FL Studio

[mnkyman]

so i got a copy of it but...

 

 

im having trouble actually writing music

 

 

is there a way i can get a staff or something lol

 

can i get more instruments?

 

is there a way i can write the music in finale and render the midi in FL Studio?

 

 

and tutorials are welcome

 

thanks

[Fortisimo]

FL is a bit more technical at first than other music composition software setups. Check out this getting started guide; FL Getting Started Guide. You don't use a staff, you use the 'piano roll', which basically looks like a 10 or 11 octave piano with a grid next to it divided into 16th notes. It's really pretty self-explanatory. Anyways, check out the geting started guide and also look at the included sample projects (they're in the folder FL->data->projects->cool stuff).

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[mnkyman]

is there a place to get more instruments/channels to use in FL??? cause i cant seem to find any of the cool things yall put into your songs

[mnkyman]

anyone?

[Fortisimo]

Ummmmm the internet? And what kind of cool stuff are you refering to? You may need to research VST instruments. For Orchestral, which is qwat I use for my show renderings can be gotten from various bit torrents and other such shady methods.

[mnkyman]

whats the names ? and ill look it up on torrentportal

[Fortisimo]

Edirol Orchestral for band stuff... Hypersonic for various other synths (a number of really good drum kits there).... I've heard Zeta is a good all around synth... oh, and this comes with FL, but I would read up on sytrus and play around with it alot- you can get some really cool sounds out of that thing.

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[Maverick27]

Sytrus is amazing, I bought FL Producer edition, but haven't spent the $150+ to get sytrus officially, but what you can do is make songs with sytrus on, render them as mp3s with them, but then just replace them with a free channel when you save them. Check out some of my stuff using FL if you want: Here

I've been at it for almost a year now, just toy around and learn FL yourself is the best way.

[percussioninstructor]

FL Studio is a pain to write with! unless your writing...well obviously "techno" based music. Its all duple feel..maybe im retarded...or dont have the knowledge of the program...but just try to drop a triplet in a line of 8th notes...i cant do it...can you?

[Fortisimo]

...yeah, actually. In fact, beyond that I can make sextuple, and well, I can free write abstract rythms that would be basically impossible in traditional notation.