FL Studio 20 Getting Started Manual

To add Clips, drag from the ‘Picker Panel’ to an empty area of the Playlist.

3. What's the Point? Now you can assemble a number of patterns together to make a song.

This lets you alter melodies, change beats, insert fills, and reuse some of the early parts of the

song later. The clip tracks show information about the data patterns & clips contain. The It’s

up to you how you want to work but many composers use separate patterns for drums, bass,

lead, etc. so they can work on them separately at first, and then piece the song together in the

Playlist. A good way to see the Playlist used ‘full-on’ is to see the NewStuff.flp or flp’s in the

‘Cool Stuff’ folder in the browser.

4. Data types: Each Clip track can hold unlimited number of Automation Clips, Pattern Clips and

Audio clips. To add a new instance of a clip select the clip to paste using the ‘Picker Panel’ (at

the left of the Playlist) and then click in an empty place inside the tracks or you can drag-and-

drop. Try moving the waves or cutting them with the slice tool. You can find more tutorial

projects explaining how to use them and also plenty of information in the on-line help (focus FL

Studio and press F1). See more info in the chapter Audio Tracks. You can apply automation

envelopes (e.g. to fade the volume in/out on an audio clip) on top of these audio clips.

I get it! The Playlist has a bunch of general purpose ‘Clip tracks’ the controls to the

left of the tracks are for naming and muting. Then the musical notes, sample and

automation data can be laid out in any of the Clip tracks (they are not fussy about

what they contain) easy…I think… what was that again?!