When you are done, click the Stop button on the Transport Panel and ‘unarm’ recording by clicking the Record button again (it will turn to grey again). After a few seconds the pattern will begin to be play - move your control now. I am now ready to record.Ĭlick the Play button on the Transport Panel. Note that I have selected pattern 1 in the Playlist view (which happens to have my note pattern) and have opened the Nexus plugin which has the filter cutoff control. Next, make sure that you have selected the appropriate pattern and have the control you want to move in front of you. If you were to select any of the options in the dialog we would override our previous setting in the recording filter menu (see above). If you happen to see the following dialog:Ĭlick the ‘x’ in the upper corner. It will turn red/orange indicating that recording has now been ‘armed’. In this way we make sure that we only record automation events when we are in record mode. Make sure that only Automation is selected. If you right click it you will see the following menu (Recording filter menu): It is the recording we are interested in. The Transport Panel (located in the main FL Studio interface) contains controls for playing, recording and setting song position and tempo. It does not have to be a plugin.Īnyway, let’s have a look at the Transport Panel below: on one of the generators that come with FL Studio. Note that I use the Nexus plugin and the filter cutoff for illustration purposes only. Now, what I would like to achieve is to change the filter cutoff value while this pattern is played. See the below screenshot of the Piano Roll view with a trance lead pattern (Nexus VST plugin): Let’s start with a pattern that I created.
In some other tutorial I will discuss how to link external controllers to controls in FL Studio. We will keep it simple here and use our mouse, which requires no special setup. Moving controls in FL studio can be done either via an external controller or with your mouse. But wouldn’t it be nice if we could play our song or pattern, change the channel volume (or any other control) while the song is played and record that movement? This is where (recording) automation events come in. You already know (assuming you have read the mentioned tutorial) that you can move your controls by linking them to automation clips – which you manipulate manually.
In this tutorial we will have a closer look at the latter type of automation. While automation clips can exist independent of a pattern, automation events are bound to patterns and do not exist independently. In a previous tutorial (see What is automation?) I mentioned automation clips and automation events.
FL Studio tutorial explaining automation events.