FL Manual 1 Settings/Channel Rack Flashcards
If you want to have multiple plugin windows open together, how can you do this from the channel rack?
- ALT+Left click on the plugin in the channel rack.
- -NOTE: Options > General settings > Auto select linked modules must be ON.
What is Fruity Soft Clipper?
- A CPU friendly soft limiter.
- -Soft limiting avoids clipping by applying gentle(soft knee) compression to the input signal
- –Soft knee compression will cause ‘saturation’ effects when the signal level exceeds the threshold level.
What does Fruity Soft Clipper XY axis show?
- Input is horizontal Axis
- -Output is Vertical Axis.
- -Flat diagonal line is 1:1 input to output.
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What do the THRES and POST knobs do?
- THRES - The volume threshold above which Soft Clipper will compress the audio signal.
- -POST - Volume level applied after the compression.
What is Fruity Limiter? Useful for?
- A Single band Compresor with sidechain, Limiter, and Gate
- -Useful for maximizing and limiting compelte mixes, compressing and limiting individual sounds, or basic noise gating.
What is the Signal Flow of Fruity Limiter? What is the Signal Flow of Fruity Limiter?
-Input>COMP>GAIN>LIMITER+GATE>SATURATION>OUTPUT
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How to use the Compressor or Limiter portion by itself?
- Turn the Limiter CEIL or Compressor THRESH to their maximum value.
- -In the case of the Limiter also set ATT to 0.
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How do you modify the velocity curve of your MIDI input device?
- F10 MIDI settings
- -Link note on velocity and click the XY button
- –Link release velocity and click the XY button
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If you want to use a single input and output from two devices, then select _____________ and choose separate Input and Outputs.
If you want to use simultaneous inputs or outputs from several devices, select __________, open the Driver and Activate multiple inputs/outputs across devices.
- FL Studio ASIO
- -ASIO4ALL
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What is a good buffer time target setting with ASIO Drivers?
10 to 20 ms (440 to 880 samples).
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What is linear interpolation?
- Basic linear averaging between samples.
- -Low CPU Load
- –This is likely to result in ‘aliasing’ (high-frequency noises) when Sampler Channels / Audio Clips are transposed far from their original pitch.
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What is 64, 128, 256, 512-point sinc interpolation?
- 24-point sinc is the default.
- -Higher numbers increasingly provide the highest quality interpolation. —NOTE: Normally you should not use 128-point sinc and higher for realtime playback.
- —It will consume large amounts of CPU when samples are transposed.
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General Settings - GUI Input
What do Click-and-Hold Special gesture functions option do?
- Copy note: Hold a note to copy it.
- -Cycle slide/porta: Click and hold when adding a note to cycle through slide & porta event modes.
- –Glue notes: Place the cursor between 2 neighbor notes, so the resize cursor appears, then click and hold to glue them.
- —Snap note sides: Snap either side of a note to the grid.
- —-Cycle tools: Right-Click a tool and use the mouse wheel to select other tools.
- —–Mouse wheel velocity: Use mouse wheel while holding notes to change velocity.
- ——Mouse wheel tools: Change tools by holding right click and rolling the wheel.
- ——-Other functions: Middle mouse click (zoom out full).
The User data folder is the default save location for all user files when using FL Studio (Audio recordings, Projects, Plugin database/favorites etc). If you need to migrate FL Studio to another computer, after installing FL Studio, simply copy the Image-Line folder across. Similarly, backing up this folder will ensure all your projects and project related files are safe.
Finding save locations - If you are using a native plugin or component that can save presets, the quickest way to learn where they are saved is to save a preset and note what folder is used. Then you can manually locate it if you want to move additional presets or data there. For example, when you purchase new content.
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Settings>Info, What is this useful for?
- Data put in here will be metadata in rendered audio files, can be useful for establishing copyright or whatever else.
- -To view this information after rendering
- –Windows - Open Windows Explorer, right-mouse click on the file and select Properties > Details.
