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FL Manual 20 Send/Clip/Sqz/Stereo Flashcards

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send
What is Fruity Send?

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  • The Fruity Send plugin is a pre-fader send that allows you to extract audio from any point in a Mixer channel’s effects stack and send it to any linked Mixer track.
  • -This differs from the post-fader audio send switches/knobs built into the Mixer that take audio from the point after the effects stack and Mixer track fader.
  • –NOTE: FL Studio will refuse to allow Fruity Send on the Master Mixer track or to make sends that would create a feedback loop. You don’t want that, no really you don’t.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls
Dry

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  • Dry (pass through) signal through Fruity Send.
  • -By default Dry is at 0%, so turn this up if you want to hear audio on Fruity Send’s own Mixer track.
  • –If you want to use multiple sends on one Mixer track, then you need to set all Dry knobs to 100% pass-through, and then the last Fruity Send in the stack Dry control can be set to 0% to prevent audio coming from Fruity Sends source Mixer track.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls
Send to

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  • Choose the target Mixer track.
  • -NOTE: You can ONLY send to Mixer tracks that Fruity Send’s own Mixer Track is linked to.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls
Pan

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-Left/Right panning of the sent audio

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls
Volume

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-Level for the sent audio.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls
Making Pre-Fader Send Links, how?

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  • Fruity Send can send only to Mixer tracks linked to its own Mixer track.
  • -Use Sidechain links (Right-Click the send target and select ‘Sidechain to this track’) as this will exclude Fruity Send’s host mixer track, post-fader and complete FX stack audio, passing to the target.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls

  • Link the Fruity Send’s host track to the target track - Right-click the send control on the target track and select ‘Sidechain to this track’
  • -From Fruity send to the destination - Right-click Fruity Send’s ‘Send to’ control and choose the target track sidechained above. Pre-naming destination tracks will avoid confusion.
  • –Do you want audio from Fruity Send’s host Mixer track to be heard? - If yes, turn up Fruity Send’s Dry control to allow audio to pass through the plugin and out to the master.
  • —NOTES: To send to multiple Mixer tracks you will need to use multiple Fruity Send’s. Also consider the purmutations for various send control states (Fruity Send and its own Mixer Track send):
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls

  • Link the Fruity Send’s host track to the target track - Right-click the send control on the target track and select ‘Sidechain to this track’
  • -From Fruity send to the destination - Right-click Fruity Send’s ‘Send to’ control and choose the target track sidechained above. Pre-naming destination tracks will avoid confusion.
  • –Do you want audio from Fruity Send’s host Mixer track to be heard? - If yes, turn up Fruity Send’s Dry control to allow audio to pass through the plugin and out to the master.
  • —NOTES: To send to multiple Mixer tracks you will need to use multiple Fruity Send’s. Also consider the purmutations for various send control states (Fruity Send and its own Mixer Track send):
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls
Fruity Send Dry control

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-Fruity Sends Dry control may be passing or not passing audio to the Mixer track it is loaded on.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls
Mixer Track Send control

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The Mixer Track Send/s to other tracks may be audible or an inaudible ‘Sidechain’ send/s.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Send - Controls
Mixer Track Master Send state

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  • The link from Fruity Send’s own mixer track to the Master may be audible or deselected.
  • -That’s, at least, 6 possible combinations, take a moment to think about exactly what you are trying to achieve.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Soft Clipper
What is Fruity Soft Clipper?

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  • Fruity Soft Clipper is a CPU-friendly soft limiter.
  • -Soft limiting avoids clipping by applying gentle (soft knee) compression to the input signal.
  • –It is worth noting that soft knee compression will cause ‘saturation’ effects when the signal level exceeds the threshold level.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Soft Clipper
The graph on the plugin shows what?

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-Input (horizontal axis) vs output (vertical axis).

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Soft Clipper - Parameters
Threshold (THRES)

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-The volume threshold above which Soft Clipper will compress the audio signal.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Soft Clipper - Parameters
Post Gain (POST)
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-Volume level applied after the compression.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Soft Clipper - Parameters
Output Meter

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-Displays the output volume levels of the plugin.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Soft Clipper - Parameters
Levels display

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  • Displays the compression settings (hold your cursor over the display to see input to output levels mapping in the hint bar).
  • -Drag the cursor in the display to change the compression threshold.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Spectroman
What is Fruity Spectroman?

