This is my last video in this studio space. Next week will be in my new studio. I’ve been here since the start of the lockdown in Scotland (in March). Stay tuned for my future videos to see the new studio space I’m making :) Michael
Mike mike mike I swear you're good hearted person, let go everywhere you I will follow you coz you change me from zero and now going to hero, but I didn't show you what I have learn from you since and now I am going to shoot videos to let you know that I did it. Stay blessed.
I have an issue where i set a peak controller for a delay with reverb in a vocal ( to fill up gaps between phrases and the transition between the hook and the verse ) but fruity peak controller kicks in too quick so it doesn't let the reverb play for a few milliseconds or so and you can hear how it shut down the reverb volume completely when the vocal plays, Any ideas how to fix this? is there a setting like ''Attack'' for the peak controller?
When someone asks me how did u learn to produce music I say - “Michael taught me” Michael u have no idea how many people u have helped to walk in the music industry... Hats off to you my friend 🙏🏻🙏🏻
CloudScape no I haven’t .....(2 times) only in the giveaway vid and this one ......I thought he hadn’t read this comment so to get his attention I just wrote the comment once again 😛😅😅
Jesus I've been using FL studio for 14 years now and I am still learning a ton of tips and tricks that I just never figured out as a young lad. Bless you Michael
@@nesobre I do different genres under different names, everything is collected on momomau.com My current best works are all under the name Dynastor, so please check out my latest release with Valotihkuu dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-fairytales (also on spotify etc) Otherwise if you like the following genres, these are my names: House - Tamakastania Techno - Octafecta Ambient - Bzaurie Psychedelic chillout - Aeonium
@@thaDjMauz Hey I checked out your work, you have a unique style of music i never hear. Very high quality stuff. Are you doing music for yourself or making money, or both? Any tips on where to sell? Thanks
I've been using FL studio for years, but its always nice to check out beginner/introduction videos to certain aspects. These ALWAYS contain nuggets of information you previously didn't know. Very helpful. What a time to be alive. 10 years ago you could only dream of channels and tutorials like these.
you can also find comments that say you can actually modify the shape of the function of the controller in terms of the Input pretty much the part about "link controller" being able to change the actual sensitivity or curvature of effects yummy especially useful when you want an effect to do the exact opposite of another, or to make the steepness change while being in terms of the same automation clip!
After watching this video I'm having a feeling that Michael is gonna reveal all the pro tips and tricks of fl studio in 2021...and I'm so excited for that!!
This is Michael. 2:30 minutes in and already solved the single most annoying default feature found in FL Studio. Thank you kind sir. Now will continue watching the video :)
Thank you so much for delivering all this valuable info for free. I binge watch and learn as much as I can from your videos. First I started using FL in late 2020 for beatmaking only , then my super old desktop computer with a super old version of Protools stopped working. Never took professional lessons for music making or engineering. I used Protools 6 since 2004. Lol. So this will be my first year releasing music recorded on Fl Studio. Your tutorials are a big part of the reason I'm confident enough to do so.🙏🏾💯
Hey guys. in case your version of FL studio doesn't have the option to "delete initial value" within the right-click window, you should go in your browser (which is usually in your left), open "Current project" and find "Initialized controls". You can delete it from there. Thanks for the tutorial, Michael. Awesome job as always. Love from Brazil, Lucas
Thank you for this well-organized, easy to understand tutorial. I was tearing my hair out figuring out how to get this functionality to work with Serum and it was right under my nose. You're the bomb!
Thanks for this, I've been using FL making Hip Hop beats for 10 years+. I've recently stepped into making Electronic music and noticed over 40% of it is automation. I've been searching for a good automation tutorial for a while. Thanks again
Dude! I'm pretty new to FL Studio and it's so much more advanced than what I started on (Soundtrap) that watching and incorporating these techniques is opening up a whole new world for me. Thank you for this.
Thank you, I left the slide on and it was taking me forever to figure out how to lock the automation points in place. The simplest solutions cause the biggest delays in my progression to being a great producer. 🙇🙌
I'm mid studio session and was trying to work out how to do something. A quick Google search brought me straight to what I was looking for in your video here. Just dropping a comment to say thankyou! You have helped my workflow and today's creative flow!
