Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

why do you posers still use the lego blocks?

STEP. IT. UP.

GET SANIC FAST.

Hello Everyone! :)

what a great forum/topic!

I've been browsing a little but couldn't go through all 199 pages. I just started out using FL and I'm pretty lost.
Bear with me, but my first questions are:

1. It says on the box, I should have 2048 samples, but I feel like I do not have that many samples (FL 10). How do I activate all samples to be usable for me? do you think I did something wrong during installation? When starting it, the little icon on the windows tool bar (bottom right, next to time and date) is always set to 512 when I start it up.

2. I'm looking for a variation of trumpet sounds, but I cannot find any trumpet or horn sounds (etc) except for 1, which doesn't sound much like a trumpet. Are there none in FL or did I just not load/find them (if so, where are they)?

Thank you very much in advance for the input!

At 1/21/13 09:42 AM, steinbock01 wrote: 1. It says on the box, I should have 2048 samples, but I feel like I do not have that many samples (FL 10). How do I activate all samples to be usable for me? do you think I did something wrong during installation? When starting it, the little icon on the windows tool bar (bottom right, next to time and date) is always set to 512 when I start it up.

hooooooo boy
not sure if you're joking or not and if you're not then it's way too much to explain properly

but basically "samples" can mean the length of your "audio buffer" - less samples means shorter buffer, which means less lag at the expense of increased CPU usage. the 512 samples or 2048 samples thing has nothing to do with the number of preset sounds that come with the program

2. I'm looking for a variation of trumpet sounds, but I cannot find any trumpet or horn sounds (etc) except for 1, which doesn't sound much like a trumpet. Are there none in FL or did I just not load/find them (if so, where are they)?

maybe some of these soundfonts will be good (i don't think i've used them before) but you will need a third party soundfont player if you only have the demo version of the fruity soundfont player plugin.

At 1/21/13 10:05 AM, midimachine wrote:

At 1/21/13 09:42 AM, steinbock01 wrote: 1. It says on the box, I should have 2048 samples, but I feel like I do not have that many samples (FL 10). How do I activate all samples to be usable for me? do you think I did something wrong during installation? When starting it, the little icon on the windows tool bar (bottom right, next to time and date) is always set to 512 when I start it up.

hooooooo boy
not sure if you're joking or not and if you're not then it's way too much to explain properly

but basically "samples" can mean the length of your "audio buffer" - less samples means shorter buffer, which means less lag at the expense of increased CPU usage. the 512 samples or 2048 samples thing has nothing to do with the number of preset sounds that come with the program

2. I'm looking for a variation of trumpet sounds, but I cannot find any trumpet or horn sounds (etc) except for 1, which doesn't sound much like a trumpet. Are there none in FL or did I just not load/find them (if so, where are they)?

maybe some of these soundfonts will be good (i don't think i've used them before) but you will need a third party soundfont player if you only have the demo version of the fruity soundfont player plugin.

ahh... now That makes sense.. Thanks a lot!! :D

unfortunately..I wasn't joking, lol. I have no clue of anything, and most of the questions asked here are still a mystery for me as to what they're even talking about at all. It'll obviously be a long way, but I really want to do this. Thank you so much for the input and the link!!! :)))

I have a limiting issue with using MIDI stuff in FL Studio. I'll use an example for it: when I use EDIROL orchestral, I have 9 different MIDI outputs set. Is there any way I can assign each MIDI separately to its own mixer channel?

Also, is there anyway to go over 99 mixer channels...?

At 2/2/13 04:20 PM, SoulofT wrote: I have a limiting issue with using MIDI stuff in FL Studio. I'll use an example for it: when I use EDIROL orchestral, I have 9 different MIDI outputs set. Is there any way I can assign each MIDI separately to its own mixer channel?

Also, is there anyway to go over 99 mixer channels...?

What I've noticed with Edirol is that it appears to have 4 outputs. In other words, it can route to 4 different mixer channels, as far as I know. The way I've gotten around that is to export each instrument individually, then route the .wav files into the mixer. Be careful though! If you leave Edirol on over the .wav files, it sounds really weird. Could be used as an effect, but most times you won't want it.

At 2/2/13 04:20 PM, SoulofT wrote: I have a limiting issue with using MIDI stuff in FL Studio. I'll use an example for it: when I use EDIROL orchestral, I have 9 different MIDI outputs set. Is there any way I can assign each MIDI separately to its own mixer channel?

Also, is there anyway to go over 99 mixer channels...?

What I've noticed with Edirol is that it appears to have 4 outputs. In other words, it can route to 4 different mixer channels, as far as I know. The way I've gotten around that is to export each instrument individually, then route the .wav files into the mixer. Be careful though! If you leave Edirol on over the .wav files, it sounds really weird. Could be used as an effect, but most times you won't want it.

