FL Studio 20 Getting Started Manual

STEPSEQUENCER & NOTES

By now you're familiar with some of the ways FL Studio lets you tweak the sound of Sampler

Channel. In this section, we'll show you how some of those effects can be applied to each step or

note separately. Later we'll also show you how to program melodies in the Piano Roll (page 24).

1. Piano roll steps. If you right-click the channel button for the sample, you will get the Piano

roll for that Channel. The Piano roll will show the steps as notes on note C5 aligned with the

grid. Below the note area you can see the vertical lines with circles on top. These show the

value of the target set by the note property selector. Try replicating the Hat pattern above

and notice how much more interesting it sounds when you change the velocity (volume) of the

steps as shown.

2. Target selector. You will see Pan, Velocity (another name for Volume), Release, Filter

cutoff frequency, Filter resonance (Q) and Fine pitch. Though some of these effects were

discussed in the "Tweaking the Channels" section, the difference here is that you can also

tweak the value of these effects for each step separately. Each bar on the Piano roll lower

section sets the value for the single note above it.

Select a target to edit

Right-click to

open the

Piano roll

Drag these bars up and down edit

Step vs Piano roll

preview