Fl Studio Note Properties How To Get MIDI

Here there are various options for manipulating your MIDI parts.

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Fl Studio Note Properties How To Get MIDI

We have looked in a previous workshop at how to get MIDI data into the application using various techniques, and now we will explore the any ways in which you can work with that data once it is inside the Piano Roll editor.

The great thing about MIDI is that it is virtually weightless and almost infinitely malleable.

It can be copied, pasted, shifted, tweaked and reassigned with a few clicks, all the while taking up virtually no file space at all.

And with the wealth of virtual instruments that FL Studio provides, you wont be short of new ways to generate sound.

New notes can be drawn in of course, and along the base of this window you will find a controller lane.

Right click on this and you reveal the different parameters that can be set here, including note pan, velocity and pitch, and channel volume, pitch and pan.

Its also possible by clicking on a generators name in the step sequencer list to reassign any MIDI pattern to play any instrument, or indeed to clone it and duplicate the pattern using a second generator, perhaps tweaking the pattern to create some variation as you do so.

Further tricks include using the LFO Tool to draw LFO shapes into the Event Editor of the Piano Roll window and using the Claw Machine to modify existing MIDI parts to create new variations easily.

Use the Zoom tool to select a range and zoom in on it, or double click to zoom out to see the whole part.

Select one or more notes and then go to the Options dropdown menu and the Edit section.

If you have selected the controller area you will also see the option to insert controller values in this menu.

Mouse to the right hand edge of any note and you can drag it to the right to make it longer.

If you grab multiple notes and perform any of these actions, all the notes are affected by the same amount.

This is useful for quickly creating rapid successions of notes, say for example for making a repeated kick drum part.

Click on the magnet icon at the top left corner of the Piano Roll editor and you can set how notes will snap, using a variety of subdivisions of a beat from a fine resolution all the way up to snapping to bar markers.

Right click on the bottom left hand corner of this window, or left click on the target control menu from the windows title bar to reveal a list of available controller parameters.