Nabeel Ansari

Read the first post, and read the title of the forum (i just changed it for more clarity since people don't read OP's). I'm not defending FL Studio, I'm defending the freakin thread. The purpose of this thread is for people to learn about different ways to utilize the tools in FL Studio. If I wanted to ask about general workflows, I wouldn't have put it in the FL STUDIO sub forum. You wanna talk about Reason, there's a forum for that.

I thought you used Ableton? This isn't a how you write your music thread, this is a HOW YOU USE FL STUDIO thread.

Wow, that was quick. Thread goal accomplished, BUT LET'S KEEP GOING! I also want to add that I made an FL Studio template to preroute mixer tracks and MIDI Out channels for Kontakt, if anyone wants but doesn't feel like routing the whole damn thing in every new project.

In my experience that's very lucky.

There's also many people on OCR who do this stuff professionally, you should give them a chance before you go looking elsewhere.

I can understand why some people would prefer the original Kirby fast paced blippy songs over the jazzy Peanuts style piano songs, but I don't think either styles are "better", Mono, just more tailored to what we want.

I'm probably setting off a bomb for pro guitarists here, but: I have a First Act Electric Guitar I picked up at Toys R Us a year ago. I run it through Guitar Rig 4 Pro, which I got for free when I bought Audio Kontrol 1. Sounds pretty decent, but I haven't replaced the strings... ever, period. And that was a year ago, so I might be overdue on that...

/brandonstrader

I disagree.

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What you're DOING isn't stupid, weird, and old. I said YOU'RE stupid, weird, and old. GET IT STRAIGHT YA OLD COOT. Anyways, have you played with the attack and release knobs on the limiter as opposed to just thres and ratio? this helps TIME the compression better.

You're stupid, weird, and old. In all seriousness, you should come to grips with the new sidechaining. It's much more elegant in sound.

It's not as simple as running something through a sample library. There needs to be time paid to delicate humanization. It's not a matter of just switching the articulations in MIDI. And it's different for every sample library, which is why it's better to leave articulations and humanization to the guy that has them. Another thing: don't make separate tracks for different articulations. That would require a ridiculous amount of the same samples just for different articulations. Samplers like PLAY have something called "Keyswitch" articulations, where hitting a specific key would change the articulation. Naturally this WOULDN'T WORK if the articulation you want was suddenly in a different channel, because it's applying the keyswitch to the one channel, not to the other. The way you have it right now is that they'd open 4 of the same string patch and have a different articulation for each already on default, which just uses up more RAM.

QFT This is needlessly consuming of 2 seconds, but it's reliable and works every time.

It works fine for me, for some reason. The export menu says it'll render 189 bars. I'd reinstall FL Studio and see if it helps, because it works fine for me.

Cut remainder in the export menu? Also, make sure you don't leave your song loop marker at the end of the track, just stick it at the beginning of the first measure.

Ditch the DJ. It's tacky, overdone, and you're not a real DJ.

Great mix. Very retro style, but you got a lot of got of musical substance going on in this. This is one mix that proves that old, not as modern production styles still work used in the right context.

Slightly incorrect. If you have a pattern clip in the tracks view, you can double click that clip to edit the pattern. I never use the pattern block view (I use the pattern number thing way up top). Concerning pattern blocks, it's becoming a legacy option that you need to manually turn on in the FL Studio versions following the current 9.

Imagine waiting even longer only to get NO'd by the judges. Instant reject to the WiP Mods is much faster. You don't have to wait for the overflowing, clogged panel queue to start moving when the submissions inbox reaches you.

You can get a Core i7 8XX CPU and an LGA 1156 motherboard for cheaper. You might lose performance, but I know I personally would never be able to reach the limit of a Core i7 chip (i don't just do everything in soundfonts either ). I apologize, perhaps I shouldn't have haphazardly made a PSU recommendation, I was more bothered that it was $150 than trying to get you to buy a specific one. Yeah, prophet is probably gonna yell at me. The general message I was trying to convey is that you're probably paying a little more for this machine than you have to. (you = your friend)

So you hired the WiP Mods for absolutely no reason other than to make those guys feel better about themselves? You made those guys staff for a reason, you should direct insta rejected people to them instead of clogging up the panel.

You can get the Cooler Master Storm Scout Case AND an included 700 watt power supply for 169.98 (with shipping). I think it's a better deal than your $100 power supply plus a $150 case. :/ http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119235&cm_re=storm_scout-_-11-119-235-_-Product You can also trim that RAM by almost half the price with the same 6 GB and 1600 Mhz. http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231225&cm_re=G._SKILL-_-20-231-225-_-Product Other than disagreeing with your largely expensive Motherboard/CPU/GPU combo, I think you should be good to go afterwards.

FPC? Seems like that's your best bet.

Hey guys, this FL Studio forum needs some life again. Why not post the different ways we work in FL Studio to give ideas to more inexperienced members? They can try one of the many ones that could get posted in here and choose the one that works for them best. Sometimes being exposed to other workflows is helpful because they may not think of everything. I'll start: I write entirely in MIDI patterns. -The Step Sequencer: I have all my channels in categories. The three main groups I have for electronic are percussion, synth, and acoustic. I also have audio clips and automation clips. Sometimes for other genres, I might have "Kontakt" as its own group, or just "acoustic" and "synth". -The Piano Roll: When I double a melody (or anything) to be in harmony or an octave up/down, I change the new set of notes's color so I can select them by color and move them around/edit them easier. -The Playlist: I have one instrument per track. If I layer stuff to be consistent and to be one thick element (like different drum samples together or two pads for better timbre), I give the track that element instead of each layer getting a track. This is usually easy when I have more than one layer in the same pattern. After each element, I keep automation clips in the same track as the element to consolidate and save vertical space (plus it's easier to tell what the clip is doing) I write everything in patterns and spawn them to the playlist. To make variations, I clone clips and make them unique. I name and color each track and use "Auto Name Children" to rename the patterns and color them. Sometimes I open up the pattern blocks editor to reorganize which pattern is assigned to which number. I never use pattern blocks. -The Mixer: I usually have one track per instrument and make a separate track for each combination of effects I want to apply to a specific set of instruments. For instance, I might route a bunch of drum samples to each own track, and then have mixer combination tracks. One for all the hi hats, one for everything, one for all the layer loops, and maybe one for the kick and snare. I do this by routing the mixer track output not to the master, but the selected mixer track of choice. -TO RECORD: I usually record right into the playlist. After I record, I delete everything on the mixer track I recorded into and use that same track to process the recorded audio.