NoWave Posted November 26, 2003 Posted November 26, 2003 I'm trying to play live using soft synths through fruity loops. I've got everything configured and eqed up the way I want it. Now I've got two questions. Firstly. In fruity loops would I be able to assign two separate MIDI controllers to two different parameters, say one keyboard for leads and noise machine and the other for pads. strings and choirs? Secondly is there some way I could set up a shortcut on the typing keyboard that changes what instrument the controller is controlling at that point, for example, I want to change the lead keyboard from Lead 1 to Lead 2 so I press a on the keyboard.
Rellik Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 In answer to your question, NoWave: probably. I have no idea. I do know that there are better solutions for live performance than FL, but if you're limited to FL, you could try looking it up in the FL forum if somebody here doesn't know. Th1rdeye, just put the soundfont somewhere in the browser, and drag it onto the channel list with all the other synths/samples/soundfonts. As for my own question: rendering each pattern separately. Normally, this could be done manually fairly easily, but several things complicate it for this case. The main thing being that FL is so bogged down I can barely do anything... which is the reason I want to render each pattern separately anyway, so I can import the heavy CPU patterns as samples. I can render each mixer track separately, but not only does that record a full song-length for each track, and is just completely different from rendering from each pattern, but it also doesn't adjust by the Master volume. Maybe it's a bad habit, but it's lowered significantly to reduce clipping, I mean, who cares if you have to turn it up, clipping is bad. So, when I render the mixer tracks, they come out all clipped up, since they didn't go through the Master track. Is there any easy way to render to individual tracks? A macro or something, maybe? I've never made one before; could they do this? Or is there some other way that's worth while? Thanks.
Xelebes Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 I'm trying to play live using soft synths through fruity loops. I've got everything configured and eqed up the way I want it. Now I've got two questions.Firstly. In fruity loops would I be able to assign two separate MIDI controllers to two different parameters, say one keyboard for leads and noise machine and the other for pads. strings and choirs? Secondly is there some way I could set up a shortcut on the typing keyboard that changes what instrument the controller is controlling at that point, for example, I want to change the lead keyboard from Lead 1 to Lead 2 so I press a on the keyboard. I've heard the best software to do live things with is Ableton's Live. Don't ask me as I have not tried it, but I do hear it is quite better to do what you want to do. AS to have two midi controllers going at once, unless you have the USB 2x2 (which I think can recieve two USB/MIDI sources) there is no way. As for the shortcuts, unlike ReBirth which I know you can control the patterns by the QWERTY keyboard, the best bet is to try and use a tertiary midi device to control this.
Rellik Posted November 27, 2003 Posted November 27, 2003 Well... it ended up that I was able to finally tame it. I just had to wait an hour while it tried to process the "Save As..." command so I could begin the process of exporting everything as audio and then importing it back again.
Chique Geek Posted November 30, 2003 Posted November 30, 2003 I have a question about FL Studio. I had FL 3.56 but I upgraded to FL Studio. When I load a sample into a channel or enter new notes on piano roll, I notice there is a delay. In FL 3.56 there was no delay. Is there any way to get rid of this delay? Or is it some sort of bug?
djcubez Posted December 1, 2003 Posted December 1, 2003 Congrats to this thread for being alive for 13 months. Sat Oct 05, 2002 4:13 am
Synth Posted December 3, 2003 Posted December 3, 2003 I just download the fruity loops 4 demo. When i opened up a song i couldent hear anything. So i went to the help and it said for audio select a directsound driver that has DS on the ending or one that has AS. None of my options have those all i have is primary sound driver and sound blaster PCI 16 bit or something like that. And midi dosent work eather. HOw do i fix this?
Xelebes Posted December 4, 2003 Posted December 4, 2003 Is there any easy way to render to individual tracks? A macro or something, maybe? I've never made one before; could they do this? Or is there some other way that's worth while? Thanks. Try Tape it
shadow Posted December 4, 2003 Posted December 4, 2003 Except FL has that exact feature already. http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-recording1.png http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-recording2.png http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-recording3.png http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-recording4.png As always, information was found here.
Rellik Posted December 4, 2003 Posted December 4, 2003 But both of those are for Mixer tracks; you could put Tape It on the Master and then play it, though. Oh, yeah, and is there anyway to save a series of Effects in the Mixer? Like, GreenMachine -> Compressor -> Reverb -> Blue Box, complete with settings for those Effects?
shadow Posted December 4, 2003 Posted December 4, 2003 Mixer Menu: File: Save mixer track state as... Edit: And Master is a mixer track as well. It also has a record button.
Da Grizzly Bear Posted December 5, 2003 Posted December 5, 2003 sry if this is already posted but how come when i open up a MIDI file in FL 4, the channels have stuff in them but i cant hear anything when i play them...? can anyone help me with this problem ??
Da Grizzly Bear Posted December 5, 2003 Posted December 5, 2003 sry if this is already posted but how come when i open up a MIDI file in FL 4, the channels have stuff in them but i cant hear anything when i play them...? can anyone help me with this problem ??
shadow Posted December 5, 2003 Posted December 5, 2003 Method One: http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-midirouting1.png Method Two: http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-midirouting2.png http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-midirouting3.png http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-midirouting4.png Where you should've gone: http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-midirouting5.png http://dackz.net/images/misc/fl-midirouting6.png If you don't like doing any of that, replace the MIDI channels with somethinge else.
Da Grizzly Bear Posted December 5, 2003 Posted December 5, 2003 thanks alot!!! sry for not checking the help file (or whatever its called) first. thanks again!
Da Grizzly Bear Posted December 6, 2003 Posted December 6, 2003 one more quick question pls, how can i export MIDI out into an MP3 and have it still make sounds???
Da Grizzly Bear Posted December 6, 2003 Posted December 6, 2003 someone gunna answer me?? i cant find the help file!!!
lazygecko Posted December 6, 2003 Posted December 6, 2003 That's impossible in Fruity Loops, since it's just MIDI signals sent to your sound card which plays the signals using either a soundfont or a GM wavetable.
Da Grizzly Bear Posted December 6, 2003 Posted December 6, 2003 ic....... i dont speak that language =( whatever, i guess it means i cant do it
shadow Posted December 6, 2003 Posted December 6, 2003 That's impossible in Fruity Loops, since it's just MIDI signals sent to your sound card which plays the signals using either a soundfont or a GM wavetable. You can render with the Fruity LSD or record the output of your soundcard's MIDI synthesizer.
Rellik Posted December 6, 2003 Posted December 6, 2003 I've always wondered what the Fruity LSD was. It has a fun name.
DJ Reiko Posted December 6, 2003 Posted December 6, 2003 er....since theres like 60 pages i can't really read thru it all, and yeah, it got UBER big, anywho, im completely NEW to fruity loops, could anyone point me in the direction to learn it? thnx
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