Dear Pete,

Is there a God? Whether or no, can you supply proofs?

recorded automation goes into the pattern you had selected in the playlist when you hit record; so if the pattern is too short it wont record more than the length of that pattern.

hit f4 before you hit record, and make sure you draw that pattern in after.

mark, that's really wierd -- try making sure your mouse settings are correct, and make sure 'use both mouse buttons in step sequencer' is checked in general properties

When I play out a melody or whatever it may be, I record it into channel one.. Then any automation I want to do, I usually lay that down in channel 2, and record it in realtime, while playing the song, to hear the melody at the same time..
If I want to redo the automation, is there any way to clear what was recorded previously in channel 2?
I know I can record over it, but if the automation clip is 4 bars, and I want to re-record it as only 2 bars, it will still play the last two bars.. So is there some way to remove what was recorded completely before overwriting it?

options : recording precount

make sure this is unchecked.

It depends entirely on what files are being used for your loops.

FL Studio uses .wav files

You have the option by left clicking the sound that you have placed in the Sample Sequencer (SS button at top of page)
to use your loops in loop mode or in one shot mode.

If your loops are in .AIFF mode (the files used by Mac musicians), then you will have to convert them to .WAV files.
Any decent sound editor (Sound Forge, Audition, WaveLab, Peak, et. al.) will be able to convert .AIFF files to .WAV files
with no loss of fidelity (that I"m aware of , at least). Furthermore, most current editions of those sound editors will give you the ability
to Batch Convert your files.

If you are a newbie to Fruity Loops, I suggest you spend a couple of hours by just moving your mouse over all the visual goodies
that appear on each page (their are five main page views: PL = PlayList (or the 'song' mode where you put patterns together),
SS = Sample Sequencer (which are the individual 'bars' or 'measures' of music that you program to then add together to make 'songs'),
SB = Sample Browser (which is where you store all of your samples that you will manipulate later), FX = well, Effects where you can put effects onto a single channel (by clicking the swirly button on the far upper left hand part of each mini sample editing page)and
PR = Piano Roll (which accesses a visual rendering of a keyboard so that you can tune your samples and record patterns that are longer than just one measure)

practise right and left clicking on everything and you'll discover tons of amazing functions that FLStudio has.

This software has just gotten deeper and deeper over the past three years and it is still incredibly intuitive and easy to use and
still ridiculously cheap compared to other things on the market.

I'm sooooo sad it is not available for the Mac, as there is really nothing equivalent to it on the Mac side of the world. As a sound design teacher, I'm always a little bummed when students come to me with Mac setups because we can't use this wonderful program

1. well you're understandably confused; the midi out generator makes no noise. if you want to *hear* the midi notes you're drawing while drawing them, create a new VST object, and in the menu, select the thing that says something about 'midi in port' it's a green selector on the top right of the VST host window. set the midi in port to the same port as have the midi out generators, then you'll hear sound from that synth.

midi channels are not affected by mixer channels, since mixer channels are an audio processing deal, you're not doing any of that. to have midi channels show up in different channels in the output .mid file, change the channel number in the generator window.

2. well, the vibrato is going to a note generated in your keyboard, so what you need to do is link the mod wheel to a controller that you've configured in the midi out pane, then the controller data will pass. rtfm re: midi out

if this dosen't clear it up drop me an email - meatsock at gmail

You'll have to render out a huge portion of your tracks into wavs and then compile them all together in a 60 minute "live act" file - with each of your (channel)tracks rendered out seperately or however you see fit. Then compose some transitions to make it all seamless.

Next, you will have to decide whether you want to sell out and just hit the play button and look like you're busy with EQ (not uncommon) or if you will actually do something live. Decide which elements you want to automate and port the vsti's or fx or whatever into the live act project file and map out the knobs or sliders or w/e to your midi controllers. The tough part is you will have to do some major copy and pasting and aligning - open 2 instances of FL and just export inport scores, synths, fx, everything, into your live act file that you may plan on automating live. Then link up knobs/sliders to your controller for everything you want to automate - it may be a good idea to use post-it notes or a sheet of paper to tell you what is all linked incase you forget. I would also do a full automation pass to get the default values/ auto in the live act that way if a knob or slider is bumped by accident it wont fubar how they should be on the synths.

