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MIXING & EFFECTS
Audio Input/Output Routing  аренда сервера dedicated
This section covers the Input/Output routing functions in the
Mixer window. The track input/output (6 & 7) selectors and send switches
(18) contain the input/output
and internal routing functions and are discussed below.
Routing
Mixer tracks take an input audio signal from one or more
internal (Channels for example) or
external sources, processing it and then pass the processed audio
to another location, usually the Master track.
As noted, by default, all insert tracks take the instruments
assigned to them for input signal and output to the master track
(and may output to one or more send tracks OR other insert tracks
via the send control function (18). The send tracks can take the signal
from the insert tracks and output to the master track. Finally, the
master track outputs the resulting mixed signal to the audio card
of your PC.
To send audio from one insert track to another
- Select the source track you wish to send FROM
and then left-click the send control switch (18) on the destination
track you want to send TO. A send-level knob will appear on the
destination track that can be used to change the level of signal
passed to the destination. By default the SOURCE track will
maintain routing to the Master track - If you don't want
this then select the source track and disable the send switch on
the master by left-clicking it.
Users who use ASIO drivers for audio output can route the tracks
to the various ASIO outputs their audio card provides. These can be
outputs to the individual channels of a 5.1 surround system,
hardware mp3 compressors, disk streaming outputs etc. Additional
outputs appear also when using the FL Studio multi output VSTi
connection.
Most of the ASIO drivers provide ASIO inputs for microphone,
line in etc. You can route such inputs to the mixer tracks. Note
that the ASIO inputs will not replace but mix together with any
input audio the track receives from other sources (instruments,
other tracks etc.).
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Limitations of routing:
1. Only one track at a time can output to the
primary DirectSound driver (usually this is the master track). This
limitation does not apply if you use ASIO for audio output.
2. FL Studio will disable certain routing choices
if this would create a circular dependency (for example trying to
route a track to itself).
3. Send tracks can not be routed to insert
tracks.
4. None of the tracks can be routed to a send
track. Instead, use the Send Levels (M) knobs to adjust the amount of
signal sent from an insert track to the send tracks.
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Prepare for Recording
The disk button (17)
prepares a track for disk
recording (to a *.WAV file).
Mixer reference diagram
- Mixer Menu - Contains view, recording, Track
linking, renaming and coloring options, click here to learn more about
the options.
- Mixer Track Scroll Bar - This will slide the
visible range tracks within the mixer window.
- Mixer Insert Tracks - The output of all audio
instruments in FL Studio is routed to one of the 64 available
insert tracks. In the default Mixer setup, once the audio signal is
processed with the integrated filters (equalizer, volume and
panning - 9) it is then sent
to the master mixer track (10). It is also possible to route the
audio of a mixer track to any ASIO output (7 - for users with ASIO enabled sound
cards) or even another insert track (18). This internal re-routing is a very
powerful feature allowing you to create advanced mixer setups with
groups and subgroups of insert tracks.
The labels can be right-clicked (or press F2) to rename the
track or recolor it. Quick linking of channel/s:
From the Channel window use the
Channel selector to select the channel/s you want to route to the
mixer track, then select the desired destination mixer track and
click Ctrl+L. There is also an option to
sequentially link Channels to tracks starting from the selected
track. Shift+Ctrl+L.
- Send Tracks - there are 4 mixer tracks
dedicated to send functions, although any track can serve as a
send, (18). The send tracks
do not receive a direct audio input from the instruments, but they
can receive audio from one or more of the 64 insert tracks (you can
adjust the amount of signal sent by each insert track with the Send
Level knobs (15). The purpose
of send tracks is the ability to setup common effects (for ex.
reverb and delay) once in a send track and then being able to route
multiple insert tracks audio to it, as opposed to adding the same
effect in each insert track, wasting CPU power.
- Big Peak Meter - Can be hidden using the Mixer
menu (1) > View >
Options. Output is in dB. See Levels and Mixing to
learn more about using peak meters in FL Studio.
- External mixer input - ASIO hardware inputs
and some VSTi inputs can be selected here.
- External mixer output - ASIO hardware outputs
can be selected here. Typical uses include live-use where one
channel is sent to headphones for monitoring previewed
samples/mixes while the main mix goes to the PA OR
to create a surround sound sub-mix by sending several mixer tracks
to the relevant surround channels of your soundcard.
- FX slots - Up to 8 independent FX may be added
to each mixer track. To load an Effect: Left-click
on pop-up menu arrow at the left end of the slot and use the
'select' option. If you need more than 8 Effects, use the 'Send'
feature (18) to route the
output of one mixer track to another. To open an Effect GUI
interface: Left-click on the name of a loaded Effect, a
loaded Effect is displayed in FX slot 7 above.
- Mixer Track Properties - For more detail
click here.
Parametric EQ, Stereo Separation
 , Pan  , Swap Stereo Channels , Invert Phase  . The All these features are automatable.
Panel (A) is
the graph for the Parametric EQ, left-click to control center
frequency (left-right)/amplitude(up/down) or right-click to control
bandwidth (left-right)/amplitude(up/down). Panel
(B) can be left or right
clicked to gain simultaneous X/Y control over Pan and Volume.
Panel (C)
holds the controls for Plugin Delay
Compensation.
- Master Mixer Track - All audio output of FL
Studio is routed through the master mixer track for final
processing before the final output (unless an insert track is
routed out of the mixer to an ASIO output - 7). In light of this, the Master track
isn't a good place to record external ASIO inputs (6) as the external and internal audio
will be mixed together and recorded to disk.
- Small Peak Meter - See Levels and Mixing to
learn more about using peak meters in FL Studio.
- Mute Switch - left-click to
mute/un-mute the individual track, right-click to
solo/un-solo the individual track.
- Pan Knob - this function is also duplicated in
the Mixer Track Properties area.
- Level Fader - Can be automated right-clicked
and linked to controllers. This function is also duplicated in the
Mixer Track Properties area.
- Send Knobs - When the 'Send' switch is
activated (18) this knob (on
the destination track) controls the signal level received from the
source track.
- FX Enable/Disable Switch - When deselected
this disables all the FX in the FX slots (8). This only becomes active once an FX
is added to a FX slot.
- Track Recording Switch - When selected
(orange) the track is armed and any audio (internal or external
(6)) will be recorded to
disk.
- Track Send Enable Switch -
Left-click to enable audio to be passed from one
track to another, turns orange. Right-click to
route to a specific track, master routing disabled.
NOTE: Most controls are automatable
(right-click and select 'Create automation clip').
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