As a quick side tip, if you’re going to make an automation clip consider selecting a part of the timeline because FL will automatically make the automation the length of your selection!Īnother case where it’s useful and very common is making a pattern unique. For example, if you’re making an automation clip, something we do hundreds of times, instead of right clicking and then going to the “create automation clip” you can instead just hit “a.” It’s so fast that I am often asked about how I did that so quickly since the menu is only visible for a split second. If you hit the underlined letter while the menu is open it will do that thing. As a general rule if you reach for a menu more than 5 times in a single session consider learning its keyboard shortcut. For this reason, I try to leave at least one little space of background as it can be faster sometimes.

You can click in an open space in the work area to bring this up as well. The channel rack in particular is one you will constantly be bringing back and forth. Using the keyboard shortcuts simplifies the process of bringing these menus up and keeps you focused on writing music. However, you will flip between these constantly. These have large buttons at the top to get to these menus. There are a few special ones that if you don’t have down you should get down! They are:

Here are some tips and tricks for achieving a fast, reliable workflow when producing music in FL Studio … 1.

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