Portamento is the curved line and slide is the triangle. This is great for momentary expression or more technical editing.Īctivate either mode up in the top left as pictured above. You can add a per note portamento or note slide (the difference between which is a short slide vs a timed slide). If your a big fan of the native plugins in FL, or at least occasionally dabble in them, you’ll want to try out these unique features available in the piano roll. This moves all of them at once, which is helpful for trying different key signatures or registers.

Tip 3: Move All Notes Up/DownĪ more impressive way to move ALL notes in a clip up or down would be to imply just press Shift (+ Cmd or Ctrl for an octave) without having any notes selected. A beautiful way to try out sounds on different octaves. If you want to take this one further, try holding Cmd or Ctrl to move up/down a whole octave. Moving the notes requires you to select them, hold Shift + Up/Down arrow, and they will move up or down a semitone at a time. Moving up or down with the arrows actually changes the view position in the piano roll.

Note that this only works with the Draw or Paint tool selected. Oh, and you can hit play to preview the note on its own. If you ever stuff up, just hit reset to change it back to the defaults. Starting off simple – did you know that double-clicking on any note in the Piano Roll allows you to specifically edit is properties?Ĭolour, velocity, start time, duration, pitch, pan and much more can all be configured, giving you precision control over your notes. Tip 12: Edit Ghost Notes from Other Channels.Tip 10: Duplicate MIDI with ‘Save score as…’.Note: If you’re an Ableton Live user, check out our piano roll video here. Nonetheless, let’s have a look at what FL Studio’s piano roll has to offer. These tips are current as of FL Studio 20, which you can buy here. You’ll be surprised at what you can learn. Shortcuts, tools, creative techniques – you name it.īesides, you know we’re a big fan of improving workflow through tips if you’ve been following us for a while.Īs always, it’s easy to skip through and read a couple, but make sure to give each one a go and see how you can work it into your production workflow. So I’ve curated the most useful and unique piano roll tips here so that you can really start to unpack the power of this wonderful tool. So powerful, that I could probably find 200+ tips to write about it.īut who wants to sift through over 200 tips? You probably just want to hear the best ones, right? Why? Well, as you’re about to see, it’s extremely powerful. But as an ex-FL Studio user, I really miss the Piano Roll, among other great features.

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