
MIDI files can also be multi-channel, which means they can contain the notes of multiple parts of a song. This allows you to make an infinite variety of melodies, chords, and notes.īecause they are very lightweight and contain exact note information, they are a perfect way to share melodies in digital format. You need to run your MIDI track through an instrument to play sound. In contrast to audio samples and audio tracks, MIDI files and MIDI tracks do not contain any sound. You can also plug a MIDI keyboard into your computer to play notes on a MIDI track. These types of tracks allow you to draw notes in your DAW to play a melody. You may import MIDI files onto MIDI tracks (also called instrument tracks or instrument channels in FL Studio). What is a MIDI File and what are they used for?Ī MIDI file (.mid) is a simple file containing musical note data. Then I will show you two ways of importing a MIDI file into FL Studio.

This guide starts by outlining what a MIDI file is and how to use MIDI files & MIDI tracks. We also have similar guides for using MIDI files in Ableton Live, Studio One, Logic Pro, and Cubase. When the play-head reaches a Clip, FL Studio plays whatever the Clip instructs it to do.We designed this easy-to-follow guide to help you import MIDI files in FL Studio. Think of Clips as a little like notes in the Piano roll. You can put any Clip type anywhere and even overlay Clips. Unlike most other sequencers, the Playlist tracks are not bound to any one instrument, audio recording or even Clip type. The Playlist window is a stack of multi-purpose 'Clip Tracks' that can host Patterns Clips, Audio Clips and Automation Clips. Imagine you have a tape with a several session recordings parts as a database of the good recording clips - so is how are the Patterns in FLStudio, and the Channels are these recordings clips which can be Patterns Clips ( instruments, layers, controllers and samplers), Audio Clips (recordings and samplers) and Automation Clips (closely related to Event automation). Clicking in the Pattern's name at Playlist window title is showed the Pattern clip sources selection list, this is the nearest way to do what you would like.īy this selection list is easy and fast to select another pattern to Draw/Paint it to each desired Playlist track.Ī function like each Patern to a Playlist track which you would like to get of the Playlist window there will never be because isn't the proposal of the Playlist window use, the channels into patterns in the FLStudio are like module's samplers allocators.