After a couple years using FL, you covered everything I knew in the first minutes and then explained a lot of new things I didn't know. Honestly, "thank you" is just not enough Michael!!
I've been using FL Studio since FL 5. It's so great to have a detailed overview of all the features and controls that were introduced later or I either didn't learned about all of these years. You hit the Venn-Diagram cross-section between newbies, advanced and adepts.
I just wanna say thank you man, for all your time teaching us how to basically everything about FL. I know there's a lot of people say the same thing as I do, but ohh man.... you have no idea how much I have improved on FL Studio because of you. I am very grateful to you!!! Thank you so much!
Metal/rock musician here,i think FL is really one of the best DAWs,bought the 20 recently,its amazing even yes for metal music,its just so friendly and you can focus on the creativity and music not only on how to do this or that Also i find your tutorials amongst the best,even if we like different music and produce different,i rly find your tips amazing and use them in my music,since im a natural player and writer only,production is not my best thing,but im getting better
Bro... Bro... I just don't know what to say... I will just say I'm glad I came accross your YT Channel, this channel is making Production Journey better day by day... May God Bless you so much for sharing knowledge free...
Lovely video as always! Can't wait to see your new studio! Hope that happens soon, then again, yes- the lock down! Please stay safe and healthy! Also, please try to do a tutorial video on Sakura! :-)
Hey micheal your tutorials are really straight to the point and easy to follow, but i have a little thing to add to the automation tutorial. if you have a 3rd party plugin and you want to automate any button, i have a quicker idea, for example if you use Autotune 8.1 from Antares load the plugin on a mixer track then you go to the settings of that plugin and press on the option "Make editor thumbnail" your fruity loops will take a snapshot of every single button inside of that plugin. and via the fruity loops browser you then go to the effects and every single button of your 3rd party plugin should be listed , you should be able to right klik any button name and then you can select create automation clip on that. thats how i automate my 3rd party plugins. anyway good video as always
Range Limiting is my favourite as well, it's so convenient :) I'm actually using it a lot on Cutoffs etc from VSTs Thanks Michael for, again, a great video! :-)
I make orchestral music, and I tend to mostly use "Edit Events in Piano Roll" to automate. In Orchestral Music it's not uncommon to automate multiple parameters (Dynamics, Expression, sometimes Vibrato or Legato Speed) to keep things realistic and correct sounding, and it's much better to draw a unique automation line each time for each parameter, especially because each parameter doesn't respond equally. -- if I used automation clips I'd already have countless automation clips in my playlist!
I agree! For your purpose the event editor in the Piano roll is ideal. I remember when I was editing a strings patch in detail with expression, vibrato, tension etc and there were just too many automation clips!
@@inthemix Haha absolutely! Now multiply that by 10 for instance if you wanna have multiple strings, brasswinds and woodwinds! That'd be a nightmare haha
@@sewerynhabdank-wojewodzki4403 There is none as far as I know -- as you can see in the Video, automation clips are curve based, but events are hard coded values. tried converting automation clips to events before, to no avail. But maybe someone else knows more about it, i wouldn't get my hopes up though haha
Cheers Man :-D Great tut as ALWAYS :-D I Never see any of you videos and walk away thinking; "I knew all that!", hasn't happened yet anyway. Thank you Michael
I wanted a video on automation for a while now so thank youuu so much, las year i started using fl studio and your videos have been more than helpful, much love from Argentina :)
This is amazing, thank you so much! I always think I knew everything already but there are always these really useful little features that make the workflow much better :D
You're like fine wine. you get better with time. You're like an FL Studio God or something. Yet another outstanding tutorial. Don't stop. One day, you might become CEO of Image-Line. ☺
if you ever use automation for pitch or volume, particularly on plugins that don't in themselves have automation smoothing, I suggest going into the project settings and adjusting your timebase from 96ppq to 960ppq. Timebase is the way FL handles all timed events like note placement and automation and it's measured in pulses per quarter. the default is 96 pulses per quarter, which is 24 pulses per step (because 1 step is 1/4 of a quarter note, which means 16th notes) This is also why in the note properties window in piano roll has duration bar:step:tick, and for tick it is by default 0-23, but if you go to options > project general settings and you change timebase from 96ppq to 960ppq, the bar:step:tick will have 0-239 for ticks. This is the same time division for automation clips, and is the timing that it samples automation clip values at. In native FL plugins like sytrus, on X/Y controllers there is a toggle-able smoothing option, which assumes this and will linearly move from one sample point to the next, but with smoothing disabled, it will snap on this tick grid. you can test this by using a basic sytrus patch with volume linked to X and smoothing unchecked, then do a 0% to 100% automation in the time of 1/16th note. to make it more audible, change your bpm to 10. the automation will be square-stepped. if you adjust the PPQ it will squarestep at different rates. tl;dr you should always automate volume and pitch with plugin-internal envelopes and not automation, unless you alter the timebase. for other effects than pitch/volume, this doesn't matter as much, it's just particularly jarring in that situation.
