its okay to use 5 soundgoodizers

5 soundgoodizers on the c setting is actually perfect
not turned up (unless you want to do whatever you want)
its basically the same as using 3 OTTs in ableton
it really brings out the top end shine on some sytrus patches
I've got one thats just a sine with a volume envelope bringing in the harmonics and you can tell the sound is there but its really quiet
this perfectly levels it up and makes it nice and even. makes the chorus sound greasy
I honestly never messed around with soundgoodizer because I thought itw as a noob tool for people who didn't want to get into the sauce.
but it delivers
5 is also something that i wouldn't dare to do
you'd think it would be too much but its not
one caveat to add about this though is just like with maximus the lookahead on the compressor introduces latency which in version 10 FL on linux mint I don't think they did any plugin delay compensation (PDC) so you manually need to shift it.
normally in edison when you resample using 'on play mode' the loop markers line up with your time selection, in this case you'll need to go in and shift them to the start of the transient manually to get clean loops.

what was in my sytrus patch?
starting 3 octaves down at c8 (fl counts backwards from c5 for some reason)
2 into 1 going out to filter 1.
3 into 2
for the ratios:
op 1 = 2
op 2 = 4
op 3 = 64 a triangle wave
the envelopes:
op1 vol is the shortest tempo synced triangle (curving inward)
op3 vol is 4 bar zig zag triangles
op3 provides alot of the variation to the high harmonics when sustained. Its really important that it all goes through the bandpass filter to mellow out the tops.
problem is it gets a little too mellow thats where the 5 soundgoodizers come in..

edison multi purpose envelope

cross fading with the mpe
this is a deep cut secret fl trick. probably could be used for comping takes too

fm8 waveforms for sytrus

xenowave posted this in the FL forum its gold

those formant waves are sick you I think you can make them by rm'ing a saw wave in unipolar mode? anyway its wicked because normally you can't fm something that has rm applied in sytrus so it opens up some cool sound design possibilities

you don't need a fancy sampler

in fl studio i would use fruity soundfont player for multi sampled insturnents and drum kits. Sometimes i create layers, set and split children to play them from 1 midi lane (newer fl finally got around to letting you include samplers in patcher so you can use vfx splitter or set up key zone splits).

• in settings set omnipreview to 1

this lets you play everything in tbe channel rack at once!

understanding FL Studios Mapping controller formulas

wordpress site explaining it

FL Maximus compression envelopes

this really helps you understand how this plugin works.

I broke wine again somehow (raspberry pi4)

I broke wine on my raspberry pi
but switched harddrives and found that hangover actually ran fl v 10 better than v 20. it could run plugins and the gui wasnt all screwed up like before. had the opposite problem before where 20 ran better than 10 but the big trade off was it would freeze if i tried to run anything but stock plugins. part of the fix was using x instead of wayland and switching audio to pulse and installing the asio drivers that come with fl v 20. but im not entirely sure because when i tried to duplicate the results on a separate hard drive audio was glitchy again. I used cadence to bridge pulseaudio and alsa to jack but im not sure entirely if thats what fixed it. I will retry with fl 24.1 the october archived link from the imageline forum because 24.2 on mint wasnt working. 24.1 was good

• arandr has been renamed
• its now called raindrop

Drum Synthesis in Sytrus - Xenowave

This tutuorial is gold

slice on grid and randomize - Edison scripts for FL

Audio Scripts

put them in /Documents/Image-Line/FL-Studio/Settings/Audio scripts

4 things I learned today in FL studio

1. 'punch in' recording using edisons 'on play mode'
2. step edit can do chords
3. stereo glitch/halftime effects with insta looper
4. easy taurus organ pedals is secretly an acid monster

ctrl e in the mixer pulls up edison
set it to ON PLAY MODE (mentioned at 4:37) it records to the length of your patterns in the playlist creating markers as it repeats
you can use arrow keys to quickly jump between recorded takes and pick the best one

Other Edison Modes

Do i pick 'input' 'on input?'
In Edison on input starts recording after recording reaches a certain threshold,
input does that BUT ALSO stops and starts again based on that threshold
its perfect for doing multiple takes auto truncating the silence.
- to the far right in edison that VU meter is actually a fader!!
if you drag up/down the green selection shows you the threshold being set at that level

Step Edit Mode

ctrl e in the piano roll enters step edit mode
you can enter chords in step edit mode!!
usually you use the numpad to change the size and enter in rests
to make this work on a laptop:
click the mouse to the start of the bar
ctrl e to enter step edit and play your chord on your midi keyboard
ctrl b to duplicate the note, shift left/right to move it into place.
at the end of the bar it doesn't let you click to position the mouse cursor
an easy work around is just to add a dummy note beyond the length of the clip to extend it. Make it outside of the range of your chord so its easy to delete afterward.
A more complicated way is maybe using ctrl enter to create a time selection and duplicating and deleting it.

Instalooper

Instalooper on plugins 4 free
Its annoying to use with the mouse, almost gave up on it because midi notes also toggle instead of momentary. but using a midi controller that sends cc set to momentary it actually works properly.
I tracked down smart electronix supatrigga vst ehh its okay. I remember it being better. I prefer dblue glitch
right click to enable the fx to be held
autopan is sick to have enabled it makes the repeats wrap around your head.
If you set the time to -100 and length to 1 bar its kind of like an instant halftime plugin.

juicy acid bass lines

easy taurus by easy toolz is a surprisingly acidy sounding bass vst with a juicy resonant filter
Phutura by Phuturetone is a great synth for hoover sounds