Top 20 FL Studio Tips & Tricks
FL guru Tyler Coffin brings you comprehensive FL Studio video tutorials! These are the Top 20 things you need to know when working in FL Studio 20 that will make using FL Studio easier, faster and more creative! From workflows, editing, and programming, to mixing, exporting and more, these videos are a must see for any FL Studio user. These videos are designed for both new and experienced FL Studio users.
Videos
• Introduction & Overview (02:13) - To begin, get some background FL Studio information to better help understand the tips and tricks that are to follow in the videos.
• FL Studio Problem-Solving Helpers (06:04) - FL Studio is packed with ways to get extra hints while working in the many sections. Learn where you can find all these little helpers so they can shed light on the features you're working with.
• Using Macros (09:53) - Some tasks may be tedious or repetitive to do, so FL Studio gives you the ability to automatically take care of some work and save you some valuable production time.
• Customizing the Layout for Workflow (05:37) - FL Studio has a flexible interface to work with, and because of that, you can customize and optimize it for exactly the way you want to work. See how!
• Helpful Practices with MIDI Setup (06:49) - To get MIDI controllers working is a simple task, but to get them working to their maximum potential, you'll need to take a few extra steps to get them optimized. Watch how.
• Implementing Layer Channels (06:00) - An often overlooked feature of FL Studio is the Layer Channel. There are some very handy uses for it, and in this video you'll dive into them.
• Drum Programming with Layers, FPC, & Slicex (09:46) - Sampler Channels are great for working with drums, but you can take your percussive exploits to new levels using some of the other sample and loop based tools in FL Studio.
• Using Patcher as a Generator (11:23) - Patcher is a hugely useful and open-ended tool for a ton of different reasons. In this video, see what you can take and use with Patcher as a Generator for new inspiration.
• Freezing Tracks & Sampling Instruments (08:46) - Running a great deal of instruments and effects can eventually take its toll on a computer's CPU, so here you'll learn some simple ways to alleviate that stress and keep things running glitch-free.
• Getting Creative with the Piano Roll (13:53) - FL Studio's Piano Roll is one of the star players in its workflow, and its many tools have mountains of possibilities built in and ready to go. Discover them in this video.
• The Picker Panel (06:33) - As a pretty straightforward part of the Playlist, the Picker Panel is useful enough. But under the hood, there are some subtle yet very powerful features waiting to be implemented.
• Different Displays for Waveforms (05:19) - Seeing waveforms in the Playlist and elsewhere can be a helpful tool in itself simply by making the appearance show valuable information about the sound. Here, we take a look and how and what you can get from your audio display options.
• Quickly Saving & Copying Across FL Studio (03:00) - As a huge time saver, you can quickly drag and drop all sorts of parameters and settings without hardly a thought about it. In this video see just how that works.
• Adjusting the Preview Mixer Track (03:31) - Ever notice that any FL Studio sound just comes out of the master when previewing or using the metronome? Usually that's fine, but here you'll see how you can use a quick trick to change things up for different and creative uses.
• Utilizing Views & Features of the Mixer (06:45) - The Mixer is packed with information that can be presented in several ways. In this video, see which ones have what strengths and discover a few mixing and routing possibilities in the Mixer.
• Convolver & Edison for Creative Purposes (07:04) - Edison is a powerful audio editor on its own, and within FL Studio, it has a lot of excellent uses for simply recording and editing. But, when paired elsewhere with other plug-ins like Convolver, you can unlock new avenues to create new sounds.
• Using Patcher as an Effect (08:12) - Here we return to Patcher, but this time we do so as an effect in the Mixer. Many things are familiar, but you can go in so many new directions to do essentially anything with effects routes. See how!
• Visualizers for Analyzing & Amusement (06:24) - Visualizers are both fun and useful. Wave Candy can give you some excellent visual representations of sound, while ZGameEditor allows you to create entertaining movement that reacts to your music. Here, we work through the many benefits of both.
• Tips for Recording Audio (04:51) - Recording audio in FL Studio is simple and easy to do on the surface. Diving further into it though, there's a lot more that you can do than simply put a recording on the Playlist. This video demonstrates some cool possibilities!
• Exporting Projects, MIDI, & More (07:45) - Whether you're finished with your project and want an MP3 to share, or you have more work to do and need MIDI data and stems, FL Studio has you covered with tons of settings to tweak and enable on export.
• A Brief Look at MIDI Scripting (03:47) - As a more recently implemented feature in FL, MIDI Scripting allows for total control of a MIDI device through actual programming of the script for its interface with the program. It is a fairly advanced topic, but there are a lot of opportunities within it, and here we take a peek into it.
• Miscellaneous Tricks & Conclusion (04:22) - Before we close things out, we'll go through a few tips and tricks that we haven't touched on earlier, including using the Picker Panel to transpose patterns, taking advantage of the "Store in Spare State" option of plug-ins, and locking parts of the Playlist, Mixer and Channel Rack.