FL Studio Know-How: Getting Started
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5:20 Introduction
Learn how to set the audio interface and buffer size FL Studio will use, and take a brief first look at the multiple windows found in FL Studio.
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5:32 The Channel Rack
Explore the channel rack controls and the various ways of browsing and loading in sounds.
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4:50 Step Sequences & Patterns
Learn how to create, name, colour, and program step sequence patterns of different lengths.
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6:30 Editing Note Properties
Discover how to edit various note properties like filter cutoff, resonance, velocity, panning, and pitch, for individual steps contained within a step sequence pattern.
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6:49 Working in the Piano Roll
Follow along as a bass part is created using the draw tool in the Piano Roll, and explore some of the window’s basic selection and edit functions.
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5:50 The Playlist
Learn how to place multiple pattern clips onto tracks in the Playlist so they play back together.
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5:09 Automation Clips
See how automation clips are created and edited, and used to alter the values of parameters over time.
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6:30 Working in the Mixer
Learn how to auto name the mixer tracks, control the relative level and balance between the instruments, and work with plug-in effects in the Track Inspector Panel.
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4:23 Exporting Your Work
Learn about the various options and settings used to consolidate and export your FL Studio project into an audio file.
Product Overview
Have you ever wanted to learn Image Line’s FL Studio from the ground up? Well DAW guru Eli Krantzberg is your guide for beginning your FL Studio journey in these in-depth video tutorials!
Eli covers the info needed to understand just what FL Studio is and how to get around it, as well as basic setup, configuration, sequencing, editing, mixing and more!
See the individual tutorial descriptions below for more info. Learn FL Studio right, watch “FL Studio Know-How: Getting Started” today!
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Submitted 4 months ago
As always, great videos at great monthly value.
I learned a lot from the Reaper tutorials and know the FL Studio videos will be great.
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Submitted 5 months ago
very helpful
It's the best when it comes to the tutorials, training and learning and if you want you can always rewind it and very Informative to watch thanks.
I am a: Beginner, Musician, Producer, FL Studio
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Submitted 7 months ago
Really helpful and informative
The presenter goes a bit fast at times but that turns out to be good because you pause the video and try it out, or go back a lot and get a better understanding.
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Submitted 1 year ago
Excellent, straight to the point!
This was awesome, straight to the point on understanding the software.
I am a: Semi-Pro, Audio Engineer, Pro Tools
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Submitted 2 years ago
Great Intro
Although pretty basic, this tutorial gave me actually what I needed to get started with FL. I have never used it before (I use Maschine and Studio One) so it helped me to get started. Again very basic, but enough to get going.
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Submitted 2 years ago
very good detail!
understanding a new daw
I am a: Professional, Musician, Producer, Beat Maker, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Mastering Facility, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Reason, Studio One
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Submitted 2 years ago
It's ok.
It's a very simple 101 Course explaining just the basics. I'd like full-on course explaining all the details that were just touched on here. n
I am a: Beginner, Producer, Beat Maker, FL Studio
Response from Customer Service:
You are correct, this is the 'Getting Started' tutorial for FL Studio so it will go over the basics and begineer concepts. We have other FL Studio tutorials that go beyond the basics. Check them out in our FL Studio category under DAW.
And even more to come! Stay tuned
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Submitted 2 years ago
Great tutorial as a starter :)
I wanted to refresh my knowledge of FL Studio without burning steps. So I thought starting from 0 would be the right thing to do. Good tutorial.
I am a: Semi-Pro
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Submitted 2 years ago
Good for Starting out
Very helpful to get started into this software
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Submitted 2 years ago
Very helpful
One of the best tutorials for starting out with FL Studio
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Reviews
Submitted 4 months ago
As always, great videos at great monthly value.
I learned a lot from the Reaper tutorials and know the FL Studio videos will be great.
Submitted 5 months ago
very helpful
It's the best when it comes to the tutorials, training and learning and if you want you can always rewind it and very Informative to watch thanks.
I am a: Beginner, Musician, Producer, FL Studio
Submitted 7 months ago
Really helpful and informative
The presenter goes a bit fast at times but that turns out to be good because you pause the video and try it out, or go back a lot and get a better understanding.
Submitted 1 year ago
Excellent, straight to the point!
This was awesome, straight to the point on understanding the software.
I am a: Semi-Pro, Audio Engineer, Pro Tools
Submitted 2 years ago
Great Intro
Although pretty basic, this tutorial gave me actually what I needed to get started with FL. I have never used it before (I use Maschine and Studio One) so it helped me to get started. Again very basic, but enough to get going.
Response from :
Submitted 2 years ago
very good detail!
understanding a new daw
I am a: Professional, Musician, Producer, Beat Maker, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Mastering Facility, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Reason, Studio One
Submitted 2 years ago
It's ok.
It's a very simple 101 Course explaining just the basics. I'd like full-on course explaining all the details that were just touched on here. n
I am a: Beginner, Producer, Beat Maker, FL Studio
Response from Customer Service:
You are correct, this is the 'Getting Started' tutorial for FL Studio so it will go over the basics and begineer concepts. We have other FL Studio tutorials that go beyond the basics. Check them out in our FL Studio category under DAW.
