This video explains how to put slide notes and portamento notes into FL Studio. It also explains why slide notes do not work sometimes when they are placed into the piano roll. Wrongly positioning.

Rearrange and OrganiseIn the example – “Synth Lead C” doesn’t belong among the drum layers! Sort instruments and samples in the step sequencer and mixer. Hold the alt key in combination with the up and down arrow keys when in the step sequencer to move inserts. Hold the Alt key in combination with the left and right keys when in the mixer to move mixer tracks.When your song projects start getting bigger and better it helps to keep everything organised.

In a song you might have lead sounds, bass sounds, drum samples, sound effect samples and automation clips all thrown in. It helps to keep every layer named so you can remember what is what or it’ll quickly become a project that you open and instantly want to discard and move onto the next song (only to repeat in a vicious circle). If you spend time organising a project file you’ll end up being more invested in following through with the track. That’s a good thing!

I organise them into groups e.g. lead, bass, drums, sound effects, automation. Shortcut WizardIt’s one of those things which will slow you down at the start and speed you up in the long run. Get used to using your keyboards function keys in FL Studio to improve your workflow.

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Here are the shortcuts you should master early on to switch back and forth between windows fast: F5Toggle PlaylistF6Toggle Step SequencerF7Toggle Piano rollF8Show/hide Sample BrowserF9Show/hide MixerIn addition to these here are two more shortcuts which are good to know. First; Use the “alt” key when manipulating notes in the Piano Roll. This bypasses the snapping grid you have set and you can also use it to stretch or shorten the end of a note. Second; When you are drawing notes in the Piano Roll the note size will be equal to the previous note drawn or selected. Sometimes this is not desirable. In that case hold shift and draw a note and it’ll automatically be snapped back to the grid ready to be resized as you need it. “WTF is happening image-line!?”This frustrating interface problem can be caused when you undock one of the detachable interface panels (click and drag).

This can be quickly fixed by pushing CTRL+SHIFT+H – which reverts everything in FL Studio back to the default view.“WTF is happening image-line!?” v2In FL Studio, “Click and hold & Special Gesture functions” is enabled by default. It means for instance in Piano Roll if you click and hold a note for a short period of time, you’ll be drawing a slide note instead. If you click and hold the right mouse button in the Playlist, it’ll switch to the Slice tool. Whether you change this setting or not is down to personal preference. If you aren’t a fan of these gesture based functions it’s handy to know you can disable them as so from within FL Studio:Options General Settings uncheck “Click & Hold & special gesture functions” TemplatesIf you’re frequently using the same effects, synths and samples, set up templates for when you load FL Studio. That way, all of your favorite settings will be loaded from the beginning.You can set these up by saving any project in:.FL Studio Folder.DataProjectsTemplatesIn the image1 – Step sequencer. I like to use Sylenth1, Massive & FM8 so every project I begin will have these ready.

Set this up for yourself and your preferred synths.2 – Sidechain Channel set up in the mixer – the Fruity Limiter effect added and a kick drum side-chained to this track. By default I have my kick drum linked to mixer track 1.

Sylenth, Massive and FM8 are linked to track 2. You can add any number of effects here. You can have a signature synth lead sound with all your reverb/compression/delay/distortion effects added and pre-loaded. Really useful.3 – VST Plugins – configured to whichever state you need. Their settings will be retained for when you load FL Studio. I have them set to their default initialisation state. New song, new sounds.

Did I use that Pattern?Useful FL Studio function to know. Select any pattern or sample in the playlist and then press “select all similar clips”. It’ll highlight every instance of that pattern, or sample, or automation clip etc across the entire playlist. Good for when you want to quickly edit a drum sequence without affecting other parts of the song.

Use “select all similar clips” and if necessary use the “make unique” function which creates a new pattern right there – so you can edit on without affecting the original. Plugin SicknessSome plugins can cause FL Studio to Crash. One in particular is NI Massive – crashing FL studio whenever it loaded. It was possible to resolve this by deleting the database file located in:X:Users.your name.AppDataLocalNative InstrumentsMassiveFile – NIMassiveDataBaseulMoral of the Story – if FL Studio is crashing each time you load up a project or load a certain VST it’s possibly defective.