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  • Spectroman is a spectrum analyser plugin.
  • -Insert Spectroman into the mixer track you wish to produce a a spectrograph or sonograph from.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze
What is Fruity Squeeze?

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  • Fruity Squeeze is a bit-reducing, distortion (called ‘Puncher’ that replaces audio sample data with a fixed, user controlled value) and filtering plugin.
  • -Fruity Squeeze will add a gritty tonal character to input sounds and is particularly effective when applied to drum loops.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Squarize

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  • Reduces the bit-depth of the input sample stream.
  • -This has the effect of making the output wave appear blocky/rectangular and the output to sound gritty.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Puncher Preserve

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  • The number of samples that are left unaffected by the Puncher section.
  • -This can vary between 0 samples (knob fully left) to a 1 second buffer (knob fully right).
  • –The maximum value is determined by the sample rate setting of the Mixer (F10 - Audio Settings).
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Puncher Impact

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  • The number of samples that are forced by the Puncher section to the nominal value.
  • -The Preserve and Impact sample variations are alternated (interleaved) in the output sample stream.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Puncher Relation

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  • Determines the relationship between the number of Impact and Preserve samples.
  • -Possible values are: no relation, equal, double and half.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Puncher Amount

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  • The Puncher section replaces ‘Puncher Impacted’ samples by value between 0% (knob fully left) and 100% (knob fully right) of the maximum amplitude.
  • -Best results are obtained with low settings (0% for example).
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Filter Freq

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-Low pass Filter cutoff frequency.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Filter resonance

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-Low pass Filter resonance.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Pre/Post

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-The filter can be applied before (pre) or after (post) the Squarize and Puncher sections.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Mix

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-Determines the amount of dry (input) and wet (after processing) signals to be sent to the output.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Squeeze - Parameters
Gain

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-Determines the final output volume.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Enhancer
What is Fruity Stereo Enhancer?

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  • Fruity Stereo Enhancer contains various filters and processors to alter and enrich the stereo image of the input sound.
  • -Related plugins are the Fruity Stereo Shaper and the Mixer Track Properties Stereo separation.
  • –Visualize stereo effects with Wavecandy Vectorscope
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Enhancer - Parameters
Stereo Separation knob (STEREO SEP)

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  • The stereo separation filter allows you to enhance or reduce any existing stereo effect in the track.
  • -The middle (default) position is disabled.
  • –Turn the knob right to decrease the stereo separation (sum L+R to mono), turn left to increase stereo separation.
  • —NOTE: This control has no stereo effect on mono sounds as it works by processing the difference between the L and R channels, if there is no difference then there is no stereo to enhance. This is the same effect as the Mixer ‘Stereo separation’ control.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Enhancer - Parameters
Pre/Post switch

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-Lets you choose whether to have the phase offset effect applied before (PRE) or after (POST) the other filters in that plugin.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Enhancer - Parameters
Phase Offset knob

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  • Changes the phase of the L or R channels.
  • -Top dead center is normal phase, turning the knob right will progressively offset the phase of the right channel, while turning the knob to the left will progressively offset the phase of the left channel.
  • –The phase offset is achieved by delaying the affected channel by up to 500 ms.
  • —Settings of 20 to 40 ms usually produce a realistic stereo effect on mono signals.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Enhancer - Parameters
Invert switch

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  • With this filter you can invert the phase in one of the audio channels.
  • -NONE disables the effect, LEFT inverts the left audio channel, RIGHT inverts the right audio channel.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Enhancer - Parameters
Panning knob (PAN)
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  • Sets the panning of the output.
  • -When used with small delays, the phase offset effect can make the sound appear panned to left or right.
  • –You can use this knob to compensate for this effect.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Enhancer - Parameters
Volume knob (VOL)
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  • Sets the final output level.
  • -In some cases the stereo separation control may increase or decrease the output level. Use this control to compensate.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
What is Fruity Stereo Enhancer?

