FL Studio 20 Getting Started Manual

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2. What are Steps for? Click a step to activate it, this tells FL Studio to trigger the instrument at
that point in the bar or loop. For instance, steps 1, 5, 9, and 13 in the 1
st
Kick Channel are
selected, telling FL Studio to play the kick drum sound four times during the loop. If you think
of each group of four steps as a single beat, FL Studio will play the sound at the start of each
beat. Try changing the pattern of steps in the Kick Channel. If you need to turn a step off,
right-click it. Once you've got the steps to light-up like the picture below, press the play switch
to hear what you've created.
When programming patterns use pattern
mode. FL Studio will then play the selected
pattern.
Mute, Pan &
Volume
A pattern
Selector