Chaotic Descent Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 I've picked up FL Studio two or three times, among other music-making programs... I don't learn easily, especially from non-interactive material. (IE: internet, books. I don't consider search engines to be the same level of interaction as communicating with a human. it's grossly inadequate, especially if questions pop up a lot) I'm also easily discouraged. is there a way to plug a MIDI into a SoundFont? I know last time I tried FL I got a WAVE file to play at 78.4 BPM at the same time as another WAVE file at 86.6 BPM. now I can't find any such simple settings directly connected to the WAVE files. "57 Channels and nothing's on". tons of information, and no way to make sense of what's actually important. I have a headache. too much stumulus and/or stress gives me a headache. I think that's the problem with these new programs... they have to include all the features you would need, but not everyone will use all of them, so there's superfluous stuff there that just distracts you from the job. you're not SUPPOSED to learn it all inside-out, but they still treat the information on it that way. I wonder how much I could actually get out of trying to transpose a song into a ... whatever. you know, figure out the notes. I don't know what's the best way to be familiar with notes and such. oh god! why can't I find any documentation on this?! I can't open multiple channels in the piano roll, and I can't open multiple piano roll windows. how am I supposed to compare two channels?? god! nothing works! I turn the volume of a channel down and it still plays! nothing I do works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermadness Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 main question, im a beginner at this and ive downlaoded FL studio 5 and just looking at it confuses me. i have no idea what to do apart from just checking out the sounds. how do i start recording and getting used to the tools used? advice much needed thanxs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compyfox Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 What about reading the manual first. But I'm pretty sure that's not included in warez. Like I said in another thread: FL5 is discontinued and talking about warez isn't allowed here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k u n g f u c h i c k e n Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 main question, im a beginner at this and ive downlaoded FL studio 5 and just looking at it confuses me. i have no idea what to do apart from just checking out the sounds.how do i start recording and getting used to the tools used? advice much needed thanxs NEVER EVER EVER EVER admit to the entire forum that you downloaded a program instead of purchased it. You will be looked down upon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermadness Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 ohhhh, sorry. thanxs for the tip! if anyone has msn that could help me out, would be much appreciated. PM me if you feel generous enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 NEVER EVER EVER EVER admit to the entire forum that you downloaded a program instead of purchased it. You will be looked down upon. wintermadness *purchased the downloadable version* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icy Guy Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I asked a few pages back about a problem I was having with FL. Everything was coming out distorted when I put 4 or 5 instruments together. I mentioned that I had only 256 mb RAM at the time, and somebody said that that wasn't enough. Now I have my laptop, and I have 1 gb of RAM and the same problem... everything distorted. If you want, I can host the file... _glitch_ Maybe you need to increase your buffer length. Hit F10, and then go to Audio. Move the buffer length slider to the right a bit, and then play your song. If it still sounds screwy, move it to the right a bit more. You probably won't have to move it past the 100ms mark. Also, make sure the device you chose under the Output section (also on the Audio page) doesn't have "(emulated)" in the name. That can also make your audio sound yucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adfsghjn Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 My question is also about Sony Acid. So I made a pretty nice beat in FL and saved it as an mp3 and imported it to ACID. Now when I played it against the rest of the track I had in acid, it would not sync right. There would be a gap at the end of the loop mp3 that throws everything off, and it also doesn't play at the same tempo I originally had it in FL. The drum loop was set to a tempo of 75, as is the track in ACId. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavous Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 My question is also about Sony Acid.So I made a pretty nice beat in FL and saved it as an mp3 and imported it to ACID. Now when I played it against the rest of the track I had in acid, it would not sync right. There would be a gap at the end of the loop mp3 that throws everything off, and it also doesn't play at the same tempo I originally had it in FL. The drum loop was set to a tempo of 75, as is the track in ACId. Anyone have any ideas? When you go to export to mp3, check what setting the "remainder box" has on it. If you have "Leave remainder", there will be a gap. If you have "Wrap remainder", there will be a gap. Set it to "Cut remainder" and see how that turns out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adfsghjn Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Thank you, that solved my problem perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridchambers Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 How do u import a MIDI file into FL Studios, Because everytime I've done that i got no sound to come through at all. (I need help!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 1. File>Import 2. Options>Enable MIDI output Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonectric Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 If I wanted to put a sound effect from a game into a remix using the FL trial, how would I go about doing it? I have the sound I want, and it's in .wav format. Can I do anything with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 You can load it with the sampler. Just make a new Sampler via "Channels>Add" and under the channel settings, find the folder icon and look for it through windows. The alternative is to put it in your FL\Data\Patches directory, so you can load it via the sample browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonectric Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Awesome, thanks. I got it to work. Thank goodness I don't have to convert it or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splunkle Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Hello there!I'd like to know if there's any way I can directly feed the sound coming into my computer to the FL Mixer/FX Processor? I have 3 synthesizers, which are somewhat limited in effects. The plug-ins I have with FL are much better. However, I need to know if the final "mix" will sound good before I record synth sequences... and with all the FX plug-ins I might use, the possibilities are endless. So I'm wondering if I can just feed the sound directly to a mixer track (with activated effects), thus immediatly having an idea of the sound I'm going to have in the end. If that's not directly possible or implemented, is there a generator plug-in that can achieve that by directly taking the microphone input and giving it to FL? Thank you for your help guys! This question was unanswered way back on page 154 or something. Anyways, here is an answer: Down the bottom of the mixer, you will have 2 drop down boxes; one labeled in, another labeled out. Anyways, select the FX track you want the sound to go to, grab the in box, and set that to "microphone" or "line in" or somesuch. You may need ASIO drivers to do this, but I think its possible with DX drivers. Also not sure how bad latency is going to be. Good luck anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBCyBeR Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Thanks there Splunkle; unfortunately I don't have anything in my "IN" dropdown menu. I am gonna do some research on ASIO drivers. I don't know if I'll find anything for my SB Live Platinum. Also, I don't know which DX drivers would let me do that. Still, thanks your your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBCyBeR Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Hey, I just got something called ASIO4ALL and I was able to route my input into FL. Thanks man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonectric Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 This may sound stupid, but how do I get notes to sort of blend into each other? Like, you have one note, and it kind of slides smoothly into another note... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Portamento? That does a bunch of pitch sliding though, but is that what you're thinking of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonectric Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 It sounds like what I'm thinking of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realpolitik Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 You're probably thinking of monophony. When more than one note is played at the same time in monophonic mode, it'll slide up and sound nice. Portamento is like a lighter version of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverCoat Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 No, you can have portamento on polyphonic synths/samples, it just sounds funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realpolitik Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 I've done that before, and it doesn't really sound different, not with FL's bundled synths anyway. maybe it's just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonectric Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Well, how do you do either one of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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