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  • The Stereo Shaper is a multi-purpose stereo shaping tool, it can:
  • -Provide control of individual Left/Right Mixer channels & how they’re inter-mixed.
  • –Affect panning/balance (with or without Left/Right channel inter-mixing)
  • —Phase invert one or both channels.
  • —-Enhance or reduce stereo information present in the input signal.
  • —–Isolate a Left or Right channel and fill both Left/Right Mixer channels with the isolated mono signal.
  • ——Allow effects to be applied only to the stereo signal leaving the center mix unaffected.
  • ——-‘Stereoize’ mono inputs using a L/R delay.
  • Related effects are the Stereo Enhancer and the Mixer Track Properties Stereo separation filter & Phase () switch. You can also visualize your stereo triumphs with Wave Candy Vectorscope.
  • -Presets - As most of the standard uses of the plugin are covered, we recommend using the Fruity Stereo Shaper presets (see the ‘Presets’ section below).
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
How does the Mixer Matrix work?

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  • The sliders control the mixing, level and phase of the Left and Right audio inputs.
  • -The + and - markings to the left of the slider bank indicate that the upper and lower slider positions add (positive phase mix) or subtract (negative phase mix) audio signals.
  • –For example, dragging the left-most slider downward subtracts the Right channel from the left (blending a phase-inverted R channel into the L channel), although the overall result of this action will depend entirely on the positions of the other sliders.
  • —Use the Hint Bar to make precise settings for the sliders.
  • —-NOTE: The left and right pair of sliders sum to create the Left and Right channel outputs of the Stereo Shaper.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Mixer matrix Slider
Right into Left channel volume

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  • The Right-channel into the Left-channel mix, + will be an additive blend, - a phase cancelling mix, that is any common audio information will cancel when the slider reaches the -0dB point.
  • -Leftmost slider
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Mixer matrix Slider
Left channel volume

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  • Normal Left-channel volume slider. To invert the phase move the slider to the -0 dB position.
  • -Second from the left
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Mixer matrix Slider
Right channel volume

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  • Normal Right-channel volume slider. To invert the phase move the slider to the -0 dB position.
  • -Second from the right
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Mixer matrix Slider
Left into Right channel volume

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  • The Left-channel into the Right-channel mix, + will be an additive blend, - a phase cancelling mix, that is any common audio information will fully cancel when the slider reaches the -0dB position.
  • -Rightmost slider
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Mixer matrix Slider
Don’t panic! Breath slowly and deeply, look carefully at the presets and work your way through the settings in a systematic manner, patience will be rewarded by understanding.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Mixer matrix Slider
Don’t panic! Breath slowly and deeply, look carefully at the presets and work your way through the settings in a systematic manner, patience will be rewarded by understanding.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Effects
Pre / Post

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-Determines if the effects are applied, before (pre) or after (post) the stereo-mixer matrix.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Effects
Delay

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  • Turn right to delay the Right channel up to 500 ms, turn Left to delay the Left channel up to 500 ms.
  • -Creates a pseudo-stereo effect on mono signals, try settings between 20
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Effects
Phase

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  • Center frequency of an all-pass filter that can be varied from 10 Hz to 22 kHz.
  • -All-pass filters allow all frequencies equally in level but change the phase relationship between various frequencies.
  • –This is useful to create interesting phaser or pseudo surround-sound or wide-stereo effects.
  • —Top dead center is off, turning the knob right will sweep the center frequency of the Right Channel, while turning the knob to the left will sweep the Left Channel.
  • —-NOTE: Automation of Delay and/or Phase will create useful phaser effects.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
In / Out Difference (Sidechain) Selector

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  • The IN/OUT difference selector sends a ‘difference’ signal to the selected sidechain Mixer track.
  • -That is, the difference between the INPUT to Stereo Shaper and the OUTPUT from Stereo Shaper (Input - Output = Difference).
  • –The control displays (Right-click it) Mixer tracks that the Fruity Stereo Shaper’s own Mixer track is sidechained TO.
  • —You can choose only one track to send the difference signal to.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper - Effects
In / Out difference does what?

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  • This control sends the parts of the signal that were removed by the operation of the Mixer Matrix to a side chained Mixer track. It is important to set up sidechain routing/s so only the ‘Difference’ output is sent to the ‘Difference’ Mixer track, see below:
    1. Set a sidechain track - Select the Fruity Stereo Shaper’s Mixer track and Right-click the send switch on the destination Mixer track. Select the ‘Sidechain to this track’ option from the pop-up menu.
  1. Select a sidechain track - Right-click the ‘In / Out Difference’ control to see the Mixer tracks that the Stereo Shaper’s own Mixer track is routed to. Make sure the destination track is set as a Sidechain (in other words, the send volume is at 0).

