#Fl studio piano roll shortcuts how to

If I wanted to use my actual humming in the song, I would definitely use a nicer mic, but the point of this technique is to get an idea out fast and easy.Д®nabling the on-board microphone is easy for me, depending on your audio setup it might look different for you. My laptop has a built-in mic so I'll be using that.

#Fl studio piano roll shortcuts how to

This tutorial will show you how to hum a melody into the Piano Roll using Edison in FL Studio.ДЇirst you'll need a microphone of some sort, any can work. If you've ever had a melody that you could hum, but couldn't figure out the notes, or if you want a quicker way to figure out what notes are in your melody idea, this tutorial is for you. This tutorial was written by Sean Duncan for and is published here with permission. Other Uses for FLStudio note color groups include separating your grace notes from your main notes, grouping the 'in-between' notes in drum rolls, and best of all, easily adjusting and maintaining a group of notes. If you use a multi-timbral instrument's piano roll, the different note colors will respond to different midi channels.

If you're using a multiple-instrument module like Sampletank, Directwave, or Philharmonik, you will need to use a Midi Out channel in order to take advantage of note colors in this way. This piece wouldn't really work as a backing track for a vocal, but it would work well as an intro, solo, or outro. Here's the example playing over a stock FLStudio loop. I'm going to use a harp because it's similar to a piano, the notes might even make it sound like a different type of piano. Switch the Color Group selection, use Shift+C to select by color, and then copy the notes to the new instrument's piano roll using the FLStudio piano roll's edit menu. If I hadn't been using different note colors, this would be very difficult to do, but with note colors, it's as easy as cut-and-paste. To help make it sound less busy, I want to move the upper octave notes to a different instrument. The images below show the FLStudio piano roll before and after editing, and the audio file shows the result. I copied everything four bars over to hear what it would sound like leading back into itself. Here's what it sounds and looks like in FLStudio: To do this, switch the Color Group Selection to Yellow, use shortcut Shift+C to select by color, and then move the melody over a bar. We're going to have the upper octave begin one bar later than the lower octave. Another term used for this, especially when it's a group of people singing, is 'in a round.' This step will be to have the melody play in canon. Now I'll undo that velocity change because I'm going to want equal velocities in this next technique. To do this, change the Color Group Selection in the upper-left to green, use keyboard shortcut Shift+C to select by color, and then use keyboard shortcut Alt+X for the Scale Levels tool. As an example, let's lower the velocity of only the green group. For example, if we wanted to apply different quantization to one of the groups or if we wanted to lower the velocity or timing of one the groups, we could easily do that. The main thing we've done here is to make it easier to select groups of notes in FLStudio. With the new notes selected, change the color group selection (which is the pallet of colors in the upper left) and use keyboard shortcut Alt+C (think ALTer + Color). In order to keep track of the higher octave, let's change the color of the new piano roll notes. This isn't the sort of thing you'd normally do with a piano part, but more likely with an ensemble of strings or brass. Next, I am going to make a copy of the melody and have it play one octave higher, in addition to the melody already in place. Let's begin with a piano melody, I recorded it in FLStudio with my midi keyboard.