To time-stretch your sample from Edison to your FL Studio project tempo, you must have your tempo embedded in your sample. Once this is done, you simply need to have your sample exist in a channel on the step sequencer. This is extremely vital to working with your sample and getting the best out of your project. If your tempo is not embedded in your sample, these steps will not work.

Let's study the steps required to time-stretch our sample to our FL Studio project.

When you adjust your FL Studio project tempo as shown in Fig 7.26, your sample will stretch accordingly, but the pitch will change. This is because your drop-down menu next to TIME is still defaulted to Resample. The lower your project tempo, the lower in pitch your sample will become, but it will still stretch as much as it can. When working with a loop, you will notice the pitch of your sample (both the harmony and the percussion) will get very low when adjusting to a slow tempo. When you raise the tempo higher, your sample pitch will increase accordingly and simultaneously get faster.

Fig 7.28 shows different rules because we have changed our stretching method to Pro default. This means that our sample will keep the same pitch irrespective of our main project tempo. If we adjust the main project tempo very slow, our sample will be very slow, but it will maintain the same pitch as that of the original sample. If we make our tempo fast, our sample will get faster, yet still maintain the same pitch as the source audio sample from Edison.

There are different reasons for using both of the methods mentioned earlier. Sometimes, you want to keep the same pitch no matter what your project tempo is (using the Pro default method). At other times, you want to have a chopped and screwed type of effect, and that can be managed by keeping your stretching method as Resample.