Off - When the difference send control is set to ‘–’ the plugin outputs only those parts of the signal that remain after the Mixer Matrix operation.
NOTE: The selector indexes (counts) available send-to tracks, so the numbers are not Mixer track numbers (Right-click the control to see Mixer tracks listed by name). This sidechain output path is important for a number of processes such as ‘MID/SIDE processing’ as discussed in the Tutorial section.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Presets
Generally the Fruity Stereo Shaper should be controlled using what?

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-Presets, all of the typical uses of the plugin are represented.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Effects Presets - Delay

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-Standard L/R stereo delay caused by a 30 ms delay between the L/R channels (R channel delay). Settings between 20-40 ms usually result in the most pleasing stereoizing of a mono sound.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Effects Presets - Old / Old 2 / Phaser

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  • Variations on phase + L/R delay to create stereo/ static-phase effects.
  • -Automate the Phase or Delay controls to add movement in the phase.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Effects Presets -
Shrinked

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-Another pseudo-stereo effect using channel feedback and L/R delay.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Effects Presets -
Stereoize…

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-Various pseudo stereo effects using combinations of inter-channel mixing, phase and L/R delay controls.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets - aMid - Side splitter

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-An ‘adapted’ (see below) Mid signal remains on the host Mixer track and a Side signal is sent to the IN/OUT Difference track.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
aSide

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-An ‘adapted’ Side signal is output on both channels.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
aSide - Mid splitter

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-An ‘adapted’ Side signal remains on the host Mixer track a Mid signal is sent to the IN/OUT Difference track.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
Invert Left

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-Invert the phase of the Left channel.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
Invert Right

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-Invert the phase of the Right channel.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
Left - Right splitter

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-The Left channel remains on the host Mixer track and the Right channel is sent to the IN/OUT Difference track.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
LR to LL

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-The Left channel is selected and fills both L and R outputs.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
LR to MS

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  • Converts a stereo input to M/S Joint stereo signal.
  • -That is, the Left contains a MID and Right channel SIDE signals.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
LR to RL

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Swaps Left and Right channels.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
LR to RR

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-The Right channel is selected and fills both L and R outputs.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
Mid

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-A Mid signal is output on both channels, Mid = (L+R)/2.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
Mid - aSide splitter

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-A Mid signal remains on the plugin’s Mixer track an ‘adapted’ Side signal is sent to the IN/OUT Difference track.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
MS to LR

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-Converts a M/S Joint stereo input to Stereo Left/Right signals.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
Side

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-The Side signal is output on both channels, Side = (L-R)/2.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper
Mixing Presets -
Side - Residual splitter

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-A Side signal, (L-R)/2, remains on the plugin’s Mixer track, the residual is sent to the IN/OUT Difference track.

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper-
Preset NOTES: Adapted channels

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  • (a) denotes one of the channels has been phase inverted to aid Left/Right stereo reconstruction.
  • -For example, aSide has its Right channel inverted so that mixing the aSide’s Right channel with either Mid channel (both the left & right Mid channels are identical) will reconstruct a Right channel signal.
  • –In other words, while Left = Mid+Side, Right = Mid-Side, so the Right channel of the Side output must be phase inverted or ‘adapted’ (aSide).
  • —If the Right side channel was not phase inverted (adapted) we’d get another Left channel reconstructed on the Right Mixer track. See the section on Mid/Side Stereo processing for more details.
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper-
Preset NOTES:
Mixing preset names
What do Splitter preset names do?

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  • The first descriptor of any preset name pairing with splitter in the Mixing preset list describes the signal to leave the plugin on the same Mixer track, while the second descriptor of a pairing will be sent out via the sidechain track.
  • -For example, the ‘Left - Right splitter’ preset outputs the Left channel on the plugin’s Mixer track, and the Right channel on the sidechain Mixer track (as selected by the ‘In/Out Difference’ selector).
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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper-
Preset NOTES:
What does MID refer to?

