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Posts tagged FL Studio
Tutorial: Recording and Monitoring Audio in FL Studio
Sep 7th
At the request of Jesus Prieto of USA Indie, I’ve created a new FL Studio tutorial. This one covers how to go about adding your own vocals to an FL project that you’ve created, and how to hear yourself back in your cans as you sing. Read it here.
As always, if you have a question about FL Studio, or audio production in general, you can request a tutorial here.
In completely unrelated news, we’re down a peacock. We acquired a purebreed staffy puppy about five months ago, and she’s turned out to be (apart from totally cute) a stone cold killer.
I let her out at 6AM to do her ablutions, and she scampered off to explore (as she does). Unfortunately, coming across the peahen still asleep was too much of a temptation for her, and she pounced on the poor creature and killed it. She was later discovered eating it on the front lawn.
The remaining peacock seems a bit depressed about the whole thing.
FL Tutorial: Setting up a mix with Templates
Aug 6th
I added a new FL Studio tutorial to the site today, which covers how to use Templates to make your life so much easier. Sure, it’s fun to just start from an empty project and see where you end up, particularly if you’re in an advanced state of refreshment at the time, but you can often create a brilliant sounding mess that has to be organised before you can mix it (the next day, obviously).
Plus, if your style means that you use the same core synths regularly, using templates can save you a ton of time – you open the sequencer and have all your favourite tools pre-loaded. This is particularly useful when you’ve got an idea lurking at the edge of your brain and you need to get it down quick before the mundane task of picking a synth chases the idea back into the depths of your subconsciousness.
Read the tutorial here.
First tutorial
May 6th
YAY! Today I added the first of (hopefully) many tutorials to the site. This one is about my favourite app, FL Studio, and aims to teach a basic understanding of how routing works in the mixer.
I chose this subject because this unstanding is critical to everything else I want to teach, and it is (in my opinion) the single most useful thing you can know about FL Studio.
Incidentally, I am experimenting with a new anti-spam method on the commenting system. I apologise for the annoyance of having to fill out CAPTCHAs, but it’s the only system I can think of right now.