Sorry about that. Errors decided to force me to post twice. :|

What I've noticed with Edirol is that it appears to have 4 outputs. In other words, it can route to 4 different mixer channels, as far as I know. The way I've gotten around that is to export each instrument individually, then route the .wav files into the mixer. Be careful though! If you leave Edirol on over the .wav files, it sounds really weird. Could be used as an effect, but most times you won't want it.

Seems like a decent solution, but I usually dislike exporting patterns separately as I might want to change them/ parts of them later on. But if there's no other way then I guess it's a solution ^^

At 2/2/13 05:21 PM, SoulofT wrote: Seems like a decent solution, but I usually dislike exporting patterns separately as I might want to change them/ parts of them later on. But if there's no other way then I guess it's a solution ^^

On the plus side, you can just mute the edirol sections and then edit them later if it doesn't work out.

So basically i bought fl studio producer editon recently and it has been working fine. Ever since a few days ago everytime i've opened it up it has been looking odd (See picture)

Any help on how to get fl looking normal again would be greatly appreciated.

At 2/6/13 06:14 AM, wandschrank wrote:

You can grab those boxes on the left corner and change their position via drag & drop. :)

ohhh, haha cheers for fixing the problem.

Anyone have any experience settings up incremental rotaries in FL with NRPN? Such as the endless rotaries on the MPK controllers? The issue hasnt been addressed by any of the FL devs in years and I don't think an easy solution on their side is coming anytime soon.

Normally i would be able to change the volume (velocity) of individual notes with the thing in the piano roll but it has disappeared. I've included a crappy picture I made on paint of what it should look like. Any help is greatly appreciated

Try right-clicking this bar.

Ive been trying to fix this for weeks thanks a bunch.

At 2/8/13 11:04 AM, LiquidOoze wrote: I get a feeling that Edison really hates me.

I'm trying to live record a song in Edison. The song is about 5.5 minutes long. The issue is that whenever I record more than 5 minutes in Edison, it will keep recording but it will cut off the start of the song, which means when I m done recording, the first half minute of the song is missing. Is there a way to solve this? (Other than making my song shorter cuz I'm definately not doing that.)

What exactly are you recording?
This was my fix before switching to Ableton Live:

- Export Instrumental as .mp3
- Import Instrumental.mp3 into Audacity (Free)
- Use Audacity to record vocals/instrument over Instrumental
- Delete Instrumental, left with only the recording
- Export recording to .wav
- Import .wav into FL project as Audio Clip.

I know it's only a work-around, but I couldn't stand either of FL's recording methods.

At 2/8/13 11:39 AM, LiquidOoze wrote:

At 2/8/13 11:37 AM, MilkyChocolate wrote: What exactly are you recording?

I'm recording the song as a whole. I'm using a Fruity Peak Controller and I manually need to mute and unmute it because you can't automate that.

Wait.. what? Please be more specific. Are you sitting at your computer with an acoustic guitar and a microphone, are you re-recording pre-recorded audio at line level?

Why do you need to mute/unmute the peak controller?

These are all crucial to helping you.

(Also, try using the master record button, and choosing audio, into the arrangement view.)

At 2/8/13 11:56 AM, LiquidOoze wrote: Things

Oohh. I understand now. Thanks.
I would do an external/complex internal route to another computer/program like audacity, and record like that.
I don't know your setup and resources, so I can't help, sorry.

At 2/8/13 11:39 AM, LiquidOoze wrote:

At 2/8/13 11:37 AM, MilkyChocolate wrote: What exactly are you recording?

I'm recording the song as a whole. I'm using a Fruity Peak Controller and I manually need to mute and unmute it because you can't automate that.

Leave mute turned on and automate the wet/dry mix in the FX channel, it will have the same effect.

My guess is that people either missed my question or have no clue to what NRPN or incremental faders are. Aight fine I'll go bug gol about it. Maybe I'll send him an MPK so he can actually work it into FLs supported controllers.

=P

At 2/8/13 11:58 PM, Breed wrote: My guess is that people either missed my question or have no clue to what NRPN or incremental faders are. Aight fine I'll go bug gol about it. Maybe I'll send him an MPK so he can actually work it into FLs supported controllers.

=P

fwiw i tried figuring something out but I don't have any devices with endless encoders :v

At 2/9/13 12:12 AM, midimachine wrote:

At 2/8/13 11:58 PM, Breed wrote: My guess is that people either missed my question or have no clue to what NRPN or incremental faders are. Aight fine I'll go bug gol about it. Maybe I'll send him an MPK so he can actually work it into FLs supported controllers.

=P

fwiw i tried figuring something out but I don't have any devices with endless encoders :v

It's really Akai's fault. Those stingy bastards have been saying they would send imageline an MPK for like 5 years.