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-Is short for Middle, it is the mono sum of both channels.
–Formula: Middle = (L+R)/2.
—While it is called MID (Middle), it is not only the center pan (middle) sounds, as the Left and Right panned sounds are also mixed into the MID signal.
—-It’s just both stereo channels combined and divided by 2, bringing the level down to the average of the two channels.
—–Unfortunately you will see MID discussed on the web as if it is only the center pan (Middle) information, that is a misunderstanding stemming from its origins in the Mid/Side recording microphone technique.
-A MID signal is however dominated by the center pan (middle) sounds. MID is produced when:
(+Mono Right side added to +Mono Left side)/2 =
1Middle + 0.5L + 0.5R

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FL STUDIO - Fruity Stereo Shaper-
Preset NOTES:
What is SIDE

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-Are the sounds panned to the sides, in other words the stereo components of the audio or the signals unique to each speaker.
–Formula: SIDE = (L-R)/2. As the common mono signals cancel we are left with the side signals, mixed together.
—A positive ‘SIDE’ signal indicates that the Left signal is larger than the Right channel, a negative ‘SIDE’ value indicates that the Right channel is larger than the Left. SIDE is produced when:
(+Mono Right side added to +Mono Left side)/2 =
+ 0.5L - 0.5R
—-Like the MID signal, the SIDE signal requires only one channel to represent it, see MS Stereo coding (below). Unlike the MID signal the SIDE is indeed only the stereo information, free of any mono signals. This means any processing done on this signal will affect only the stereo (side) components of the mix.

Left stereo channel = (L+R)/2 + (L-R)/2. Given L+R/2 = MID & (L-R)/2 = SIDE, this can also be written, Stereo Left = MID + SIDE.
Right stereo channel = (L+R)/2 - (L-R)/2. Alternatively, Stereo Right = MID - SIDE.

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Preset NOTES:
M/S stereo coding

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  • This is a type of Joint Stereo, a stereo signal that has been re-processed as a MID and SIDE channel rather than Left and Right.
  • -Since MID and SIDE signals are able to be represented in single channels, then a two track audio file (stereo) can contain M/S rather than L/R.
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-NOTE: Did you know that you can perform all the functions present in the Fruity Stereo Shaper by doing what?

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  • Using appropriate routing and phase inversion of standard Mixer tracks?
  • -When you are done with these tutorials, why not try to create a MID and SIDE Mixer track from a source Mixer track using only the routing and Mixer track controls.
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The physics of mixing sound

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  • One of the main functions of the Stereo Shaper is to cross-mix the Left and Right stereo channels.
  • -By varying the phase and level of mixing a variety of useful effects can be achieved, including panning, stereo enhancement and MID/SIDE encoding/decoding.
  • –To understand the more complex mixing processes it’s useful to have a clear understanding of how sound waves mix according to their phase.
  • —For example, when two identical sound-waves are mixed they add together to make a wave twice as loud.
  • —-However, if one wave is inverted so the phase is exactly opposite, they will cancel to silence.
  • In the case of the stereo mix, we can use this technique to cancel out the middle (center pan) audio as described later in the next section.
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By varying the phase and level of mixing left and right stereo channels, what can you do?

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-A variety of useful effects can be achieved, including panning, stereo enhancement and MID/SIDE encoding/decoding.

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One of the main functions of the Stereo Shaper is to do what with left and right stereo channels?

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-Cross-mix the Left and Right stereo channels.

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Mixing Left/Right stereo channels

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  • It’s common to think about a stereo track as a Left and a Right channel, reproduced over a pair of speakers or headphones.
  • -However we can also think of it as stereo and mono signals mixed together.
  • –The center pan sounds appear to come from the middle of the speakers (i.e. mono-like), don’t confuse this with the MID signal since the MID signal (as described above) also has stereo information mixed into it.
  • —‘Mono’ sounds are generated when both speakers producing the exact same sound at the same level.
  • —-The stereo audio is produced when the Left and Right speaker make unique sounds, or the same sound at different levels.
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How is MID signal different than MONO?

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-The center pan sounds appear to come from the middle of the speakers (i.e. mono-like), don’t confuse this with the MID signal since the MID signal (as described above) also has stereo information mixed into it.

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A full stereo track has what components?

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-stereo and mono signals mixed together.