And even more to come! Stay tuned
Submitted 2 years ago
Great tutorial as a starter :)
I wanted to refresh my knowledge of FL Studio without burning steps. So I thought starting from 0 would be the right thing to do. Good tutorial.
I am a: Semi-Pro
Submitted 2 years ago
Good for Starting out
Very helpful to get started into this software
Submitted 2 years ago
Very helpful
One of the best tutorials for starting out with FL Studio
1. When did you start dabbling in music?
I started playing drums in high school at age fourteen. Like most kids my age around then, I was into progressive rock. Genesis, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and Yes. They rocked my world. A few short years later though, my musical life changed. While studying music in college I discovered Charlie Parker, Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, and John Coltrane. Milt Jackson spoke to me in such a profound way that it left me no choice but to take up vibraphone.
These great players, along with drummers like Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Elvin Jones changed not only the way I thought about drumming, but also music - and by extension, life - as a whole. I realized life was meant to be a creative endeavor. The idea of improvising based on a loose set of guidelines and rules permeated into my psyche even when I wasn't holding a pair of drumsticks or mallets. But if I am going to be perfectly truthful, I have to hold Henry Miller and Woody Allen equally responsible for shaping the way I view and experience the world around me.
2. What training have you had?
I am currently an Apple certified Logic Pro. Young and cocky, and armed with only a partial University degree, I dropped out of school and began playing steady commercial hotel engagements and jazz gigs when I could. This went on for many years until I decided it was time to complete my degree - which I ultimately did with a major in Political Science and a minor in music.
It was at this point that I formed my current band Nightshift. We are going in to our twenty third year now - playing commercial one nighters like weddings, corporate events, etc. Don't turn your nose up at it though - it has allowed me a wonderful quality of life. It gave me the freedom to go back to school and complete a post graduate degree in Communications Studies - all the while supporting myself by playing weddings.
3. When did you get into recording?
It was in this graduate program - in the early nineties - that I found myself drawn to the fledgling emerging universe of hard disc recording and midi sequencing. Based on nothing more than the recommendation of one of my band mates who had an old Atari, I jumped in head first and bought a Mac LC ll, along with a version 1.1 of what was then Notator Logic. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. But, in hindsight, it was a decision of epic importance in my life - shaping my future as much as the music of Milt Jackson and Charlie Parker did fifteen years prior.
I opened up my own commercial home studio in 1998 and began doing a variety of projects, working on radio jingles, artist CD projects, and whatever came my way. A couple of years later a colleague called me up - desperate. He was working at a post production house and one of the editors had just quit. They were doing audio post for a weekly TV series and needed a Pro Tools editor - and fast! And so, once again, I jumped in head first into what would ultimately open up my world even more - the world of Pro Tools.
4. People you have worked with/for?
Focusing on Logic, I built up a small but loyal client base and my phone kept ringing for Logic tech support and instruction. Film composers and studio owners all over the city were calling me. Even the music stores were giving out my phone number at this point! This kind of stuff becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. The more of it you do, the more calls you get to keep doing it. At least that's the way it should be!
As my Logic chops kept growing, I was hired by an old buddy of mine, Len Sasso, who was then an associate editor at Electronic Musician magazine, and began writing some columns for them. I had a blast doing them - and really learned to focus and express my thoughts in a concise and clear manner. This lead to a collaboration with LA based composer Terry Michael Huud on the 2006 film called Civic Duty - which was certainly one of the highlights of my professional life as a composer.
5. Why are you so good at training people?
I wake up every day excited to boot up, and create. Whether it's instructional videos, creating music, working with a studio client, performing with my band, or teaching at the schools - my days are filled with what I love doing. Enriched by the stimulation and creative freedom this modern music making software brings to my life. I bring that excitement and passion to each and every training product I create. My years of experience both using and teaching these programs has taught me the best way to make the user comfortable with these complex programs.
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tutorial videoAAS Strum GS-2 Explained
In this FREE series commissioned by Applied Acoustic Systems, Eli Krantzberg covers the expansive performance library of electric and acoustic guitar strumming inside and out, and shows you how to make Strum GS-2 your new favorite session guitarist!
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tutorial videoAirEQ Explained
Eli Krantzberg returns with an in-depth series on the amazing AirEQ by Eiosis, which was designed with a vision of achieving musical, technical and sonic excellence in equalization. This just might become your to go-to EQ!
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tutorial videoAlchemy 2 Explained
Logic Pro X 10.2 integrated Alchemy 2, one of the most powerful virtual instruments ever made. In this three-hour video training tutorial series, Eli Krantzberg teaches you how to become a Alchemy wizard and unleash all of its power on your music!
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tutorial videoApogee Maestro 2 Explained
Maestro 2 is Apogee's flexible and powerful OS X Mixer software solution that's included with all Apogee interfaces. Studio master Eli Krantzberg shows you everything you need to know about Maestro 2, as well as how to get the best performance out of your Apogee interface and improve your workflow.
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