How to Record MIDI in FL Studio
How to Record MIDI in FL Studio MIDI stands for musical instrument digital interface, and it’s a way for computers and digital instruments such as keyboards to talk to each other. It’s used in pretty much every DAW out there today, including FL Studio. One of the great things about digital audio is its ability to replicate things that were traditionally done with tons of outboard analog gear. Technology has progressed to the point that we can now record a live performance digitally using MIDI. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to record MIDI in FL Studio. Let’s get to […]
How to Change the Background in FL Studio
How to Change the Background in FL Studio Everyone loves customization. Luckily for us, FL Studio comes with some cool customization options that you can use for a unique beat making and music production experience. Whether it’s something motivational, an interesting pattern or texture, or your favorite Instagram model you’re after, we have you covered. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to find your FL Studio background size and how to change the background in FL Studio. FL Studio Background Size In order for your background to look good without plastering copies of the same image all over your work […]
How to Quantize in FL Studio (4 Ways)
How to Quantize in FL Studio (4 Ways) “Quantize” can mean a few different things depending on who you’re talking to. To mathematicians and engineers, quantization is a process that takes continuous data such as an analog electrical signal and converts it to an approximated digital signal comprised of discrete points at set intervals. This is what’s going on inside the A/D (analog-to-digital) converter of your audio interface. The estimation results in what we call quantization error, and can differ depending on the quantization method used. Although quantization in signal processing is still very important to understand for anyone involved in digital […]
How to Randomize Velocity in FL Studio
How to Randomize Velocity in FL Studio The FL Studio Piano roll has a neat feature that allows us to save time and add random and subtle variation to the velocity and volume of each MIDI note. This effect will end up making your piece sound more like a human made it, and less like a computer. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to randomize velocity in FL Studio. Let’s check it out. What is Velocity? When a pianist plays the piano, we call the speed at which he or she strikes the keys the velocity. The velocity alters the […]
How to Find a Sample’s Pitch in FL Studio
How to Find a Sample’s Pitch in FL Studio Having an awareness of the spectral content and frequencies present in each instrument and sample you use in your track can be very powerful. Part of our goal when mixing is to make sure there is enough room in the frequency spectrum for each instrument and sample at any given time. This helps to create balance in your mix and will make your track sound better overall. To drill down even more, it’s good to know what notes your instruments and samples coincide with. Music theory says that the notes on […]
How to Copy and Paste in FL Studio
How to Copy and Paste in FL Studio Shortcuts make everyone’s lives easier, and FL Studio is one DAW that is absolutely full of them. Knowing and applying shortcuts can save you hours of time and allows you to focus on the creative part of music production as opposed to the repetitive and tedious parts. Arguably two of the most important of all of the FL Studio keyboard shortcuts are Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V). This tutorial will show you exactly how to copy and paste in FL Studio, along with some other useful related shortcuts and the specific situations […]
Using Ghost Notes in FL Studio
Ghost Notes in FL Studio FL Studio is know for it’s awesomely user-friendly Piano roll functionality, among other things. One way to make your Piano roll workflow more efficient is by using ghost notes in FL Studio. Ghost notes are transparent notes from one channel in the Channel rack that show up in another channel when working in the Piano roll. They make it easy to see what notes another instrument is playing in the same pattern, and can help when layering instruments together. Here we can see two Sytrus channels in the Channel rack. One channel has notes programmed […]