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-The diagram left shows two tracks, a center panned (Mono) and a ‘Stereo’ track with ‘Left-side’ and ‘Right-side’ hard panned L and R.
What does this create?

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-These two tracks are mix into a single stereo track.
+Left side with +L Mono = +Left side + Mono
+Right side with + R Mono = +Right side + Mono
–These two outputs together make a stereo mix.

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Stereo signal

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  • If we take the words as literally then ‘Left side’ is panned hard left and the words ‘Right side’ are panned hard right.
  • -This sounds stereo since the Left and Right channels are making unique sounds.
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Mono

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  • The word ‘Mono’ is panned dead center.
  • -This means both Left and Right speakers reproduce the same word ‘Mono’ at the same volume.
  • –This also sounds ‘mono’ and so panned to the middle.
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Combined is what?

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  • When the two tracks are mixed (+) the Left channel will now say ‘Left side’ & ‘Mono’ while the Right channel will say ‘Right side’ & ‘Mono’.
  • -Consequently, the words ‘Left side’ and ‘Right side’ appear to come from the extreme Left and Right sides of the mix while the word ‘Mono’ appears to come from the Center of the stereo field, the resulting mix will cover the full stereo spread (Left, Right & Center).
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Panning
Our stereo track can be later panned Left or Right by one of two methods, which are?

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  • Independent L/R volume changes
  • -Cross channel mixing
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Our stereo track can be later panned Left or Right by
Independent L/R volume changes, which is?

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  • By lowering or raising the volume of the L or R channel will cause the apparent position of the sound of the word ‘Mono’ to move toward the louder side.
  • -The independent words ‘Right side’ & ‘Left side’ will appear to stay put but will seem quieter.
  • –The independent channel loudness method preserves the independence of the L and R channel information at the expense of losing any audio that is unique to the reduced channel at extreme panning.
  • —To resolve the problem: use cross channel mixing
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Our stereo track can be later panned Left or Right by
Cross channel mixing, is what?

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  • Mixing (adding) the signal from one channel into other and reducing the source channel volume by the same amount.
  • -This is similar to ‘pouring’ the sound from one channel into another, a little like water from one glass to another (the sounds mix).
  • –In our pan-to-left example, the Left channel will produce all the words, ‘Left’, ‘Mono’ & ‘Right’, no sounds are lost.
  • —NOTE: This is the method used by the FL Studio Mixer pan control.
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Stereo Expansion works how?

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  • This is the same process that the Stereo separation knob on the Mixer uses when turned to the left of the 12 O’clock position.
  • -In essence it is a inter-L/R channel phase-inverted cross-mix.
  • –This means common sounds (mono) will cancel while different sounds (stereo) will remain unchanged.
  • —The diagram (above) below shows happens algebraically, the Left channel = Mono + Left - 0.5 Mono - 0.5 Right = Left - 0.5 Right + 0.5 Mono and Right channel = Mono + Right - 0.5 Mono - 0.5 Left = Right - 0.5 Left + 0.5 Mono.
  • —-Note that the ‘Mono’ (center pan) sounds are at 0.5 (50%) of their original volume and, more importantly, the L and R (side) signals are still at 100%, now 2x louder than the Mono (center) mix.
  • —–In other words, we have enhanced the side component (the stereo effect).
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Using Stereo Expansion

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  • Start with a new project and load an audio clip with a good stereo spread into the Playlist, this tutorial won’t work with a mono sound, if there is no stereo, there is nothing to enhance.
  • -Load a Stereo Shaper on the Master Mixer track.
  • –Subtractive cross-mixing works by inverting the phase of a channel and adding it to its stereo partner.
  • —Phase is controlled by the direction of the sliders as shown in the Mixer Matrix diagram above, the upper half is a normal mix, the lower half is a negative phase (a subtractive mix if any signals are in common).
  • The Stereo Shaper opens with the ‘Default’ patch; note that the Left into right and Right into left channel sliders are set to the middle position (no mixing) and Left channel volume and Right channel volume sliders are at the 100% position (+0 dB).
  • -The dB figures, by the way, describe the change made relative to the original signal. 0 dB is no volume change while -0dB means the signal is at the original volume but of the opposite phase (a mirror image).
  • –Set the project playing and drag the Left into right and Right into Left channel sliders down to -6dB (-50%)
  • —Notice how something magic happens; the stereo image seems to widen.
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Stereo Reduction works how?

