FL Manual 2 Wrapper/Automation/Piano Roll Flashcards
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Wrapper Envelope / Instrument, Filter Section
SVF LP - S, SVF LPx2
- State Variable Filter Low Pass
- -State Variable Filter Low Pass, steep cutoff.
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Wrapper Miscellaneous
Mono mode overrides the ‘Max poly’ option. This is important because both act differently. How so?
- Max poly - Causes a forced ‘release’ of oldest notes over the poly limit. Notes stop playing immediately.
- -Mono mode - Triggers the current release state of notes, so there can be some overlap.
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Wrapper Miscellaneous, Time,
Gate
- The time interval set with this knob defines the maximum possible length of a note event in the channel
- -Look in the hint bar to see the length you set in STEPS:TICKS format.
- –To disable the gate effect turn the knob fully clockwise.
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Wrapper Miscellaneous, Time,
Shift Knob
-Turn this knob to right to delay notes’ triggering with up to 16-th note time period (one step)
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Wrapper Miscellaneous, Time,
Swing Knob
- The Swing Mix is a multiplier knob for the Channel Rack swing control.
- -This allows you to independently apply varying amounts of swing to channels.
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Wrapper Miscellaneous, VOL/KEY TRACKING
Middle value (Mid)
- For both trackers there is a middle value where no offsets are generated.
- -Higher values generate positive offsets and lower values generate negative ones.
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Wrapper Miscellaneous
VOL/KEY TRACKING allows you to do what?
- The keyboard tracker “links” the note number (i.e. note pitch) to the cutoff, resonance and panning properties of notes.
- -The velocity tracker works in the same way, using a note’s velocity to modulate target controls.
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Wrapper Miscellaneous, Cut Groups,
Of two channels, one has an open hi-hat sample and another a closed hi-hat sample. You want the closed hi-hat sound to stop (cut) the open sound, so that it sounds as if the hi-hat has slammed shut (open to closed hat sound).
How?
- Set the closed hi-hat Cut group to 1 and leave the Cut By group at the default “–” .
- -Set the open hi-hat sound Cut by group to 1 and leave the Cut group to the default “–”.
- –NOTE: You can use Piano roll activity from one Channel to cut note activity in another using the Cut/Cut by feature.
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Copy/Paste state
-Copy and paste Automation Clip data between Automation Clips.
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Flip vertically
-Inverts the current envelope.
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Scale levels
-Opens the Scale Level tool.
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Normalize levels
-Scales the envelope so the highest and/or lowest levels reach +/- 100%.
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Decimate points
-Opens a simple tool that allows manipulation of the number of control points in the envelope (useful in conjunction with Analyze audio file).
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Filter
-Opens the Envelope Filter tool (useful in conjunction with Analyze audio file).
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Smooth up
-Opens the Smooth Up tool that allows smoothing of the envelope shape (useful in conjunction with Analyze audio file).
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Smooth out abrupt changes
-Preset filtering to remove abrupt changes (smoothing).
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Turn all points smooth
-Preset filter to filter the envelope.
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Create sequence
-Opens the Envelope sequencer.
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Automation Clip Options Menu
Analyze audio file…
-Creates an envelope that mirrors the volume amplitude profile of the analyzed sound (you will be prompted to choose an audio file after selecting).
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Automation Clip Settings
Min
- Sets the minimum value of the Automation Clip.
- -This is a scaling factor that re-ranges the output from the Automation Clip.
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Automation Clip Settings
Max
- Sets the maximum value the Automation Clip.
- -This is a scaling factor that re-ranges the output from the Automation Clip.
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Automation Clip Settings
Time
-Controls the speed at which the Automation Clip plays back. –The number window after the Time knob is a multiplier setting.
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Automation Clip Settings
LFO Switch
- Enables and shows a preview of the LFO and its amplitude envelope inside clips placed on the Playlist tracks.
- -NOTE: Selecting the LFO function doesn’t erase the ‘main’ automation envelope (although not visible). It remains available to be combined with the LFO when the Multiply switch (see below) is selected.
