Hot FL Studio How-Tos


How To: Change pitch in FL Studio
This simple audio production tutorial shows you the two ways to change pitch in FL Studio. If you are a beginner audio producer or new to Fl Studio, also known as Fruity Loops, this tutorial will show you how easy it is to change pitch on a whole song, or one instrument.

How To: Create a Reggaeton beat in FL Studio
This tutorials shows how easy it is to create a basic reggaton beat in Fruity Loops Studio. This is a 3 3 2 rhythm beat.

How To: Cheat to produce realistic music in FL Studio
Learn how to cheat like hell to produce realistic sounding piano flourishes, amazing rolls, and perfectly harmonious music in FL Studio. This tutorial uses examples from other FL tutorials on this site so you may have to watch more than just one. Check out this advanced music theory tutorial and get some great cheating tricks to help your music production in FL Studo.

How To: Add effects to instruments and vocals in FL Studio
Learn how to add effects to instruments and vocals in this FL Studio audio production tutorial. Make sounds have more depth or tweak them for whatever musical needs and get a basic overview of mixing and mastering in FL Studio.

How To: Change the color of the background grid on FL Studio
If you are tired of looking at the same old background when using Fruity Loops, go ahead and make a change! This video will show you how you can change the background color on FL studio. Personalize your FL studio!

How To: Create portamento in FL Studio
Portmento is cool. You can't do that famous West Coast worm or Dirty South Synth glide without it. So check out this tutorial and learn how to create portamento (slide, glide or pitch bend) on notes in your FL Studio beats.

How To: Tune a kick drum in FL Studio 9
In this clip, learn how to tune your kick drum using FL Studio 9 on your computer. You will learn how to tune your kicks and make them sound better when played melodically. So, check out this tutorial and try it out on your own version of Studio to start making beautiful music. Rock on!

How To: Humanize a composition in FL Studio (fruity loops)
Is your FL Studio composition sounding too "robotic"? Too repetitive? Learn to Humanize! In this music production software tutorial you will learn how to humanize a composition in FL Studio and really improve your music making skills and professionalism.

How To: Make a simple but effective bassline in FL Studio
Making an effective bassline is probably easier than you think. Check out this tutorial and see how easy it is to make a simple and good bassline for your music in Fruity Loops (FL Studio).

How To: Remake Cam'Ron's "Oh Boy" by Just Blaze in FL Studio
This is a four part series on remaking Cam'Ron's "Oh Boy" produced by Just Blaze using Adobe Audition and Fruity Loops (FL Studio). Part one covers sample chopping, Part two covers finding the tempo, part three covers pitch matching, part four covers arranging it.

How To: Work with scales in FL Studio
This tutorial explains why scales are important and how they give your song a specific mood or sound and how to work with them in Fruity Loops (FL Studio).

How To: Use a USB joystick or controller in FL Studio
Learn how to use your USB controller as an instrument in FL Studio.

How To: Create a melody around a vocal in FL Studio
In this video, we learn how to create a melody around a vocal in FL Studio. Start to play around with the melody to the song and change the tempo to how fast you want it. Then, move around different sections to create the exact sound that you want. Finish editing all of the bars on the song until you have it to a sound that you like. Use the keys on the left hand side of the screen to help show you where you are editing the keys at. Then, use the different filters to make the song sound how y...

How To: Use the Vocoder in FL Studio
This is a Step-by-step video tutorial showing you how to use the Fruity Loops Vocoder in FL Studio. Learn the principles of the Vocoder and how to use the modulator and the carrier and route the signals to the vocoder in FL Studio.

How To: Use generators in FL Studio
Use Fruity Loops generators to create a variety of sounds. Learn how to use the sound generator features of FL Studio in this free digital audio workstation tutorial from our music recording expert.

How To: Create a melody in FL Studio
Writing a good melody is harder for some people than others but anyone can do it with practice. The key is to show you what makes up a melody & why the parts are important and NFX shows you how in this FL Studio tutorial.

How To: Automate panning in FL Studio
A short tutorial on panning automation in Fruity Loops (FL Studio). Panning is moving a sound from the one speaker to another from left to right or vice versa.

How To: Use quantize and groove templates in FL Studio
Ever want a true MPC swing on your FL? well you can do it with groove templates and this Fruity Loops tutorial will show you how.

How To: Create a funk guitar wah wah sound in FL Studio
This video demonstrates a couple of ways to get a wah wah sound. It shows some of the power of FL Studio's Formula Controller as an automation source as well.

How To: Double your kick drum in FL Studio
NFX shows you how to create secondary kicks, also known as doubling your kick drum using FL Studio (Fruity Loops).

How To: Split tracks in FL Studio
NFX shows how to split tracks into WAV files using FL Studio. You would do this to send your song to a professional mixing engineer or maybe to collaborate with a non-FL user. Split tracks can be used in Protools, Audition, etc., but are demonstrated here in Fruity Loops.

How To: Sample and slice in FL Studio
This FL Studio tutorial video shows how to use the sampler to sample sounds or parts of songs and how to use the slicer to slice songs, loops, or patterns up to use in sampling. Learn how to sample and slice in FL Studio with the help of this tutorial. Great for hip hop or songs where you want to add instrument tracks.

