You can see the pencil icon at the top of the tool bar, and it should be highlighted in orange. You can use the piano roll to create the chords and notes for your songs.īy default the pencil tool is already highlighted. This is the place that you deal with midi notes. Then press F7 on your keyboard, and the Piano Roll will open up. Go back to the channel rack and make sure that the FL Keys instrument has the green highlight next to it. This will open up the FL Keys instrument. To do that, you need click the + icon at the bottom of the channel rack, and choose the FL Keys instrument from the section labeled MISC. Let’s load in the FL Keys instrument for this example. This is probably the most common way to create notes and chords in piano roll.įirst in FL Studio you have to load in an instrument that is capable of playing multiple notes, something like a piano or a synth.
Midi Packs can be used as a way to shortcut the process. Your computer keyboard can be turned into a substitute midi keyboard in FL Studio. The Stamp Tool in the piano roll to place chords. You can use the Paint Tool in the piano roll to paint in notes and chords. The Pencil Tool in the piano roll to draw in notes and chords. Here is a list of the different ways you still create midi notes without a midi keyboard: A midi keyboard is just a device that helps translate the notes on a piano surface, but you can use the built in piano roll and tools to create all the notes and chords you need. There are many tools that are built into FL studio that will allow you to work with midi notes without having access to a midi keyboard. We’ll examine a few different ways that you can still work in FL Studio without a midi keyboard, plus we’ll cover a bonus way that can shortcut your process even more!Ĭan you use FL Studio Without a Midi Keyboard? I can remember researching for hours and finding all kinds of articles on the essentials that you need to start producing.Īnd that can you leave you with questions, like can I use FL Studio without a midi keyboard? Yes, you can use FL Studio several ways without a keyboard, including using the pencil, paint brush and stamp tools to create notes and chords in the piano roll, as well as utilizing your computer keyboard to substitute as a midi keyboard. More info here.It’s confusing to figure out all the things that you might need to get when you start producing music. PS: Want to learn FL Studio Shortcuts in a more efficient way? Check the Inside Audio FL Studio Shortcut Mousepad. Share it with us in the comment section below. What’s your best shortcut key to use in the piano roll? After quantization, the notes will be snapped to grid. One way to fix this is use this shortcut key to quantize the notes. The notes recorded might get a little messy and they’re all over the place. If you’re a classically trained musician, you might prefer to write your melody by playing with your MIDI keyboard. To fully know how this shortcut key works, click here to visit the previous article. This shortcut enables ghost channels in your piano roll. If it seems familiar to you, that is because I mentioned this shortcut key before in the previous article on how to stay in key while writing your melodies. It’ll automatically highlight all the notes for you. Now all you have to do is to press 2 keys (Ctrl + A) on your keyboard. When you want to highlight all the notes of the melody, you’ll probably right click and drag the timeline to highlight all the note just like what’s shown in the first picture (I used to do that before discovering this shortcut key). You can see the melody got transposed down 1 semitone as I used this shortcut key. You can easily transpose the melody up or down one semitone using this shortcut key. This shortcut key is used to transpose the melody in semitones. This one is quite similar to the first shortcut key but a little bit different. You can easily switch the octave of the melody with this shortcut key. Let’s say that you writing a melody for your song but it sounds too low in pitch, this is the time when this shortcut key comes to play. Let me show you my TOP 5 life-changing shortcut keys to be used in the piano roll. 
If you are a FL Studio user (or else you won’t check this article out), we all can agree that FL Studio has the best piano roll compared to the other DAWs in term of workflow.īut are you sure that you’re using to its max potential? Without a great melody, your song won’t feel alive and cannot connect with the audience.
They say melody is one of the most important elements in a song.
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