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Options>Project
What is included/ not included in the project data folder?
- The data types saved include the project file (.flp/.zip), audio to disk recordings and dragged sample data (drag and drop edits from Edison, Slicex & Channel samplers).
- -Any samples you add to the project from the Browser or other locations will remain where they are, use the .zip format project save to include them in this folder.
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What will adjusting the PPQ to a lower setting mid-project do?
-It will alter the placement of notes and clips if these events fall between the new PPQ grid.
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Settings>Project>Advanced
What is the difference between the Circular and Triangular panning law setting?
- Circular panning maintains a constant apparent volume by progressively lowering the combined volume of the L+R channels by -3dB as the pan passes dead center.
- -Triangular panning does not apply this compensation, so the apparent loudness will increase as the sound passes the center position.
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How do you lock/unlock toolbar panels?
-SHIFT+F11
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How do you Hide/Show the main Toolbar and it’s panels?
-CTRL+F11
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Hotkey for exporting:
Wave File
mp3 File
MIDI FIle
- CTRL+R
- -SHIFT+CTRL+R
- –SHIFT+CTRL+M
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How do you bring up the Plugin Performance Monitor, and why?
- VIEW menu, plugin performance monitor
- -Use this tool to find the plugins in your project using the most CPU, as you determine the cause of underruns.
- –The values shown are processing time in microseconds or µs (1/1,000,000 of a second). When the value exceeds 100,000 µs (0.1 seconds), then it will show in seconds.
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Hotkey for ‘Panic’ cutting all sound that is playing?
CTRL+H
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SHIFT+LEFT CLICK on a track header in playlist does what?
-Opens the rename window for that track
How do the length of your kick and your bass generally interact?
- The longer the bass, the shorter the kick
- -The shorter the bass, the longer the kick can be.
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Right-clicking the PAT/SONG button does what?
-Toggles the playlist window
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How to toggle remember seek time option in playlist?
-Right click the Stop button, the square.
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- How to quickly link multiple parameters to an internal controller?
- How to quickly create multiple automation clips?
CTRL+J, Tweak the list of parameters you want to link, CTRL+J again
- Select the internal controller. An automation clip for example.
- Right-click the multilink to controller on the toolbar and select create automation clips.
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In the file browser, when selecting “Open in new ____”, how do get skip the channel popping up once it’s added?
-Hold down ALT while doing so.
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In channel rack, how to open a new plugin window without closing the previous?
-ALT Click
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In channel rack, how to quickly clone the selected instrument?
-ALT+C
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In channel rack, how to delete all selected instruments/channels?
ALT+DEL
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How can you make swing more interesting?
- Automation clipping the channel rack swing to modify swing over time.
- -OR Using other automation methods for swing
- –OR Modifying swing mix on different instruments
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Once instruments are in different groups in channel rack, how can you cycle through the groups?
-PG UP, PG DN
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How to add an instrument to a created OR new group in channel rack?
-Select it, ALT+G, type in the same/different channel name
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In the case of the Step-sequencer, swing affects what?
- The length of odd vs even steps (every second step).
- -If 4 beats per bar are set, ‘swing’ holds odd 16th notes (1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15) at the expense of even 16th notes (2,4,6,8,10,12 and 16) in the bar.
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How to change a single instrument/audio samples swing multiplier?
How to change multiple instrument/audio samples swing multiplier?
- In wrapper, wrench, Time section, Swing knob
- -Channel rack top left options menu, “Set swing mix for selected”
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What is, and how to open Graph Editor from channel rack?
- CTRL+K
- -It’s used to adjust per-step Note, Velocity, Release, Fine Pitch, Mod X, Mod Y, and Shift.
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How do different modifier keys and right-clicking work in Graph Editor?
- SHIFT Left click will only modify one at a time.
- -CTRL-Left click will keep all values the same
- –ALT Left click will reset to blank value any points you drag over.
- —Right-Clicking and dragging between two points will smoothly interpolate between them.