The FL Studio Q&A Thread

[nowaysj]

No drivers necessary. The most difficult thing will be to set up the transport properly. Use MMC. And search this forum. Think you'll find some posts by me explaining it.


Other than that, it's just a roll your own situation. Map what you want to what you want....

Think you'll love it, personally. Really good controller as far as I'm concerned.

[benjam]

No drivers necessary. The most difficult thing will be to set up the transport properly. Use MMC. And search this forum. Think you'll find some posts by me explaining it.


Other than that, it's just a roll your own situation. Map what you want to what you want....

Think you'll love it, personally. Really good controller as far as I'm concerned.

Great stuff cheers for that. Another quick question though I read theres a way to map the pads to separate channels. Dont suppose you know how this is done. Ive seen people map them to the FPC but ive never bothered with it.Maybe theres advantages to using the FPC that im not aware of? Cheers again for the helpfulness its about a week til delivery and I cant wait. Had a behringer ucontrol25 for the past year so itll be nice to sit down at a decent bit of kit.

[nowaysj]

That's a little beyond me. What is the purpose of mapping the pads to different channel?

[nowaysj]

Oh, and in regards to the pads... you may be a little disappointed on that front. Expect them to be stiff and unresponsive. You can do a diy mod with electrical tape, or buy a corks from mpcstuff. I did the electrical tape, and they now work reasonably well. I have a padkontrol which is excellent, so I never use the mpk pads.

[benjam]

Yea Ive seen a lot of people complaining about the pads. Gonna try and find some cardboard thats not too thick to fill the gaps. The channel mapping thing: i read that theres a way to assign each pad to a different sampler. Although Ive not seen a tutorial or anyone else doing this.

[nowaysj]

why would you need to use 12 samplers ?

I personally would go for electrical tape on that one. Or the corks. Carboard does not sound like it has the right material properties.

[benjam]

What id normally do is open a totally empty project add say 8 samplers ( 2kicks, 2snares and 4 hats) then arrange in the step sequencer. But I wanted to trigger each sampler ( each single hit) with a different pad. I think that make sense

[nowaysj]

ah, sampler like sampler channel.

Just pop out your fpc. The MPK is built on the MPC tradition, so why not link it up to the FPC!

Alphabet soup!

But 4 realz use that FPC.

If you really want to play and record multiple sampler channels into fl's STEP sequencer, it is possible, but it is difficult.

Go to you midi settings, in the bottom left of the options, select record to step sequencer, or something like that. Then edit each pad to transmit on a different midi channel, THEN select a sampler channel, and then right click each sampler channel that you want to play and record into.

Whammo. Pretty cool, but a bitch to set up. I'd keep a setup in the mpk just for this purpose, and then a more general setup, as this may interfere with some other aspects of the mpk's functionality for general use. Kind of a specific application thing.

It's 5:10 in the am, I may have left a step or two out here!

[benjam]

ah, sampler like sampler channel.

Just pop out your fpc. The MPK is built on the MPC tradition, so why not link it up to the FPC!

Alphabet soup!

But 4 realz use that FPC.

If you really want to play and record multiple sampler channels into fl's STEP sequencer, it is possible, but it is difficult.

Go to you midi settings, in the bottom left of the options, select record to step sequencer, or something like that. Then edit each pad to transmit on a different midi channel, THEN select a sampler channel, and then right click each sampler channel that you want to play and record into.

Whammo. Pretty cool, but a bitch to set up. I'd keep a setup in the mpk just for this purpose, and then a more general setup, as this may interfere with some other aspects of the mpk's functionality for general use. Kind of a specific
application thing.It's 5:10 in the am, I may have left a step or two out here!

Honestly youve been a massive help mate cheers

[s3f]

Hey everyone, another question about MIDI in FL studio: I was creating multilinks to my Korg Nanopad and accidentally pressed the wrong pad. Is there any way to delete multilinks? I know I can just reassign the pad but I actually don't want it to be assigned to anything. According to the FL manual you're supposed to delete "..\FL Studio\System\Config\Mapping\Generic\(generic controller)\channelsettings.flmapping" but for some reason I don't have that file. Anyone know how to do this without reinstalling FL?

[benjam]

So got my MPK today and and five keys are broken. The plastic hooks holding them down snapped in transit i think. Needless to say Im pissed off big time. Dunno why Im even posting this but its better than going on a crazed killing spree. Fuck

[nowaysj]

That sucks bro. I recently purchased a vintage eq. I was waiting for it one day. Heard a loud thump outside my door. Cocksucking delivery dood just dropped the box from chest height onto the ground.

Opened it up, and the eq was dead. Cocksuckers.

[benjam]

That sucks bro. I recently purchased a vintage eq. I was waiting for it one day. Heard a loud thump outside my door. Cocksucking delivery dood just dropped the box from chest height onto the ground.

Opened it up, and the eq was dead. Cocksuckers.

Gutted I know where your coming from Im pretty sure it must of been the delivery guy as the seller wanted me to go collect it. Bastards

[nowaysj]

I'd file a claim with the shipper. Get them to either buy you a new one, or fix it. What medium did you use to buy this, like ebay, paypall, credit card, what?

[benjam]

It was by paypal over ebay. The seller was a fool though. He wrapped the box up in a shitty bin liner it didnt look like it was worth 250 quid, no wonder they didnt take care of it. When I sold some drum gear last month it was properly wrapped with extremely fragile written all over it just in case.

[nowaysj]

If it is through paypal and ebay, the seller is on the hook if the item arrives damaged. Either get him to take it back, pay to fix it, or pay for another one. He then can seek reimbursement from the shipper for the loss.

[logik12]

Hi so I am really worried about loosing my fl studio projects in a computer crash. Is there a way to backup project files onto an external hard drive so that if I were to have to wipe my computer clean and reinstall fl studio I could get my projects back into fl studio.

[Eridu]

just copy the project files like normal files + all the audio files.

[logik12]

unless im doing something wrong, that just makes a shortcut?

[street_astrologist]

unless im doing something wrong, that just makes a shortcut?

Yeah, you have to copy/paste. Go to FL Studio 9/Data folder and click once on Projects to highlight it. hit Ctrl + C to copy the Projects folder. Then go to your external drive's backup folder and hit Ctrl + V to paste it. Windows has an annoying "feature" of creating a shortcut when you drag a folder between drives with the mouse.

Copy your personal sound library of drumkits/instruments/samples to the backup drive while you're at it (.flp files do include sounds but you want to back it up anyway).