Thank you very much for sharing this :) im not at this skill level yet with song making, producing and mastering but hopefully some day i will be and this will help me get better
This is my last video in this studio space. Next week will be in my new studio. I’ve been here since the start of the lockdown in Scotland (in March). Stay tuned for my future videos to see the new studio space I’m making :)
Michael
Ooh, I'm excited to see the new studio!
Mike mike mike I swear you're good hearted person, let go everywhere you I will follow you coz you change me from zero and now going to hero, but I didn't show you what I have learn from you since and now I am going to shoot videos to let you know that I did it. Stay blessed.
Best fl tutorial channel ❤️
Sounds great, stay healthy and safe!
Yay
15 years with FL for me.. and that ‘delete initial value’ tip just changed my life
Yeh, that shortcut only came out a few weeks ago :)
Thats really new for me too..
Its magical..
15 Years!! Show me your work please, you must be very good at FL
I have an issue where i set a peak controller for a delay with reverb in a vocal ( to fill up gaps between phrases and the transition between the hook and the verse ) but fruity peak controller kicks in too quick so it doesn't let the reverb play for a few milliseconds or so and you can hear how it shut down the reverb volume completely when the vocal plays, Any ideas how to fix this? is there a setting like ''Attack'' for the peak controller?
1.5 years of me with FL & I understand what you've been through... 😂😂
When someone asks me how did u learn to produce music I say - “Michael taught me”
Michael u have no idea how many people u have helped to walk in the music industry...
Hats off to you my friend 🙏🏻🙏🏻
true. Michael for President
straight facts here
100% true
But wait a min, why do you comment the same thing in almost every vid of Mike? 🤔
CloudScape no I haven’t .....(2 times)
only in the giveaway vid and this one ......I thought he hadn’t read this comment so to get his attention I just wrote the comment once again 😛😅😅
One extra tip: highlight a section (x axis), then create the automation clip & it will be only for that length, not the entire production. 👍😎👍
Extra extra tip: deleting control points is extra easy and quick if you hold the RIGHT ALT key and left click them.
This is a great one. Thanks.
64 people were creating a whole project length automation? damn.
@@watcher203 I knew about this before,but I want this comment to be higher in the comment section so others can see it.
My mind dude
I always have a MIND BLOWN moment in each of your vids (4:08). Thanks, Michael.
Been producing in FL for a long time, but never knew about that slide toggle. So helpful.
Did it by accident one day lol
Jesus I've been using FL studio for 14 years now and I am still learning a ton of tips and tricks that I just never figured out as a young lad. Bless you Michael
14 Years!! Show me your work please.
@@nesobre I do different genres under different names, everything is collected on momomau.com
My current best works are all under the name Dynastor, so please check out my latest release with Valotihkuu
dronarivm.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-fairytales (also on spotify etc)
Otherwise if you like the following genres, these are my names:
House - Tamakastania
Techno - Octafecta
Ambient - Bzaurie
Psychedelic chillout - Aeonium
@@thaDjMauz Hey I checked out your work, you have a unique style of music i never hear. Very high quality stuff. Are you doing music for yourself or making money, or both? Any tips on where to sell? Thanks
@@thaDjMauz You're music sounds really nice and relaxing
Thank you for the "Delete Initial Value" tip. I hit that about a month ago and wound up having to reroute to a new insert to get around it.
