FL Studio user's thread

[Miss Light Diamond 2,803]

So I saw the Ableton users thread and thought I would make one for people who use FL Studio.
Post your songs you made with FL Studio, post tips, post questions...just post stuff.

[DusK 1,264]

My entire discography was made in FL Studio. Very few metal musicians use FL Studio, especially when compared to the sea of EDM composers, so I kind of use myself as an example that FL Studio is by no means solely an EDM DAW. The easy-to-use piano roll, wide selection of VSTs and effects, and upgrades for life were a no-brainer for me.

Edited April 12, 2013 by DusK

[cd_solidsnake 122]

I use FL Studio also :3 even though my music is not that good. Also, I'm focused on the underground genres of EDM like Minimal Techno, Tech-House, Deep House and more.

 

https://soundcloud.com/armida/riva-starr-remix-contest-i-was-drunk-armida-remix-1

 

 

https://soundcloud.com/armida/armida-vs-realitversion-cold

[Espy Vibe 4,568]

Imma bump this. 

1. I accidentally messed up my template and I don't have backups of it (oops), so I'm remaking it with some little changes to prepare for the upcoming FL 25 update (the mixer is getting a big update I think)

2. I discovered you can use Patcher with only instances of Fruity HTML NoteBook to specifically load up certain resources. It's super convenient and you don't need to go back and forth between browsers!

It stays on the screen which is why it's convenient. In the below image, I can load up a reverb plugin to get these specific numbers in since I'm kinda bad at math and don't want to spend time opening up the calculator and doing it (it's not that difficult but it can get tedious).

It can even load offline webpages if you tell it to look at a local file coded in HTML instead of directly on the web.

This isn't my page but it's from one that I stumbled upon and have been using for a bit since it's so clean. Well, it loads in another webpage that isn't as clean so I kinda found the link to just the calculator and yoinked it and boom, it loads automatically.

I might make a local version myself but I would have to dust off my coding skills.

super convenient! Pls trust me 

3. Trying to use sends more but Fruity Send is a bit confusing even though it's explained so simply. I get how it works but when I set it up, it wasn't working like how other people had it.

I'll figure it out though, I'm probably misunderstanding something.

Edited April 9 by Espy Vibe

[Espy Vibe 4,568]

Workin on a patcher preset that takes advantage of some free Airwindows plugins. This is basically how I process my drums but in one plugin (but minus the glue compression at the end).

 

It's a reference to the Mackie 1202 mixer which was quite popular in 90s/00s Drum and Bass/Jungle circles. But mine is not 100% faithfully copying it. I just like the overall vibe of that time period. 

Under Flavor, "Clipper/Exciter Amt." handles the clipping by ZOutputStage, which is basically a clipper. That gets tossed into Mackity, which is Airwindows' version of the Mackie 1202 mixer (and is what inspired my drum processing chain to begin with) and it's controlled by the "Intensity" dial.

Tone is just handled by FL's stock transient designer. The attack will either strengthen or reduce the immediate transient while the release I found to expand the energy of some percussion if turned to the right, or tightens up the groove if turned to the left.

EQ is self explanatory. Mids is a fairly gentle bell curve at around 630 Hz while Treble is a fairly gentle high shelf curve at 8700 Hz. The default position is at 12'o'clock which is flat/no frequency adjustments.

I should say that all of them are minimally unaffected at 12'o'clock. That's more or less where I have my personal chain running at.

Oh, and there's a button for a 6 dB gain reduction before the signal gets processed if the signal is coming in too hot. There's also a safety clipper after that acts as a way to protect from hearing damage as much as possible. It uses Airwindows ClipOnly2! Technically I could do it with FL's Waveshaper or putting a stock soft clipper or something else, but I think ClipOnly2 does it the best. But anyways, it can be bypassed if desired since maybe someone has their own clipper they want to use afterwards.

I hope the UI design is okay too. I think it came out quite nicely 

Internally it's nothing too fancy.

I might make some slight changes so I'll post audio examples later.  Ima go nap