FL Studio
Sampling with Edison: Record, Chop & Flip Anything in FL Studio
Edison is FL Studio's Swiss-army audio editor — a recorder, chopper and cleaner living inside any mixer slot. Producers who master it stop hunting packs and start making their own material.
Record anything
Drop Edison on a mixer insert (or the master), arm the record button set to 'On input', and whatever passes through gets captured — your synth jam, a resampled mixer bus, vinyl from a turntable input.
Trim, normalize, done
Select the useful part, Ctrl+Del cuts everything else, then Alt+N normalizes level. Drag the waveform (the little drag handle, top-left) straight into the Playlist or Channel rack.
Instant chops
Hit the 'slice' regions tool or mark regions manually (right-click the timeline → add marker) — dragging to the Playlist then offers each region as its own clip. It's the fastest route from a 4-bar loop to rearranged chops.
Clean-up tools
The brush-icon menu hides gold: denoiser (learn a noise profile from silence, subtract it), declipper for hot recordings, and blur/convolution for texture experiments.
Resample your own beat
Route your melody bus into an empty insert, record 8 bars in Edison, then reverse/stretch/re-pitch the bounce and layer it back under the original. Self-sampling makes beats sound expensive for free.
Detect a sample’s key & BPM first →Drop any sample — get key, tempo and Camelot code free.Frequently asked questions
How do I record only one track into Edison?
Put Edison on that track's own mixer insert instead of the master, and it captures only what flows through that insert.
Why is my Edison recording silent?
The record mode is probably 'On play' with no input routed. Set the mixer track's input (or route audio into it) and use 'On input'.
Edison vs Slicex — which for chopping?
Edison is for editing and capturing; Slicex is for playing chops musically. Capture and clean in Edison, then load the result into Slicex.