Tutorial 4: What is the Step Sequencer? What is it good for?

Tutorial on how to use the Step Sequencer in FL Studio

Perhaps the Step Sequencer (F6) is the heart of FL Studio. It‘s just steps in a certain sequence represented by the small line of buttons or steps located at the right side of every channel.  By default they are 16 steps divided four in groups of four steps and once you click them and press play they begin to sound from left to right until it reaches the end of the line, then the process repeats again in a “loop”.

It’s easy to work with this tool, which is very convenient because maybe, as I said before ,it is the most important part of FL Studio. Now, let’s take a closer.

Tutorial 3: What else can I do with the browser?

Tutorial on using the browser in FL Studio

The Browser is full of different sounds, but that’s not all, in addition, you can also find the plug in database, generators, channel presets, your projects, etc. (it even has some voices or short electronic phrases in a submenu called Speech, click on them too, some are really funny), and almost everything can be added to the Step sequencer. 

Tutorial 2: Which of these hundreds of beat buttons should I press first?

Tutorial on beat buttons in FL Studio?

The answer to that might be anyone, but that would get you nowhere, although everything in FL Studio is connected. The best thing to do is to choose your first sounds.

Hey take it easy! For that, go to the Browser at the left side and navigate through the bar. Notice that every time you click on a sample it makes a short sound indicating you its type of sound. But the Browser (F8) has several submenus or groups of samples so maybe you are not sure of which one to pick and of course what to do with them. This is the first news: The samples go to the Step Sequencer (F6), the square box just at the right of the Browser, Remember?.