The big alternative to this is to just dading into eao some on the fly mousework and just link your midi controller input on the fly - with FL this is thankfully easy enough - this trades off ease for more work on stage and more potential to mess something up - try to do this all in the most fail-proof way you can imagine and make notes for yourself

So you have to do all this (render to wav and port only what you want to automate) because of CPU usage, which shouldnt exceed 50 or so for stability and to keep headroom open for automation processing. the less cpu the better, and put everything you put into the channel rollout to "smart disable" to save more cpu.

This all is how I IMAGINE to do a live act with FL - its a lot of work no matter who you are or what you use, I'll emphasize that each person does it differently and finds their own way to do it (just like production) - also I dont have direct experience on a stage with this so dont trust me too much :) but if you dont know where to start - this should help. how elaborate and how "live" you can make this is up to you but at minimum all you need is the wavs crossfade into eachother in one big file and then hit the play button, and unfortunately quite a few people do this, then "look busy".

click on the arrow next to the folder in the VST wrapper and the VST settings menu pops up. i've pasted the help file, peruse it and see if it helps.

it's very possible that Edirol Orchestral is just a piece of shit, i've heard other complaints about it.

Options
These features are provided to allow you to troubleshoot 3rd party plugins that don’t behave themselves inside FL Studio. Trial and error is OK if you must. Be aware that the default states are compliant with all plugin standards, so switching any of the following settings on may cause problems for plugins that conform to standards.

Send pitch bend range - When selected, the MIDI pitch bend range will be passed to the plugin. Plugins which support pitch bend range will respond correctly to host bend instructions. This is not selected by default as some plugins interpret pitch bend range messages as a filter reset message, causing problems.
Send loop position - Sends information about the song loop start and end positions to a VST plugin. This has to be calculated by the wrapper so it isn't available until FL has looped once.
Check current program on display change (VSTs only) - Some plugins send a display change message when a new patch (program) is selected from within plugin. This option allows FL Studio to detect the patch change and ensure data is correctly copied between FL Studio and the plugin.
Legacy velocity translation - For compatibility with projects created in versions of FL Studio older than 5.0. From FL 5.0 the method for calculating velocity of a note was improved. This should only be used if you are experiencing velocity issues with older projects, this may appear as incorrect volume, velocity-based filtering etc.
Process inactive outputs (VSTs only) - Some plugins mark one or more of their outputs as ‘inactive’ even though they are being used. By default, FL Studio doesn't process inactive outputs, so no sound is produced. This option ensures FL Studio processes ‘inactive’ outputs.
Rendering mode notify (VSTs only) - This ensures that the plugin is informed when FL Studio is rendering. Some plugins will automatically switch to a higher quality output when rendering.
Use fixed size buffers (all plugin formats) – FL Studio shares data with plugins using variable sized chunks of data (buffers). Some plugins require fixed sized buffers (which is outside the VST standard but supported in FL Studio for your convenience). This option ensures only fixed sized buffers are used. The disadvantage is that fixed size buffering introduces an extra delay, the delay depends on the audio buffer size selected in the Audio settings (F10). This delay is double for effects plugins. However, in some cases this setting may fix unwanted delays for certain plugins.
Save options for this plugin - Saves the options set in this menu so they will be remembered the next time the plugin is loaded.
Delete plugin options - Use this to clear the saved options for the loaded plugin type.
Automatically save plugin options - This is on by default, it automatically saves the options set in this menu so they will be remembered the next time the plugin is loaded.

i think the guitars were layered. read up on the layering channel, and email me your version of the file, since i have no idea where my copy is. meatsock at gmail

i have the same problem... i save my presets in orchestral with the name of the project as the preset name... its a clunky way to do that sh... but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do...

the strings in that synth are totaly worth the extra minute or so saving the settings... i've been harassing them via email forever... no reply

david

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