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  • Compared to expansion, stereo reduction is relatively simple.
  • -Here the L and R channels are simply cross-mixed into each other so that, at the extreme, the Left and Right channels are identical.
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Using Stereo Reduction

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  • Start with the default patch.
  • -Set all the sliders to -6 dB, this is, starting from the left most slider, 50% mix of Right into left, 50% Left level, 50% Right level and 50% Left into Right mix.
  • –The L and R channels are reduced to 50% in order to maintain the overall level.
  • This is how the Stereo separation knob on the Mixer operates when turned to the right of 12 O’clock position.
  • -To achieve this using the Stereo Shaper place all the sliders in the 50% (+6 dB) position, or select the ‘Mono’ preset.
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Middle Pan Sound Removal

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  • Starting from the ‘Stereo Expansion’ tutorial, if the Left into right and Right into left channel sliders are lowered from - 6 dB to -0 dB (that is -100% cross-mix) then any common audio signals between the L and R channels will completely cancel.
  • -This leaves only the information unique to each Left and Right channel PLUS and inverted copy of the unique audio from the opposite channel.
  • –Algebraically, Left channel = (M+L) - (M+R) = L-R and Right channel = (M+R) - (M+L) = R-L. This cross-mixing will still sound ‘mono’, compressed into the center, but it has removed the sounds that were originally common to both channels (the middle mixed sounds).
  • —You will probably also notice it sounds slightly strange, this is due to the cross-channel phase differences, the sound you are hearing is effectively a center-pan mix of what used to be in the extreme stereo-field. Inverting the phase of either the L or R channel will make the sound less ‘strange’ (as both channels will then be truly identical) but the sound will be diffuse, low level and not particularly pleasing. To invert the phase of one channel, insert another Stereo Shaper after the first, select the ‘Default’ patch and set either the Left or Right channel volume to -0 dB.
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Middle Pan Sound Removal
NOTE: ‘Middle Pan Sound Removal’ is commonly marketed as ‘vocal extraction’ ( see a video here). Assuming the vocals are panned to the exact center of the speakers and they contain no stereo effects (reverb, ping-pong delay, etc.) and the music is mostly in stereo, the instruments panned around the stereo field, then theoretically it should be possible to extract the mid (vocal) from the side (music) components of the mix. Sounds great in theory, but almost always fails in practice, as the stereo-effect is removed along with the vocal, and the assumptions we just outlined are never 100% satisfied, just like customers of vocal extraction tools. As Fruity Stereo Shaper can side-chain out the MID and SIDE components into separate channels you can either preserve the MID (mainly vocal, although there will still be L/R panned music at 50%-100% of the original level depending on where it was panned) and SIDE (mainly music) components of the mix.

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Middle Pan Sound Removal
NOTE: ‘Middle Pan Sound Removal’ is commonly marketed as ‘vocal extraction’ ( see a video here). Assuming the vocals are panned to the exact center of the speakers and they contain no stereo effects (reverb, ping-pong delay, etc.) and the music is mostly in stereo, the instruments panned around the stereo field, then theoretically it should be possible to extract the mid (vocal) from the side (music) components of the mix. Sounds great in theory, but almost always fails in practice, as the stereo-effect is removed along with the vocal, and the assumptions we just outlined are never 100% satisfied, just like customers of vocal extraction tools. As Fruity Stereo Shaper can side-chain out the MID and SIDE components into separate channels you can either preserve the MID (mainly vocal, although there will still be L/R panned music at 50%-100% of the original level depending on where it was panned) and SIDE (mainly music) components of the mix.