I've been using FL studio for years, but its always nice to check out beginner/introduction videos to certain aspects. These ALWAYS contain nuggets of information you previously didn't know. Very helpful. What a time to be alive. 10 years ago you could only dream of channels and tutorials like these.
you can also find comments that say you can actually modify the shape of the function of the controller in terms of the Input
pretty much the part about "link controller" being able to change the actual sensitivity or curvature of effects
yummy
especially useful when you want an effect to do the exact opposite of another, or to make the steepness change while being in terms of the same automation clip!
Dude, I've already been making music for a little less than two years and I learned a lot from this. These tutorials are amazing help. ^-^
After watching this video I'm having a feeling that Michael is gonna reveal all the pro tips and tricks of fl studio in 2021...and I'm so excited for that!!
You know the person who programmed FL Studio I appreciate you man
As a complete noob to FL studio your no nonsense clearly explained tutorials are priceless. Thank you very much indeed.
I'm few months into production and Autiomation are things I am struggling with, well not anymore after watching this! Thank you dude
This is Michael. 2:30 minutes in and already solved the single most annoying default feature found in FL Studio.
Thank you kind sir.
Now will continue watching the video :)
You’re an angel .. just wanna say I genuinely benefit from your tutorials especially that I’ve been a strict FL studio user for a while now
"4.9 is close enough!"
- Michael (2021)
Lol
i was literally just thinking about looking for a tutorial for automations and i saw this in my subscriptions
I watch a ton of FL youtube producers. You are one of the best. Your videos are an insta-click. Thanks for dropping the knowledge!
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - What is automation?
1:10 - Creating an automation clip
1:45 - Control points
3:05 - Deleting clips
3:40 - 3rd Party Plugins
4:15 - Cutting and Joining Clips
5:25 - Smoothing Automation
6:25 - Range Limiting (My Favourite Tip)
8:45 - Thanks for watching
Thank you for your service!
Thank you so much for delivering all this valuable info for free. I binge watch and learn as much as I can from your videos. First I started using FL in late 2020 for beatmaking only , then my super old desktop computer with a super old version of Protools stopped working. Never took professional lessons for music making or engineering. I used Protools 6 since 2004. Lol. So this will be my first year releasing music recorded on Fl Studio. Your tutorials are a big part of the reason I'm confident enough to do so.🙏🏾💯
Hey guys.
in case your version of FL studio doesn't have the option to "delete initial value" within the right-click window, you should go in your browser (which is usually in your left), open "Current project" and find "Initialized controls". You can delete it from there.
Thanks for the tutorial, Michael. Awesome job as always.
Love from Brazil,
Lucas
I owe you so much! 90% of my knowledge comes from your tutorials. There are not enough words in the world to thank you.
I didn't know about the last one, thank michael!
Thank you for this well-organized, easy to understand tutorial. I was tearing my hair out figuring out how to get this functionality to work with Serum and it was right under my nose. You're the bomb!
You just saved me a ton of time when dealing with vocals, thank you so much
Thanks for this, I've been using FL making Hip Hop beats for 10 years+. I've recently stepped into making Electronic music and noticed over 40% of it is automation. I've been searching for a good automation tutorial for a while. Thanks again
Dude! I'm pretty new to FL Studio and it's so much more advanced than what I started on (Soundtrap) that watching and incorporating these techniques is opening up a whole new world for me. Thank you for this.
As a newbie, I'm just super grateful to get the chance to express myself with music, let alone receive your help❤ thank you for sharing your wisdom !!
Thank you, I left the slide on and it was taking me forever to figure out how to lock the automation points in place. The simplest solutions cause the biggest delays in my progression to being a great producer. 🙇🙌
I'm mid studio session and was trying to work out how to do something. A quick Google search brought me straight to what I was looking for in your video here.
Just dropping a comment to say thankyou! You have helped my workflow and today's creative flow!
After a couple years using FL, you covered everything I knew in the first minutes and then explained a lot of new things I didn't know. Honestly, "thank you" is just not enough Michael!!
I've been using FL Studio since FL 5. It's so great to have a detailed overview of all the features and controls that were introduced later or I either didn't learned about all of these years. You hit the Venn-Diagram cross-section between newbies, advanced and adepts.
Bro this is why Im subscribed to your channel. All you teach is money $$ because we save a lot of time and time is money.
Thanks a lot for this tutorial! You really helped me to fix a couple of nasty issues. I never thought it could be that simple.
