In every DAW you have the feature to group certain tracks or sounds to a single mixer channel. This is something very useful when mixing your production and it can save you a lot of time doing it. However, in FL Studio it can be a bit hard to find out how this feature works. So here’s a short tutorial on how to group mixer channel/tracks.
Why group different tracks to a single mixer channel?
When you want to edit your sounds, you will each give them their own mixer channel. So you can add effects to that specific sound. But sometimes you want to add a single effect to multiple sounds, this is where grouping comes in.
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When you group different tracks, for example a kick, snare and hat, to a single mixer channel, you will be able to edit all the sounds in that group, with a single action or plugin. One of the things you can do now is adjusting the volume of all your drums, without messing up the volume differences between the tracks.
First, assign the reference track to its mixer channel (and name it accordingly). Step 4: Choose the Plug-ins. Now you can choose which plug-ins to put on the mixer track. (Generally you should choose the plug-ins depending on what you want to analyze.). Philipp is a self-taught FL-Studio producer. For the past six years he has been making. A bus is an extra track in your multitrack that takes an input from other tracks. It can take as many signals as you'd like to throw at it at any volume you choose. This is the best way to manage your main reverb. You won't always use only one, but there will almost always be a main and it should be controlled from a master reverb bus. First, open the Mixer and add a Fruity Peak Controller to the kick Mixer track. Doing this adds a new internal controller that changes things based on the kick’s volume to FL Studio’s internal controllers list. Step 2: Add and Link Fruity Balance. Next, navigate over to the bass synth’s Mixer track and add a Fruity Balance. NOTE: In the example above Mixer Track 2 is selected and so the Track Send switches, External audio Input / Output options and Mixer Track Properties change to show unique settings for Mixer track 2. Usually the only Mixer track with an external audio output is the Master Mixer track. FL Studio will disable routing options that would create.
Grouping different tracks to a single mixer channel is often used on drums, in the example below I will do the same. For the sake of this tutorial I will only talk about drum tracks, but don’t think it’s limited to drums.
How to create a mixer channel group?
Step 1 – Route all tracks to their own mixer channel.
There are more ways to do this, the most simple one is adjust the number on the left side of the channel rack. My kick is on 1, the hat on 2 and the snare on 3.
Step 1: Assign your tracks to free mixer channels
Step 2 – Create a mixer group
Right click on a mixer channel that’s free and choose “Create Group”. In the example it’s Mixer Channel 5.
Step 3 – Select the mixer channels you want to group.
Hold ctrl and shift and click on mixer channels you want to add to the group. (Click on the name or audio meter.)
Step 4 – Group your channels
Right click on the little arrow of the mixer channel you created at step 2, or use any other free mixer channel you want. Now choose for “Route to this track only”. This will send all the selected sounds to that mixer channel.
Step 3 & 4: Create Mixer Group – Route to this track only
Step 5 – Edit your group
Now you can add filters, effects or do some adjustments to the entire group, without messing up each individual track.
How to use groups?
I usually group all the sounds that “belong together”, so all the drums to a group, all the leads to a group, all the basses and so on. These are called “busses”. This way, when I’m mixing my production, I can adjust the volume of all my drums, without having to adjust each channel and messing up the balance between the different drum sounds.
On my drums group (bus) I almost always do a compression and sometimes some reverb. This way all the drums will get the same room and feeling. On my leads I like to do some effects and automate them through the track. You can also use sidechain this way. The possibilities are endless!
How to remove grouped or routed tracks?
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As I said, it can be a bit hard to find out how grouping/routing works, this also applies to removing routed tracks.
You can simply remove the routing by selecting the little green arrow above the green wire. This will remove the wire and therefore the routing.
Now here’s the catch; you probably lost the sound of the track you removed from the group entirely, while it is still there and playing. This is because you have to route it to the master channel again (that was lost in step 4 when you said “Route to this track only”.
Make sure you have channel selected of which you lost the sound and click the arrow of the master channel.
Route your channel back to the master channel
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Being able to take audio files, decode the transients and pitch data, and then convert this data to MIDI is a super handy feature. And this can be done in FL Studio. For example you could browse through your audio drum loops pull them into FL Studio, extract the note data and then use this converted MIDI pattern with another drum instrument in your song. Or maybe you want to record your song ideas down singing/humming them into a microphone. Then you can convert these audio ideas to MIDI and assign them to other instruments. Let’s take a look at how this is done.
Step 1 – Adding Audio into Edison
First add Edison to an FL slot in the mixer (use F9 to bring up the Mixer if it is not showing). Double-click it to bring up its user interface. Drag and drop an audio file into Edison’s waveform editor.
Now go to the Step Sequencer (use F6 to open the window if it’s not already open), and add an instrument via the Channels menu. I’m going to add an instance of the FL Keys.
Step 2 – Convert Using the Tools Menu
Now jump back to Edison, and go to the Tools menu (the icon for the menu item is a wrench), then choose ‘Convert to Score and Dump to Piano Roll’ under the Analysis submenu. Go back to the Step Sequencer window and notice how FL Studio has placed a pattern in the channel with the instrument.
Step 3 – View Your MIDI in the Piano Roll.
Open this pattern up in the Piano Roll and see how Edison has converted your audio to a MIDI event with different note lengths, pitch data and velocities. You can go in and edit this MIDI data if you want.
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Step 4 – Recording in Audio and Converting It
Alternatively you can record in audio ideas into Edison, and then convert these to MIDI. First make sure you have set up the correct audio input in Mixer. Choose your input on the input source on the mixer.
Then go into Edison, and make sure you have ‘On Input’ enabled.
Then click the Record button and Edison will record in the external audio input. Hum or sing in an idea, and when you have finished hit the stop button. You can playback the audio to check it recorded the idea correctly.
Now do the same steps as mentioned earlier, go to the Tools menu and choose ‘Convert to score and dump to piano roll’
Step 5 – Conclusion
That’s how easy it is to convert your audio files to MIDI. You can take rough audio sketch ideas, convert them to MIDI and then assign them to some of FL Studio’s awesome instruments. Or you can use your collection of audio loops, convert them to MIDI and assign the MIDI to new instruments. This really gives you extra songwriting flexibility.
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