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FLStudio’s manual has some bold claims in it…
FL Studio's Piano roll has the well deserved reputation as the best Piano roll in the business.
And…
FL Studio has, arguably, the most powerful Piano roll editor available.
If you’ve read my website much then you know I really rev up when I see claims made about features. I’ll be spending this post, and the following 2 posts discussing MIDI editing/entry which is mostly done in the Piano Roll.
To start with, I’m going to cover the bare basics of Piano Roll usage. Is it really the best?
Other posts in this series:
Take a piano and turn it on its side. Each key is extended horizontally to your right. Little blocks show you when, how long and which keys are hit. When you hit play a playhead moves from left to right and notes are triggered as the playhead passes them.
Piano Rolls usually also have some way to edit ‘metadata’ (information about events) for each notes. Things like velocity (volume), pan, pitch etc..
That’s what it is, but what should it do?
Piano Rolls need to do a few specific things at minimum:
- Add notes
- Delete notes
- Select notes
- Edit multiple selected notes at once
- Mute notes
- Change note’s start time
- Change note’s length
- Display recorded data
- Adjust velocity
- Add/Edit pitch bend
There’s also some advanced features that are expected by most DAW users these days, many of which I cover in a later post:
- Edit to a grid
- Grid often has ‘swing’, which moves specific beats closer to the subsequent beats for a galloping like feel
- Quantize notes (automatically move them to a time grid)
- Constrain to key/scale
- Edit MIDI CC data
- Paint notes (draw in a series notes, often according to a grid, with a single action)
- Zoom in/out quickly
- Support for features like MPE
- Advanced selection tools for selecting notes based on specific attributes such as pitch class, length, velocity, position etc…
- Editing multiple MIDI parts at once
- Colouring notes based on specific attributes like pitch or velocity
- Tools to enter chords easily
- Tools for quickly creating ‘shapes’ of metadata, like a sine wave shaped velocity curve or similar.
- Preview sounds as a note is entered
There’s even more capabilities that various softwares have, however I think that these 2 lists cover the basic expectations of most intermediate music makers (and even some beginners).
In FLStudio you left click to add a note, right click to delete it.
From there you have a number of tools that you can select to delete, mute, select, etc… ootes. These tools are temporarily available with various combinations of shift, alt/option and ctrl/command. When you click to insert a note it uses the last selected note length, unless you hold shift then you can draw the note length by dragging.
The currently viewed note property (in the bottom) can be adjusted with the mousewheel. The note start time can be nudged with the mousewheel.
There’s a nice zoom tool that lets you select an area to view, and then zoom-right-click to back out (but not to your previous zoom!).
Panning around your arrangement is just click-drag the mousewheel.
Two paint tools are available. One of them uses the current snap setting for note length and one uses the last entered length. The Paint Drum Sequencer Mode tool has some extra functionality to work with painted notes as if you’re working with drums (basically just opening the slice tool and holding alt/option to halve the note entry time).
There’s really nothing here that’s groundbreaking functionally. All of these basic functions are available in other DAWs, with similar entry methods.