I use tempo automation pretty often, I cant remember all the tracks Ive used it for.Īlso, for the future, we do have a thread for FL Studio related questions.īFPs method works, though I really dont like working with this method since you cant see the tempo value, even if you type it in its by PERCENTAGE and not BPM (I believe.). The first bit of the automation should still be set at the projects original tempo, so it will automatically jump back when you play the project from the start. Thatll set that point to the tempo you changed your project to.īoth songs were made in FL Studio, and the tempo automation was done with the method above.Ĭreate a new point where you want the tempo to change, 2 if you want it to slow downspeed up as opposed to just immediately dropping (Using the Hold setting for that point in the automation).
Go to the point you want to change in your automation and right click and Paste Value. Thatll drop the automation clip for it in your playlist set to your projects current tempo.Ĭhange your projects tempo to what youd like it to change to, right click it after you change it and Copy Value. Has anyone of you used tempo automation in your track or do you know of any songs that use tempo automation Just wondering how it would work.
#How to use automation in fl studio how to
I want to try using this in a track but Im not sure how to do it. You can use this method to automate any last thing you moved. Select the automation clip channel, right click max, select paste value You can now shape the automation clip to switch between the min (110)and max (120) values or anywhere in between. Then select the automation clip channel, right click min, select paste value. Set tempo to the first tempo (slower one, for example 110 bpm). One simple way to switch between two tempos: 1) Right click on the tempo (i.e.
#How to use automation in fl studio software
Another crazy example would be if a track's mute state was set with 'Init song with this position'. This could work but imagine having to keep setting initial value like this. One of the solution could be to set track 6's levels to -5db, and re-initialise this value as initial position on track 6's volume, before playing again to hear this new level for another part of the song. I play back the song again wanting to hear another part of the song with the new level at track 6, and lo-and-behold, my track 6 level jumps back to -10db because the track is initialised to that value. I'm happy with it, and I stop the playback. Later on I tweak the levels of track 6 while the song is playing, from -10db to -5db. I do a rough mix of the levels, and I set the 'init song with this position' for each fader on each track. Say at the beginning of my mixing stage I have 16 tracks. Having knobs initialised with a certain value, without knowing how to remove that initialisation, can be annoying.
It behaves like an automation snapshot that remembers that value without writing automation data on that control. This is where the 'Init song with this position' comes in very handy. However, if that control has no automation set, that value would be lost and I would not be able to know what it was originally set at.
If that control has recorded automation, there would be no problem with this since during playback automation will automatically get the control back to the correct values. I may actually mess up the value if I accidentally bump on my physical sliders positions (or someone changed the slider positions while I am away from my computer for a while). The most helpful situation for me, would be when I am going to use a physical controller's slider (Korg NanoKontrol2 for me) to affect the values of a FL Studio knob for example. I can think of many uses for this feature.