How To: Import a folder of files into FL Studio
Importing entire folders of music files into FL Studio is a much more convenient way of importing files than one by one. This method imports an entire folder of samples or sounds for instant and easy access opposed to one sample at a time (wav, mp3, or whatever you may use). Watch and see how to import folders of music files easily in Fruity Loops (FL Studio).

How To: Make a basic beat in FL Studio 9
In this tutorial, get a quick introduction to FL Studio 9 and learn how to make a basic beat. This beat is super easy so even beginners can do it and will be a great addition to your YouTube video intros.

How To: Simulate a live crowd in FL Studio (fruity loops)
This audio production tutorial shows you how to simulate a live crown in FL Studio. Use a microphone or your audio output to trigger cheering or laughter in real-time with 5 easy steps in FL Studio. There's a little formula usage involved, but it's easy. See how to use fruity formula controllers for crowd simulation and reactions.

How To: Work with samples in FL Studio (fruity loops)
This FL Studio tutorial is a demonstration of drag-and-drop sample moving, slicing, granulizing, and editing all within FL Studio. You will also get some ideas for how to use drag and drop when working with samples.

How To: Chop samples with the FL Slicer in FL Studio
Most people use the FL Slicer in Fruity Loops on drum beats because it can chop them up real nice but NFX shows you how to use it for some creative sample chopping. Just load a loop and go at it.

How To: Loop instrument samples in FL Studio
With so many samples floating around the internet its a shame more people don't know how to loop an instrument sample so that it can play a note as long as you want it to play. Well, look know further than this tutorial to learn how to loop instrument samples in FL Studio (Fruity Loops) and expand your mixing knowledge. This works in FL7 and FL8.

How To: Create a T-Pain vocal effect with GSnap in FL Studio
In this video NFX shows you how to get a T-Pain vocal effect using a freeware plug-in called GSnap for Fruity Loops (FL Studio). You do have to listen to NFX (try to) sing as punishment, but if you need that T-Pain effect on a budget, here you go.

How To: Install VST plugins in FL Studio
This tutorial will guide you step by step and help you get access to an almost limitless number of instruments and effects. There are so many freeware synths and effects that this tutorial can help you use. Check it out and learn how to install VST plugins in Fruity Loops (FL Studio).

How To: Create a sampled beat in Adobe Audition and FL studio
This is a two part tutorial on sampling with Adobe Audition and making a sampled beat in FL Studio. The first part covers chopping the samples. In part two we take the samples we chopped in part 1 using Audition and arrange them in FL Studio.

How To: Use the pitch bend wheel in Fruity Loops Studio
When creating loops, or even playing the keyboard, you're going to end up using your pitch bend wheel on your midi controller. And don't diss the pitch bender, Stevie Wonder used it, and that guy is richer than you! If you're using Fruity Loops Studio and are wondering how to use the pitch bend plug in, this video is where to look. You will get a full walkthrough of using the pitch bend features in FL Studio.

How To: Get the T-Pain effect in FL Studio 8
In this how-to video, you will learn how to get the T-Pain effect with Fruity Loops Studio 8. First, open the program. Insert the sound by clicking on the sampler and opening a recording. Next, click the arrow and select assign a mixer track. Select GSnap for the T-Pain effect. Change the settings, which will allow you to get this particular effect. You can also choose the Autotune effect to get this sound as well. Select this effect and set the effect up. You can save the settings with a pre...

How To: Use equalizers in FL Studio (Fruity Loops)
This music production software tutorial gives an in-depth demonstration and concept of using an equalizer in FL Studio. See how to use the EQUO and Fruity parametric EQ2 equalizers both as a sound-shaper and as an informative feedback device within FL Studio and in general music production.

How To: Import a sample into FL Studio
This is a quick and effective tutorial shows you how to import any kind of music file into FL Studio. Watch and learn how to import a sample into Fruity Loops.

How To: Set up a MOD Wheel on a MIDI controller in FL Studio
NFX shows you how to connect the MOD wheel on the MIDI controller to a channel plugin in FL Studio. Fruity Loops doesn't do this for you automatically so it's a good skill to learn.

How To: Fade out in FL Studio (Fruity Loops)
This video shows a simple way to fade out your song using an automation clip in FL Studio.

How To: Create a Pumping Effect (Like Sidechain Compression) in FL Studio [Advanced]
You may have heard those cool effects artists like Axwell, Ingrosso, Guetta, Antillas and many others use in their songs, the "pumping effect" on the Lead Synths or the vocals, like fading in and out.

How To: Make a hip-hop beat in Fruity Loops
In this tutorial, we learn how to make a hip-hop beat in Fruity Loops. When you first open this up, you should download a hip-hop beat package from Lil' John that has 170 different types of beats in it. From here, open these up and start to load them onto the screen. You won't have to add in any effects because the sounds in the program are already mastered. There are a lot of different types of beats you have to choose from. Simply put these together in a way that you like, then you're finis...

How To: Make an emotional anime beat in Fruity Loops
In this tutorial, we learn how to make an emotional anime beat in Fruity Loops. Start out by playing the different keys on the side of the screen where the keyboard is. After you have found a combination of keys that you like, start to add in different effects to this. You can also use a template that has an emotional beat already created on it. Use piano, drum, tempo, and anything else to change the sound of the beat as you would like it. Edit small parts of the beat as you continue through ...