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MID / SIDE Stereo Mastering

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The MID/SIDE processing technique has a number of applications including mastering. For example, stereo recordings of instruments such as acoustic guitars can have their stereo components equalized brighter and/or have the stereo field widened. On the other hand, bass sounds (usually panned to center) can be independently compressed and made louder. To aid this process, Fruity Stereo Shaper has the ability to side-chain out the difference output, that is, the difference between the processed output of the plugin and the original input signal. If we cause the plugin to output the MID (middle) signal, then the difference (leaving via the sidechain selector) will be the SIDE (stereo) signal. Using this approach we will set the plugin to split the MID and SIDE signals for independent processing. You will require two Mixer tracks for this technique and your input audio will need a stereo component, otherwise there is no ‘side’ signal to separate from the MID:

In the above configuration the MID signal is passing through Stereo Shapers Mixer track, onto the Master. The stereo SIDE signal is send out to the sidechained track and then onto the Master. Right-click the IN/OUT DIFFERENCE selector to set. Here’s how to set up:

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MID / SIDE Stereo Mastering
Example

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Open a new FL Studio project.
Load your audio to be processed as an Audio Clip and put it in the Playlist.
Load Stereo Shaper into a Mixer track.
Rename the Mixer track, holding Stereo Shaper, MID (Middle). This track will output the MID signal to the Master track.
Route your Audio Clip (that is the audio to be processed) to the MID Mixer track.
Rename the Mixer track immediately to the right of the Stereo Shaper SIDE (stereo). This track will receive the SIDE signal and forward that to the Master track.
Sidechain routing - Select the MID Mixer track and Right-click on the SIDE Mixer track’s send switch and select Sidechain to this track. The MID track is now sidechained to the SIDE track.
Right-click the IN / OUT Difference selector and select the SIDE Mixer track from the list. The Stereo Shaper is now sending the SIDE signal to the SIDE track. You need to have sidechained to a track for it to appear in the list (see the step above).
From the Stereo Shaper plugin select the Mid - aSide splitter preset. The MID and SIDE signals from the Audio Clip will now appear on the respectively named ‘MID’ and ‘SIDE’ tracks (see the ‘Presets’ section for notes on interpreting preset names).
Press play and listen to your Audio Clip. It should sound unchanged, however you should see the MID and SIDE Mixer tracks both contain audio. Normally the SIDE signal is usually quite a bit lower in volume than the MID signal, so the peak-meters will reflect this.
Stereo enhancing - You can raise the SIDE Mixer track by UP TO +6 dB or lower the MID Mixer track by -6 dB (or +3 dB SIDE and -3 dB MID) to maximize the stereo effect. If you go beyond 6 dB relative adjustment, the stereo effect will be progressively diminished (see the section ‘Stereo expansion’ above to learn why 6 dB is the magic number). If you have been ‘fiddling’, re-select the ‘Mid - aSide splitter’ preset.
Soloing MID/SIDE components - Note that if you solo the MID track, it sounds mono (as expected), however if you solo the SIDE track it doesn’t sound stereo. Indeed, it sounds ‘very weird’ mono. This is because the side signals need to be combined with the mid signals before they become a stereo sound. Soloing the side signal results in the same audio as discussed in section ‘Middle pan sound removal’ above. Rest assured, that the effects processing you apply to this signal will be applied independently to the SIDE components of the input signal, you just can’t hear these in isolation and in ‘stereo’ at the same time.
MID / SIDE Mastering (finally!) - By placing effects such as a Compressor and Parametric EQ after the Stereo Shaper plugin and on the SIDE Mixer track, you can independently reverb/compress/EQ the MID and SIDE components of the signal.
Keep levels in mind - When compressing and EQing the MID and SIDE signals, make sure you keep an eye on the final level in each of the MID and SIDE Mixer tracks. If the output of either track varies from the unprocessed level (disable the ‘mastering’ effects to check), you will be modifying the stereo spread along with level changes caused by the effect/s (you may or may not want this). For example, if you compress the SIDE signal and that raises the track output by +4 dB, you may want to reduce the track’s volume slider by a few dB to compensate and (generally) preserve the original stereo balance.

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MID / SIDE Stereo Mastering
NOTE: If you made the project you have access to all the components of the mix, so it’s far more effective to make any changes to compression, EQ and panning, etc. at an individual track level. You generally don’t really need to be MID/SIDE mastering. The technique is used mainly by mastering engineers who are given a stereo track and don’t have access to the complete mix as separate tracks (track ‘stems’ as they are called).

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MID / SIDE Stereo Mastering
NOTE: If you made the project you have access to all the components of the mix, so it’s far more effective to make any changes to compression, EQ and panning, etc. at an individual track level. You generally don’t really need to be MID/SIDE mastering. The technique is used mainly by mastering engineers who are given a stereo track and don’t have access to the complete mix as separate tracks (track ‘stems’ as they are called).

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