Carrying on from Part 1, Hollin Jones continues to show you how to get FL Studio setup for MIDI in our latest FL Studio Tutorial
7: Next to the Keyboard Editor button is a Graph Editor button. Press this to reveal a window that lets you control the CCs for any of the notes in your pattern. Use the mouse to drag up or down to make individual notes louder or quieter using the pencil tool. Drag the Pattern window to make it longer if necessary.
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8: In The slider at the base of the Graph window can be moved to reveal other CC parameters including Pan, Release, Mod and Shift. Use the pencil tool to draw in controller data for any of these and make your part more dynamic and interesting rather than just a straightforward set of notes. Draw in a zero value to delete data.
9: As an alternative you might well want to use a MIDI keyboard to input MIDI note data. With your device set up, right click on the Record button and make sure that you are set to send data to the Piano Roll, by ensuring Record to Step Sequencer is off. Then play some notes and record them, perhaps with a countdown.
10: We’ll look in a future workshop at the many MIDI editing tools, but there’s more you can do with recording and programming in the Piano Roll editor. For example if you go to the Options menu and the the Chord section, you can draw in any of a number of complex chords just by clicking with the mouse : great for sounding like a pro player.
11: Another way to create music is to play or draw in some simple notes and then apply MIDI processing to them. Try this by inputting some notes into the Piano Roll editor and then from the Options menu choosing Tools > Arpeggiate or pressing Alt & A. You will see an arpeggiator window plus some controls.
12: Use the arpeggiator control window to load a preset and then tweak it. You can dial in different kinds of settings to make simple parts more complex while keeping them in time. You might not think of this as recording MIDI, but it is in the sense that you are creating notes out of nowhere and using them in a pattern.
13: You can try the same trick with other tools from the Tools menu. Try for example selecting some notes by dragging around them and then choosing the Flam, Strum or Claw tools. Each one introduces some tweakable new pattern into the proceedings and helps you to generate new parts with minimum effort.
14: Another option is to quickly enter MIDI notes using your computer’s keyboard. This can be done by going to the Options menu and checking that Typing Keyboard to Piano is switched on, or pressing Alt & T. Now you will find that your keys trigger notes in a chromatic fashion, which is handy for monophonic parts and beats.
15: If you return to the Step Sequencer window you can tight click on any sound source and choose to fill the sequence with every 2, 4 or 8 steps. This is a quick way of creating beats, and data can be shifted around or randomized once it’s inside the sequencer to quickly alter your beats, melodies or riffs.
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In the second part of our ‘Become a Power User of FL Studio’ series we reveal how getting MIDI into FL is much more flexible than simply pressing a keyboard, as Hollin Jones reveals in our latest FL Studio Tutorial
FL Studio is at its heart a great MIDI recording and sequencing application. Even though it also records audio, for much of its life it concentrated on MIDI and this is still the thing for which many people love it the most. Partly this is down to the fact that it comes with such an amazing selection of MIDI-triggered instruments, and has a range of tools for programming and inputting data. It helps to be a great player of course but it’s far from essential with FL Studio’s step input mode and arpeggiator amongst many other clever ways to input notes.
The great thing about basing a lot of your composition on MIDI tracks is that they are almost endlessy flexible, with none of the limitations of digital audio files. MIDI can be copied, pasted, altered, manipulated and re-routed easily. It’s weightless too, meaning that MIDI data uses virtually no space and no CPU power. In fact the only thing that uses resources is whatever yous end the MIDI to in order to make sound, typically a software instrument.
You can use MIDI tracks to trigger external hardware too of course, and route the audio signal from synths, drum machines and other MIDI hardware back into FL Studio for recording. This lets you incorporate older, more traditional hardware that might be fiddly to program into the much more user-friendly world of FL Studio where putting together complex parts is much easier than it ever was using outboard kit.
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In terms of getting MIDI in you can use your computer’s keyboard, a regular MIDI keyboard or a more specialised MIDI control surface. FL Studio supports the connection of multiple devices, though to avoid conflicts it can be a good idea to assign each one a unique MIDI channel to work on. In fact there are a number of controller templates in the FL Studio installation directory (Program FilesImage-LineFL StudioSystemHardware specific). These templates are loaded into the editor that came with your controller and will map it to FL Studio. So hook up your MIDI device and get recording parts right now!
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There’s a handy tool in FL Studio for generating MIDI parts called Riff Machine. Choose Tools > Riff Machine and a new window opens. Web sekolah yang menggunkan wordpress. With it, you can create randomized patterns for whatever generator or instrument you currently have selected. There are multiple options including chords, progressions, arpeggios, flips, humanization and interpretation. Each one has a set of tweakable controls and can be previewed. If you’re happy with the results, accept them, or start over to do something entirely new.
