redtails Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Do you know any way of quickly changing the current note color that you're drawing in? Right now I'm having to resort to actually clicking on it, which is sort of a pain... I'd love this feature as well, I currently must ctrl+drag to select notes and then alt+c to change colours.. While they're at it I'd also like bigger differences in colour as I really can't tell the difference without actually listening where it's sending it to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monobrow Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 I mouse everything in. I also never use patterns. >:[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted May 9, 2011 Author Share Posted May 9, 2011 I mouse everything in. I also never use patterns. >:[] YOU FIEND So what, one pattern per instrument track? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC2151 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Man, I just finally learned how to use automation clips and the playlist to have sections of a song in different tempo. I'm such a boss. And like Monobrow, I never use patterns and also input every single note in by mouse (of course something like a drum-loop I made I would copy-paste it over and over as needed). Though maybe now that I know how to use the playlist I can do something with that... Eh, either way it doesn't really matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixto Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I mouse everything in! Use only patterns! Then I export a MIDI file and do the rest somewhere else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeroboros Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 From Melody composition, beat sequencing, and mixing things down, fl studio does the job for me. It is damn sure ram hungry but with 10 gigs of ram im not worried about it boging down my pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erineclipse Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 Man, I just finally learned how to use automation clips and the playlist to have sections of a song in different tempo.I'm such a boss. And like Monobrow, I never use patterns and also input every single note in by mouse (of course something like a drum-loop I made I would copy-paste it over and over as needed). Though maybe now that I know how to use the playlist I can do something with that... Eh, either way it doesn't really matter. Have you figured out how to get rid of tempo lag? For example there's a delay went FL studio tries to change tempo from automation clips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDRKirby(ISQ) Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 speaking of tempo automation, do you guys generally use edit events or automation clips for tempo changes? I think I generally find IIRC that automation clips are really buggy for me for some reason when it comes to tempo changes (note that my automation clip isn't the length of the whole song) or maybe it was just when I tried to combine the two that all hell broke loose. heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 For tempo changes, I just use automation clips. I never have any problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eilios Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 For tempo changes, I just use automation clips. I never have any problems. Same here. I never actually use edit events for everything because they're stupid. >[noparse][/noparse] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 Same here. I never actually use edit events for everything because they're stupid. >[noparse][/noparse] Edit events are good for when you're actually recording automation (and good for editing very flexible stuff like wah) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Same here. I never actually use edit events for everything because they're stupid. >[noparse][/noparse] It's not such a bad way to automate. I kinda found it hard... no, impossible... to keep track of event edits at first, but I found that there's a list of event edits sorted by pattern in the "Current Project" tab in the browser, so that made them usable in my book. Plus, I find it easier to pencil in automation in the edit events piano roll than in the automation clip. Since you can export edit events automation to an automation clip, that's kinda become my mode of choice for automation. Basically, you get the flexibility of the event editor (LFOs, many drawing tools, etc.) with the visibility of an automation clip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted July 17, 2011 Author Share Posted July 17, 2011 Since you can export edit events automation to an automation clip, that's kinda become my mode of choice for automation. Didn't know this but I never use Edit Events anyway. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid wind Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 edit events are easy to keep track of if you compose your entire song in one pattern, which is what I used to do I've been using a more standard approach to the program as of late, it's a little slower for me to get stuff down at first but it has it's benefit if I decide to completely re-arrange the song structure later on...this entirely makes no sense for me because most of what I do musically lately is compos... does anyone else use a wave candy template to replace the default scopes? I have 3 wave candies on my master by default Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonicThHedgog Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 I'v started to use fl as a backup daw. since (2 weeks ago) my version of ableton 8.1.x had the brown henke dither problem making my tracks sound very muffled (and cubase was on another pc),fl was great while I was updating my ableton version. but how I got ableton to sound good before is a mystery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted July 19, 2011 Author Share Posted July 19, 2011 VISTA ARRGAARAHHHTARGAAHRGAGHAR haet u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid wind Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 it's terrible and everything but I don't feel like giving MS another $100 so eh, stuck with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share Posted July 21, 2011 it's terrible and everything but I don't feel like giving MS another $100 so eh, stuck with it Well what kind of system are you running? FL Studio is a resource hog, and so is Vista, so you kinda have a bad combo there unless you have like an i7 or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid wind Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I have 3 gigs of RAM and an AMD athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU I do plan to upgrade soonish but when I do I'm just going to get a new computer, for the time being I usually don't hit any walls where it's really overloading my comp anyway unless I use inefficient plugins(most synthedit stuff ...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabeel Ansari Posted July 21, 2011 Author Share Posted July 21, 2011 I have 3 gigs of RAM and an AMD athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPUI do plan to upgrade soonish but when I do I'm just going to get a new computer, for the time being I usually don't hit any walls where it's really overloading my comp anyway unless I use inefficient plugins(most synthedit stuff ...) Get an i7. It's worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid wind Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 yeah I plan to make my next computer a total beast so I can just run nearly anything anyway back on FL advice, I've recently started actually using the plugin picker, I used to ignore it because it bombards you with a ton of stuff at first and doesn't seem as fast but it's really useful if you go in and customize it. FL Studio 10 > Data > Patches > Plugin Database, delete everything you don't use often, then in FL you can add things to it by selecting the database in the browser and there's an option to add the current plugin to the selected folder in the plugin wrapper. then you can insert any of your go-to plugins just by hitting ctrl F8 or right clicking the FX slots in the mixer(wish there was a way to just bring up generators like this...). you can also take most of your sample based stuff like slicex, sf2 player, granulator etc out because you can just open those from the browser with the desired samples another thing I didn't know about the picker is that when you add plugin to database it saves its state and will load that, so if you want to change the default of something(eew sytrus strings...), just delete it, change the settings, and re-add it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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