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I clicked on a song by Benn Jordan — I’ve been watching a lot of his vids lately. He is a huge fan of FLS. (Your version of FL Studio might have different demo songs.)<\/p>\n Right click to open, and the song loads.<\/p>\n The gray rectangle in the middle is the Channel Rack. It has the list of all the instruments that are being used in the song. Right click on one of the instrument names and select piano roll to see the midi notes.<\/p>\n Here’s the way it popped up, but I like to change how it looks by making the notes bigger.<\/p>\n The controls to change the size of the notes are a little weird. To make the notes larger, squish this section of the top bar smaller.<\/p>\n To make the notes taller, mouse up and down over this tiny little place in the upper-right corner.<\/p>\n This is as big as they will get.<\/p>\n Here are the tools for working with the notes. I spend most of my time working in the piano roll window, going back and forth between “P” and “E”.<\/p>\n How to get back to the view where you can see the whole song at once? There is a bar of navigation controls at the top of the page. The three I use the most are the Playlist, Piano Roll, and Channel Rack.<\/p>\n Now we are back to the Playlist.<\/p>\n The different multicolored strips are called Patterns. The patterns might be things like an intro, a verse, a chorus, a drum fill, a sound effect. In the Playlist page you can move the Patterns around — repeat them, overlap them.<\/p>\n The controls to make things larger and smaller work here too. Here’s the whole song compressed onto one page. To make the song image “smaller” you pull the squishy bar longer.<\/p>\n And again to vary the vertical dimension, mouse over the teeny-tiny thing in the upper right corner. This is as compressed as the Playlist can get.<\/p>\n When you zoom in close to the Playlist, you can see the midi data. But to edit the notes, you have to get back to the Piano Roll window.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n