This is a great way to create complex and involving MIDI parts from only the most basic of input. It helps you to create music from nowhere, or to take the music you have already made and alter it easily.
Step by Step
1: With your MIDI interface or device connected, go into FL Studio’s MIDI Settings section and make sure it is visible and selected. If you click on the Controller Type menu you will be able to assign it directly if it’s a device that has a template supplied. Otherwise, just choose Generic Controller from this menu.
2: Set the MIDI channel of the device in the Port box by clicking and holding then dragging the mouse up or down. It’s also possible to set dedicated MIDI channels to control things like onmi preview, song marker jump, performance mode and generator mute in this window, if you have additional controllers connected for these purposes.
3: In the main window, go to the Transport panel and right click on the Record button to access the recording filter. Make sure that Score is selected so that notes will be captured. By default, recordings will go into the Piano Roll editor for a track. Here you can change this to send notes to the Step Sequencer if you like.
4: The simplest way of inputting MIDI doesn’t actually involve an input device at all, just the mouse. Go to the Step Sequencer and set the length of the pattern using the box at the top left, check the master tempo of the project and edit if necessary. Then click the buttons in each channel to trigger a note at a specific point.
5: That’s fine for beats but for anything melodic you will need to be a little more creative. Try creating a bass instrument for example and it will appear in the Step Sequencer window. Select it and then click on the Keyboard Editor button at the top right hand corner of the Pattern window. This then allows you to use the mouse to enter multiple chromatic notes easily.
6: This editor has a few more tricks up its sleeve, such as tiny portamento switches at the top of each note lane, denoted by triangles. You can also apply swing to the whole pattern using the tiny variable slider at the top of the window, and activate looping for the pattern with the loop button by the length box.
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Hello..
I have Fruity Loops 6, and i usually make all my beats on my COMPUTER keyboard, but i finally went out and got me a MIDI compatible keyboard with a MIDI to USB cable also..
I have a CASIO CTK-574.. Along with Stanton DJ Pro 3000 headset.
Anyway, i have went through so much pain trying to connect this damn thing and it just wont recieve the connection! My computer found the connection and it said 'New USB Device Installed and Ready To Use.' but i just cant get a MIDI connection in Fruity Loops..
The MIDI Keyboard has the button (Transpose/Tune/Midi) option, and i select all these things and put them on CHANNEL 1.. I dont know what to do.. Things just aint working out!!!! Do I have to have IN and OUT jack plugged up? Or just one of them to connect to the USB device in the pc? AHHH!
Thanks in advance
I have Fruity Loops 6, and i usually make all my beats on my COMPUTER keyboard, but i finally went out and got me a MIDI compatible keyboard with a MIDI to USB cable also..
I have a CASIO CTK-574.. Along with Stanton DJ Pro 3000 headset.
Anyway, i have went through so much pain trying to connect this damn thing and it just wont recieve the connection! My computer found the connection and it said 'New USB Device Installed and Ready To Use.' but i just cant get a MIDI connection in Fruity Loops..
The MIDI Keyboard has the button (Transpose/Tune/Midi) option, and i select all these things and put them on CHANNEL 1.. I dont know what to do.. Things just aint working out!!!! Do I have to have IN and OUT jack plugged up? Or just one of them to connect to the USB device in the pc? AHHH!
Thanks in advance
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Video Resources
- M-Audio Oxygen 49 – This is such a perfect MIDI Keyboard for those starting up. It provides all the transport buttons (play, stop, record, etc.), as well as the pitch + mod wheel, and even the knobs and sliders if you want to get that hands-on feeling.
- My Recommended MIDI Keyboards – Read my article on the best MIDI Keyboard for music production and FL Studio.
- What is a MIDI Keyboard? – Read my article on what a MIDI Keyboard actually is. It’s confusing at first because the actual hardware contains no sounds itself. You use the sounds on your computer, and the MIDI Keyboard is a controller for your DAW.
Welcome to the next video in this FL Studio Beginner’s Series where we cover how to install a MIDI Keyboard in FL Studio.
What We Cover:
- What to look for in a MIDI Keyboard ?
- How to install drivers for a MIDI Keyboard
- My personal experience to purchase a MIDI Keyboard
- Talked a bit about a motorized control surface. (Cool, but kinda pointless depending on your DAW.)
It’s honestly a pretty simple procedure, but that’s only because I’ve done it tons of times! ??
If you’re looking for an affordable but bang for buck MIDI Keyboard, I currently suggest the M-Audio Oxygen 49:
On the premium side of things, without going into the bells and whistles side, the Akai MPK249 is what I’d suggest.
The most important thing to take away from this video is to first install your drivers before turning on your MIDI Keyboard. How to minimize game windows 10.
It’s the safest route you can take to avoid any issues and get the best performance out of your MIDI Keyboard.
Be sure to check out the video resources for the MIDI Keyboards I’ve recommended.
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