How the sound will reach your ears will also be dependent on whether or not you apply any effects, but more about that later as well. For now, just remember that this is the place where you control the actual sound of the channel in question. This article will not further discuss the Channel Settings dialog. This is an important dialog inwhich you can tweek the sound for each channel.

First of all, if you left-click it the Channel Settings dialog will show. The channel buttons give access to a number of items.

I did not bother with this too much until later when I discovered you can articulate a sound and create a sense of movement in compositions by automating the panning (don’t worry about this last sentence as I will dedicate some other article to ‘automating’ controls in FL Studio). By default, the panning knob is centered and so will the sound for the channel be (not coming from one particular loudspeaker). Turn it to the right and only your right loudspeaker has the honour. If you turn it all the way to the left, the sound will only come from your left loudspeaker. In short, the channel panning controls the spread of the sound across your left and right loudspeakers. The channel panning and volume knobs allow you to control the panning and volume. So what more do we have on this dialog? Let’s have a closer look. Some channels for the beat (DNC_Kick, DNC_Snare, DNC_Hat), one for the bass line (Pure bass 3), for the strings (Smooth str…ings) and a channel for the lead melody (Trance Lead). These are also referred to as the channels.

The Step Sequencer (or Channel) view (press F6 to open it) is the view in which you place your instruments, one below the other. Familiarizing yourself with some basic concepts before actually starting to compose will add to the fun, I assure you.Īnyway, back to the three views – Step Sequencer, Playlist and Piano Roll. Unfortunately, after a while they gave up because they did not get beyond the initial stage, which was to just click around and generate sounds. Some friends of mine started playing with FL Studio after they had heard some of my work – very energetically i should add. Sure, it may be more fun to start with producing sounds, but trust me if you do not know how to arrange your sounds and create compositions, FL Studio will merely turn into a funny sound generator for you. Once you grasp those, you already understand much about how to arrange a song. FL Studio tutorial explaining the Step Sequencer, Playlist and Piano Rollīefore diving deep into the FL Studio UI with its zillion buttons, knobs and menus (don’t get scared), I would like to explain you a bit about three central views in FL Studio.

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