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Automation Clip Settings
Speed (SPD)
-Sets the speed of the LFO.
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Automation Clip Settings
Tension (TENS)
-Sets the LFO shape ‘tension’, a shape morph for tuning the exact LFO shape - starting with square (pulse), sine, triangle and ‘pulse’.
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Automation Clip Settings
Shape Skew (AK)
-Skews the LFO shape. Together with triangle shape, the skew can be used to create saw and reversed saw LFO shapes.
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Automation Clip Settings
Pulse Width (NW)
-Sets the width of the LFO shape.
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Automation Clip Settings
AMT
-Sets the LFO amplitude (strength). Set it to the middle position to reset level to 0 and effectively disable the LFO. Turn it left for negative amplitude (inverted values) or right for positive amplitude.
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Automation Clip Settings
Multiply
- Allows you to combine the LFO values with the ‘main’ spline envelope of the Automation Clip.
- -When the switch is enabled the two values will be multiplied, i.e. the LFO acts as an amplitude modulator for the envelope. —This is useful for unipolar (one directional) properties such as cutoff frequency, volume, etc. When the switch is disabled both values are added together, i.e. like an LFO ‘offsetting’ the envelope. This is useful for bipolar parameters such as panning.
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What does a layer channel do?
-The Layer Channel does not make sound, it passes note data from its Piano roll and controller input to any linked Channels (child channels)
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You can use a Layer Channel to create multi-sampled instruments, How?
- By assigning unique keyboard regions to each child.
- -Left-click and drag on the keyboard to define the key region. Once created, edit the region limits by dragging the end points.
- –You can include an Envelope Controller as one of the children and use it to automate the crossfade control. Here imagination is key, think horizontal (keyboard) and vertical (velocity, modulation, etc.) layering.
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How can you use Layer Channels and Children to modulate and create variety?
-Random ON: A single, random, Channel in the Layer will play.
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How can you use Layer Channels and Children to create more interesting Layered Sounds?
- Random ON: A single, random, Channel in the Layer will play.
- -And when you play chords, it will play a selection of SOME of the layers but not all.
- -ALSO, you can set Non Random, but Crossfade and automation clip the crossfade.
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How does Layer Channel Children Crossfading ON work?
- The Fade knob (below) will crossfade between two or more Channels in the Layer.
- -If, for example, you have 3 Layer Channels turning the Fade knob from left to right will sound: Child1 > Child1+Child2 > Child2 > Child2+Child3 > Child3.
- –Channels are faded from top (knob left) to bottom (knob right) in the Channel Rack.
- —NOTE: Crossfading only works with FL Studio native format plugins, it does not work with VST/AU plugins.
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How can you use Layer Channel Children to make a drum kit?
- Assign multiple children with different drum sounds
- -Layering>Split Children
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Plugin Wrapper Settings
How can you toggle between two different states of a plugin to compare?
-From the options, T to store in spare state and F to flip between them.
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Plugin Wrapper
How to see a list of all automatable parameters?
-Top left option drop down, Browse Parameters.
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Some 3rd party plugins may perform worse with multi-threading on. If you are experiencing choppy or broken sound, try turning this off.
How?
- Wrapper window, top left settings drop-down,
- -Uncheck Allow Threaded Processing
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VST Wrapper, Processing
What does “Notify about rendering mode” do?
- The plugin is informed when FL Studio is rendering so it can switch to a higher quality output, if possible.
- -This must be selected to achieve HQ rendering from plugins that support different real-time and rendered quality.
- –Try deselecting this option if a plugin is not rendering correctly.
- —NOTE: Native FL Studio plugins respond to the HQ for all plugins render option.
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VST Wrapper, Processing, Connections
Connections - These options determine audio input and/or output routing for the plugin and are necessary only for multi-input or multi-output plugins such as a compressor that accepts side-chain inputs or a sampler with multiple outputs for separate effects processing.