A quick reinstall or removing a file will usually resolve such issues. It’s possible backups won’t be active by default in FL Studio.In FL Studio – Options file settings Backup autosave  selectThis will generate a new (hidden) folder in your FL Studio directory. Backup files are stored inside the “Data” folder.X:.Program Files.Image-Line.FL Studio Folder.DataBackupYour backups will be saved here per the preferences you set within FL Studio. If you don’t take the time to sort this out now, you’ll end up setting it up after you lose a project. Precision.When working with automation clips in FL Studio, you can right click any knob or parameter and select “copy value” – and then paste the value into your automation clip for precise automation.

– Make it Pretty –Add a background to FL Studio. I use a black background with a subtle texture. The background I use is below – feel free to download.

The more straight forward the background is, the more you can focus your mind and get creative.Also, in FL Studio general options under animations try “entertain me!” and check the “ultrasmooth” setting for scrolling. It is also worth trying different skins, different view options in the piano roll/step sequencer and different font sizes in the browser. Play with these settings. I don’t use many of the default values. Special FX.

Use the reverse clip option on any sample to get interesting effects. Especially good for big cymbal crashes and impact sounds – reverse those for awesome power-up / build up effects. Record portions of your song and then reverse them, stretch them and change the pitch to create unique sound effects. Make a repeating arpeggiating sequence in the Piano Roll, like ascending triplets and then select the notes. Hold the “alt” key and drag back to make the entire sequence 2x/4x/8x faster. Copy/paste to fill the rest of the measure with those super-fast notes.

Surprisingly good way to make amazing sounds.HumanizationSome quick tips to make sequences sound less artificial. Panning and volume for drums. However you make your drums mix up the panning and volume to make it sound a bit more natural. It’s easy to do in the step sequencer, piano roll, or a drum VST like FPC. “alt+r” will open the randomiser in FL Studio which you can use to quickly add a subtle bit of variation to each note. Remove some drum hits from your sequence and add some “mistakes” to your melodies. For instance if you have a long sequence of ascending patterns delete a few notes, or move them completely off pitch.

If you have a rolling sequence of hi-hat notes, delete some completely. Use the “Alt” key when manipulating notes in the Piano Roll. This will allow you to stretch or shorten the length of any note which is useful to simulate how a human will play an instrument. For instance when you play guitar, you do not completely let go of the previous note when playing the next.

Here are a bunch of notes I've accumulated about midi slide. The last note is my summary of things. Hope it helps. TomNewsgroups: alt.music.midiFrom: Jeffery S. Jones - Find messages by this authorDate: 2000/04/13Subject: Re: Pitch bending in Cakewalk 9.On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:03:47 GMT, wrote:Am I correct is assuming that you attempted to bend notes using the wheeldraw box found in the piano roll screen's velocity-wheel-ChanAft-etc menu?You can do it by drawing in a pitch bend on the piano roll screen, or if youare really good, using your keyboard (or Virtual Piano) pitch wheel as youplay. Drawing on the piano roll screen isn't too hard - you open up a pianoroll view, find the area with your notes, set the controller to Pitch BendWheel, and start drawing, starting from the center (no bend) and ending on theending note time, with whatever amount of bend you want to apply.G to C is 5 semitones, and the default pitch bend range for most synths is 2semitones. You'll need to use the RPN 'Pitch Bend Sensitivity' to change thatrange to at least 5 semitones, if you want to use a single pitch bend for thischange.

