I have released a new FL Studio tutorial demonstrating how you can use the Current channel in the mixer to make analysing the output of your different mixer channels without loading up multiple instances of plugins. Please like and subscribe to my youTube channel.
Video Transcript
00:00:08
Hello. Jomarkho here, with another little tutorial about FL Studio.
Here I’ve opened up my main template. I’m going to talk to you about the current channel here on the mixer.
At the moment I have nothing here. Now the current channel on the mixer is very useful to help you monitor what’s going on, on an individual channel, without the need to load in the same plugin multiple times on different channels.
00:00:38
So, for example, here I’m going to load Span.
Now Span is great to see what your level output and your spectrum output across the frequency range. Placing it on your current channel marker, this one here at the end with the C, will display the output from the other currently selected channel at any time.
I can have one instance of spam on the current channel rather than placing spans across multiple channels and swapping between them when I want to see (their output).
I find this very, very useful. You can have it open particularly if you have two screens like I do, and normally my mixer would be on my second screen. But for the purpose of this tutorial, it’s here on this one screen.
00:01:32
So, as you see, as I flick through these different elements from one channel to the next, you will see only the output from that channel is being displayed on the Span.
00:02:01
Two other common uses for using the current channel are to put an instance of Edison, the audio editor for recording channel.
Here you can select to record whichever your currently selected channel is without opening multiple instances of Edison.
00:02:20
Let’s just take a quick look at that right here.
00:02:50
There we go. Nice and easy peasy.
00:02:54
And here we see the use of a DB metre. So, you can easily see on a large scale the debug level of the current selected track.
Now I would normally rearrange my windows and have this pretty much the full height of the screen but, as I’ve got everything stacked onto 1 screen, I won’t do that in this case.
00:03:19
Let’s just have a very quick look at this.
00:03:33
So here are three uses for the current channel. I’m sure you can find many more. Have fun and I hope this improves your FL studio workflow.
Bye for now.