Cheers mate. You truly are the face of FL Studio and a legend.
Man this is crazy! Two days ago I was looking for a video like this from you (because you’re a great teacher), then BOOM it’s made lol
The range limiting is my favourite tool too
I use it all the time
Thanks a lot for covering this !
I always expect to learn a lot with a single InTheMix video, and you have never failed me with that expectation
In my opinion this channel is the most useful for fl studio users. Love to watch and learn. Thank you❤️
Wow amazing video really needed that.
BTW Congratulations for the new album .
I just wanna say thank you man, for all your time teaching us how to basically everything about FL.
I know there's a lot of people say the same thing as I do, but ohh man.... you have no idea how much I have improved on FL Studio because of you. I am very grateful to you!!! Thank you so much!
Such useful tips here. 🔥
Metal/rock musician here,i think FL is really one of the best DAWs,bought the 20 recently,its amazing even yes for metal music,its just so friendly and you can focus on the creativity and music not only on how to do this or that
Also i find your tutorials amongst the best,even if we like different music and produce different,i rly find your tips amazing and use them in my music,since im a natural player and writer only,production is not my best thing,but im getting better
I've used FL Studio for over a year and a half but I still didn't know half of these! Thanks for your amazing, helpful content
Bro... Bro... I just don't know what to say... I will just say I'm glad I came accross your YT Channel, this channel is making Production Journey better day by day... May God Bless you so much for sharing knowledge free...
There is something beautiful about these tutorials ;)
Lovely video as always! Can't wait to see your new studio! Hope that happens soon, then again, yes- the lock down! Please stay safe and healthy! Also, please try to do a tutorial video on Sakura! :-)
You always say thank you for watching but actually I want to thank you for all the knowledge you give in your videos
Hey micheal your tutorials are really straight to the point and easy to follow, but i have a little thing to add to the automation tutorial. if you have a 3rd party plugin and you want to automate any button, i have a quicker idea, for example if you use Autotune 8.1 from Antares load the plugin on a mixer track then you go to the settings of that plugin and press on the option "Make editor thumbnail" your fruity loops will take a snapshot of every single button inside of that plugin. and via the fruity loops browser you then go to the effects and every single button of your 3rd party plugin should be listed , you should be able to right klik any button name and then you can select create automation clip on that. thats how i automate my 3rd party plugins. anyway good video as always
Thanks for this refresher. I completely forgot of using slide mode with automation clips. This will save a lot of time.
Good tips man. I've been trying to use more automation lately.
Range Limiting is my favourite as well, it's so convenient :)
I'm actually using it a lot on Cutoffs etc from VSTs
Thanks Michael for, again, a great video! :-)
THANK YOU!!!! as a starting producer everything was explained in a way that was crystal clear for me, keep up the amazing work!
Bless you for creating a list of timestamps / table of contents for your videos!
Honestly this channel is just such a blessing!
That min/max range and copy/paste value at the end: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Learned ALOT of things that aways causing me trouble. Thanks for this. Hope it helps new producers cause im struggling with automation for years
The Last tip was Pure Gold Thank you so much
Best production/mixing tutorials using FL. Keep up the good work!
Changing the range of automation clips is pretty poggers thanks dude!
You always come clutch man 🙏🏽 I clicked other people’s videos but they ain’t like you ; you the source man thank you 💯
Thank you for making this video, Michael. This information will help my know how to use them better. I use these things all the time.
This is so useful! i will probably watch it again cause i wont remember everything 😁
OH yes please! Nice tutorial as always. Your smooth voice makes it so much better. Such ASMR. 😀
in the mix, best fl tutorials and mixing on youtube!
I make orchestral music, and I tend to mostly use "Edit Events in Piano Roll" to automate. In Orchestral Music it's not uncommon to automate multiple parameters (Dynamics, Expression, sometimes Vibrato or Legato Speed) to keep things realistic and correct sounding, and it's much better to draw a unique automation line each time for each parameter, especially because each parameter doesn't respond equally. -- if I used automation clips I'd already have countless automation clips in my playlist!
I agree! For your purpose the event editor in the Piano roll is ideal. I remember when I was editing a strings patch in detail with expression, vibrato, tension etc and there were just too many automation clips!