If you set it to 5 semitones, then doing a pitch bend up from centerto max will always result in the right note at the end.ANOTHER METHOD IS TO USE PORTAMENTO, and play with the portamento time untilyou get a smooth pitch change which sounds good to you. This uses fewer MIDIevents than a pitch bend, but you have less control over the timing of thepitch change. Portamento isn't supported on all synths. In conjuction withmono mode (if your synth can do that), this can do a great job for creatinglong pitch slides from note to note, without much effort beyond fine-tuning theexact portamento speed. Portamento Control (CC#84), if available, gives you away to play a note which starts with a slide from the note specified withPortamento Control, rather than the last note played.An unfortunate problem with portamento is that the rate for portamento timeisn't standardized, so results may vary on synths other than those similar toyours. Pitch bend sensitivity is standardized, but the exact pitch resultingfrom a bend is not, but fortunately most synths follow the Roland/Yamahapattern (same for portamento), so it usually works out OK.Note that if your synth doesn't have portamento (many GM-only synths don't )and doesn't support pitch bend sensitivity, this will get harder, since you'llneed to add notes in between the start and end points of your intended slide.Quick tip to consider; there's a CAL called Slur which is quite easy to useand entirely effective.

Basically, in the piano role view you insert thefirst and last notes of your slide sequence - I've also included a fewnotes in between, but I don't think this is necessary. Then you call up theCAL, and away you go.I seem to recall that Slur was written by a CW user, and if so it will beeasy to find. At the following URL is should be there either on its own oras part of one of the CAL collection files.CAL requires Cakewalk Pro/Pro Audio. It does give a lot of useful ways toautomate MIDI file editing, and makes some otherwise complex tasks simple.IN ARTICLE, WROTE:Well, I've read the help files a thousand times, and I still can't get abass note to start at G and slide up to C in a quarter of a measure.

Cananyone give a brief rundown on how I can program a pitch bend in this damnthing? Bill.Newsgroups: comp.music.midi, alt.music.midiFrom: David K.

Cornutt - Find messages by this authorDate: 1996/07/08Subject: Re: How does portamento work?Glide from one note to another with a given instrument withoutrestarting the note, just changing the pitch. I know that pitchbendcan do this, but not easily with the given sequencer - you have towork with numbers, not notes.To do what you want, the way you want to do it, it has to happen in the synth,not the sequencer. What you need is legato.

Look in your sound module'smanual and see if it does it. You may have to turn legato on with some kind ofcontrol message, or it may activate automatically when portamento is on.(Typically, the way this works is: If portamento is on and the instrument isin a mono mode, if you trigger a new note before the previous note isreleased, instead of cutting off the previous note and starting another note,it just takes the old note's voice to the pitch of the new note.)Using Pitch Bend vs. Portamento - 4/21/2006 10:43:44 AMsincTake a look at:If you use a pitch bend, then you have the issue that you can (for example)play an A, then bend it up to say a D, but then you're stuck at the D. In orderto get another note, you need to release the A (which sounds like a D becauseof a pitch bend), then release the pitch bend lever, then play your next note.This does not work well for a situation where you want, say, a smooth glissandofrom A up to D, and then from the D up to the G, without a break between notes.By contrast, Portamento puts the glissando between every two notes you play. Soyou could play an A, then switch to a D, and you will hear a smooth glide tothe D. Then you could play a G, and hear a smooth slide to the G. It's mucheasier to slide to selected pitches using Portamento, but the effect is appliedto EVERY series of notes you play.Pitch-bend and Portamento are distinctly different features, and used fordifferent effects.

There's a slight overlap, but usually one is much moreappropriate than the other, depending on what effect you are trying to achieve.Portamento and MIDI(P = Portamento, N = Note On)Method 1Set CC5 to a non-0 P Time.Set CC65 (to 64 or above) to turn P On.Some synths must also be placed in Mono mode (vs. Only one note at atime can play on a given channel).Method 2Works on only one note. CC84 (P Control) takes a note number (pitch 0-127) asa value. On the next N, the pitch will glide from the specified pitch (whichmay already be On) to the pitch of the N message.More on Method 2.CC84 (P Control) sends a MIDI note number to set the starting note of a P,which will then be glided in a time set by CC5 to the net N message.When a N message is received after CC84, the voice's pitch glides from the keynumber specified in this message to the new N's pitch (at the rate set by CC5),ignoring the current status of CC65 (P on/off). This message only affects thenext N received on the relevant MIDI channel.Ignored if poly mode. In Mono mode a new overlapping note event results in animmediate pitch jump to the note number specified in the P control message andthen a glide at the current P rate to the note number specified in the new N.