I mean hell thats the only way I knew how to get the 808 to cut off. Now, Direct Wave fittin to be underneath me like a overly hyper pet dog that's waiting for me at the door when I walk into the house. lol

[@FerrisThatJointLit]

Has the bug ever been fixed since then for the cut itself issue?

[@NomadNomadCZ]

I just wanna add to the square technique: the 808 still preserves its tail as long as the note is long enough for the tail to be played.

[@NavieD]

Ah, true, true. I guess the way I see it used most commonly is to make the note end abruptly

[@NomadNomadCZ]

@@NavieD That kinda solves your cutting problem, just make sure the release knob is completely off.

[@ArchanaAgarwalAg]

Super 👍

[@massimocaria6457]

You should actually make put your hold all the way up and the rest of them down, then if you want your 808 to have a tail just turn up the out knob it will also prevent your 808’s from bleeding into a upcoming pattern selection without 808’s in the playlist. Dope video tho👌🏼

[@gabrielb2539]

dude could you recommend some headsets for producing beats and mixing?

[@NavieD]

I have audio technica M50s but honestly I rarely use them. I prefer to use my speakers

[@cycledelic7066]

There's a so much easier way to boost your 808s just click on the sample and click the second icon on the effects area and turn the boost knob up, it also has a soft clip too so u can add grit your 808s without degrading it.

[@LucidDreamsBeats]

😭 im like a 5 years grinder and just learned this wow thanks

[@NavieD]

Hahah no prob Lucid

[@dawgheart12]

Navie D. With the sauce.

[@NavieD]

🍝🍝🍝 we eatin

[@centaurlweyster5429]

Navie Please Make sure you Upload Your when done doing a tutorial so we can listen some more

[@bolddocclmare5212]

So, is normalization similar to compression? if not, why not?

[@NavieD]

No sir. Normalization is just an overall volume boost. Compression actually changes the shape of the waveform and makes it different

[@beatkontor6672]

@7:39 because busyworksbeats, told them to

[@2HavicMusic]

im trying to do the directwave 808 "cut itself" technique you showed here, but in direct wave it doesnt let me open the "Zone" tab. after i click the zone tab a little window pops up saying "Save As Variation : This feature is not available in DW Player!" any idea what that is? or am i screwed with over lapping 808s :( ?

[@NavieD]

Odd, are you using an older version of FL?

[@2HavicMusic]

@@NavieD should be the newest version, i only got FL at the end of May this year so i cant imagine it'd be behind on updates

[@atp19xx]

Just so that if someone wonders [in the future]: There is two versions of DirectWave. Player and Full. Full version is not available in Producer and Fruity editions of FL Studio, you need Signature or All Plugins editon.

[@2HavicMusic]

@@atp19xx ahhhhhh alright, that answers it. thank you , i got the Prod. Edition, sheit

[@nightlight4259]

Send me the link of this instrument plz .its dope

[@rn3561]

woah since when did Nav start making beats? 💀 subbed 🔥😂

[@NavieD]

u silly

[@m___motion5976]

Why is my directwave not letting me go into zone or sample options?

[@scratchgotcrazybeats44]

Bro maybe start sound design tutorials too, I don't wanna use other producers drumkits and I guess other producers too want to have their own unique sounds. Just an idea :)

[@NavieD]

Hmm yeah I have been trying to think of a way to approach sound design in a new, interesting way

[@scratchgotcrazybeats44]

@@NavieD You can focus on individual sounds by making a series on it like kick, snare, tonal shots, etc. I'm really excited about this bro. Not many good channel out there going indepth on sound design.

[@tommace1500]

👍👍👍

[@NavieD]

🧠🧠🧠

[@don2nd650]

Free sauce

[@NavieD]

🍝🍝 we eatin that sauce