@@inthemix Haha absolutely! Now multiply that by 10 for instance if you wanna have multiple strings, brasswinds and woodwinds! That'd be a nightmare haha
BTW - do you know if there is a way to convert events to automation and/or back?
@@sewerynhabdank-wojewodzki4403 There is none as far as I know -- as you can see in the Video, automation clips are curve based, but events are hard coded values. tried converting automation clips to events before, to no avail. But maybe someone else knows more about it, i wouldn't get my hopes up though haha
@@Crimzan4 on the piano roll, go to edit menu and then: Convert to automation clip
That range scaling is quite clever. Thank you.
Thank you for the tutorial. I have learned a lot from your videos! 😀
Just a tutorial idea: How to make your music sound fuller
just love all your videos. Really appreciate it.
Wow thanks. Automation was a n annoyance because of the slide. Plus the range limit, i didn't know i needed that until now. ❤️❤️
Very informative bro. I've been using fl studio since 2002 and I always learn something watching your videos.
We need more of this kind of videos 🙏
I use automation on every beat but you're on another level my man
Cheers Man :-D Great tut as ALWAYS :-D I Never see any of you videos and walk away thinking; "I knew all that!", hasn't happened yet anyway. Thank you Michael
I wanted a video on automation for a while now so thank youuu so much, las year i started using fl studio and your videos have been more than helpful, much love from Argentina :)
Thank you for these helpful tips! :)
That last tip tho 🔥
This is amazing, thank you so much! I always think I knew everything already but there are always these really useful little features that make the workflow much better :D
I haven't even gone past the add and I already liked it
The last thing is very useful for controlling range! Nice tip! Thanks!
You uploaded the video on my birthday !!! Thank you Michael. Stay Safe.
You are THE most helpful person I've found when it comes to tutorials for fl.
I am very grateful 🙏
Thank you
You’re welcome. I’m just doing my part :)
You're like fine wine. you get better with time. You're like an FL Studio God or something. Yet another outstanding tutorial. Don't stop. One day, you might become CEO of Image-Line. ☺
Your videos are extremely helpful thx so much
That slide thing, and merging auto, is a huge timesaver. TY
Ur videos are always useful and to the point… no bs… ur amazing
2:20 Thank you so much, I got so annoyed by automation in FL but it is apparently just a feature I can turn off.
The man behind I learned using FL 🙏🙏🙏
I think im in love with your youtube channel in a musical way.
Now I finally understand how to truly remove automations. Thank you.
The best youtube channel!!!!
Is reference in my studies!!!!
Been making FL automation for a while now... didn't even know some of that stuff, wow. Thanks!
Always learn something new from these, thanks.
This was so behind my arknoledgement n so mesmerising
Thank u so much for sharing this knowledge
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Thank you very much! I haven't found a more useful channel before!
if you ever use automation for pitch or volume, particularly on plugins that don't in themselves have automation smoothing, I suggest going into the project settings and adjusting your timebase from 96ppq to 960ppq. Timebase is the way FL handles all timed events like note placement and automation and it's measured in pulses per quarter. the default is 96 pulses per quarter, which is 24 pulses per step (because 1 step is 1/4 of a quarter note, which means 16th notes) This is also why in the note properties window in piano roll has duration bar:step:tick, and for tick it is by default 0-23, but if you go to options > project general settings and you change timebase from 96ppq to 960ppq, the bar:step:tick will have 0-239 for ticks. This is the same time division for automation clips, and is the timing that it samples automation clip values at. In native FL plugins like sytrus, on X/Y controllers there is a toggle-able smoothing option, which assumes this and will linearly move from one sample point to the next, but with smoothing disabled, it will snap on this tick grid. you can test this by using a basic sytrus patch with volume linked to X and smoothing unchecked, then do a 0% to 100% automation in the time of 1/16th note. to make it more audible, change your bpm to 10. the automation will be square-stepped. if you adjust the PPQ it will squarestep at different rates.
tl;dr you should always automate volume and pitch with plugin-internal envelopes and not automation, unless you alter the timebase. for other effects than pitch/volume, this doesn't matter as much, it's just particularly jarring in that situation.
Thank you very much for sharing this :)
im not at this skill level yet with song making, producing and mastering but hopefully some day i will be and this will help me get better
Very useful beginner guide! I wish this video was out when I started producing 😂