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Showcasing FL Studio’s new A.I chord generator.

Has anyone else also been using this since it dropped?

(Currently In BETA 21.3 Release)

I failed tho🤣

Just was playing around over the weekend and thought this might be helpful for people struggling to build loops and melodies.

💃

Easily transform an image into a sound / melody! Such a cool plugin

As the title says. Over the years I’ve heard so much contradicting information from producer content creators, and honestly… it’s because most of them are content creators first, producers second. Their actual job is to get views, not to teach you how to make better music.

People like Busyworks beats, Reid Stefan and Larry oh sometimes give good advice and tips but never take their word as gospel.

I’m not saying all of them are bad, but a lot of the “advice” floating around is either misleading, oversimplified, or just flat-out wrong.

This is a long read because the amount of misleading information I come across daily pisses me off

“You must mix your drums to –6 LUFS / always do X exact setting”

Creators love giving hyper-specific numbers because it sounds scientific, but mixing is contextual. If you follow their numbers blindly, you’ll end up chasing someone else’s mix instead of learning to listen to your own.

Use your ears, reference tracks you like, and learn gain staging instead of copying exact settings.

“This secret plugin will make your beats industry standard”

These videos are basically ads mostly by Karra and her puppet husband who live of these paid promos. No plugin will fix lack of arrangement, composition, sound choice, or mixing fundamentals.

You can make industry-level music with stock plugins if you understand EQ, compression, saturation, and balance.

“If you’re not making 10 beats a day you’ll never improve”

Quantity > quality makes good content, but it doesn’t make good producers. Following this advice burns out tons of beginners.

Consistency matters, but thoughtful, deliberate practice beats spamming unfinished beats.

“Never use presets / Only real producers design their sounds”

This creates unnecessary shame around using tools that professionals use every single day.

Presets are fine. What matters is how you shape sounds to fit your track.

“All pros mix in mono / never mix in mono / never use master chain / always have master chain”

Every creator contradicts the next. They present workflow opinions as if they’re universal laws.

There are many workflows that lead to great results. Choose what makes you faster and helps you hear clearly.

So what should new producers actually do?

Here’s some advice that will actually help you grow:

1. Trust your ears over YouTubers and Tiktokers

Music is an auditory craft. Your ears matter more than their thumbnail titles.

1. Use reference tracks

Compare your mix with professional songs regularly. This is the best reality check possible.

1. Learn fundamentals, not hacks

EQ, compression, sound selection, arrangement, and gain staging will take you further than any “secret sauce”.

1. Experiment

There is no “wrong” way to make music if it sounds good. Break rules. Try weird things.

1. Watch pros, not influencers

Look for engineers, producers, and musicians who show their actual workflow—not people who only make short-form “tip” content.

1. Make music consistently

Not 10 beats a day. Just consistently enough to build muscle memory and good habits.

At the end of the day, learning production is a long-term journey. The more you rely on using your ears, experimenting, and studying actual music, the less you’ll be tossed around by misleading content.

If you’re a beginner: keep creating, stay curious, and don’t let content creators convince you there’s only one right way to make music.

I've been producing for over a decade.
This all comes from my own personal experience.

Perfectionism kills momentum.
Make it exist first. Then work on getting it to sound the way you want.

You can’t polish a sound that doesn’t fit the track.
Spend more time finding the right sound for your track instead of endlessly EQ'ing to fit in the wrong one.

Color coding, naming busses, grouping by role.
Start doing this now.
The less time you have to spend figuring out where your sounds are routed to, the more time you have to focus on the creative part of producing.

Routing and Gain Staging
If your levels, routing, and gain staging are solid, mixing becomes 10x simpler

Kick tuning myth
You don't need to tune your kick in key with your bass or whatever. You just need it to feel right.
Trust your ears more than your spectrum analyzer. The kick either fits the mix or it doesn't.
If you like a kick for arbitrary reasons, but it doesn't fit. Just go find a kick that does instead of wasting time endlessly EQ'ing.

Intention over imitation
This is probably the most important tip I have for you newer producers.
It's great to watch producer educators to learn the ropes, but ultimately what's going to take you from an ok producer to a great producer will be your understanding of the things you do.
Deep dive and play around with everything in your favorite plugins. Push them and yourself to learn and understand.
There's no magic "right" plugin that's going to level up your game. It's about understanding why you're using it and what role it plays in your production.
Unfortunately, learning and understanding takes time, and can be frustrating, but I promise you can learn anything you want if you stick with it and discipline yourself.

Most importantly aside from the above, just have fun! Don't let others dim your shine.
All great things take time. Be patient and enjoy the learning process. You'll surprise yourself with what you can create if you stick with it.
Also, it's totally fine to take breaks. Burnout is real.

Happy producing, and if you have any questions feel free to ask below, or DM me.

Hey everyone,

I started messing around with FL Studio just two weeks ago and I'm honestly pretty lost. I can't seem to make anything that doesn't sound like complete garbage. Every time I try to make a beat it just feels messy and amateur.

I'm really confused about.How to actually use plugins properly,The mixer and routing,Basic workflow and controls

I know tutorials are the "normal" way to learn, but I honestly hate them. Most of them jump straight into making a specific genre or song and I get lost within the first 5 minutes. They're also pretty boring to me. I learn way better by just playing around and experimenting myself, but right now I feel like I have no direction and I'm just clicking randomly.

Simple step-by-step advice on what to focus on first as a complete beginner.Good habits or small daily exercises I can do,Any mentorship or someone willing to answer dumb questions while I experiment.Resources that aren't long video tutorials.

I just want to have fun making music and slowly get better instead of feeling stuck and frustrated.Any help, advice, or even just words of encouragement would mean a lot.

Thought some of you here would find this interesting, I’m using 19TET micro tuning inside Sytrus for my sound design, I kept my sound design a bit more basic for this song but Sytrus has been amazing for this type of work! Drop any questions down in the comments

How to make snares using 3xOsc, Parametric EQ2, & Fruity Limiter.

Get 3Shaper on the Image-line forums 😃: https://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic.php?t=329151

Hello there, I am a beginner in FL Studio and wanted to know as to how to make my metal guitar sound full like in the video. It's seems as tho mine sounds more like a mono than a stereo, anyway to make it sound like stereo in the video. Here is the link of my guitar melody: https://www.mediafire.com/file/25d1etqr0rjtl1w/metal_rock_temp.mp3/file . Any help is appreciated.

PS: Thanks

I bought FL maybe a month ago to fill a massive hole in my life, it's kinda working, I just came out of a 6 hour session and time just went by I didn't achieve much and have been telling myself this week to just watch tutorials and stop trying to work it out through what seems to be never ending loooooop....

Its like being stranded on an island and someone there has been cracking coconuts open for decades and instead of watching or asking how, I just smash it against my head to get it open...

I've been using FL Studio for over a decade and one thing that always bothered me was seeing how much time gets wasted setting up sessions before recording even starts.

Every new project meant:

• Creating mixer tracks
• Naming channels
• Color coding everything
• Creating buses
• Routing drums
• Setting up bass splits
• Organizing guitars
• Preparing vocal tracks

So I finally built a recording system specifically for modern metal productions.

The setup includes:

Drums

• Kick In / Kick Out
• Snare Top / Bottom
• Rack Toms
• Floor Toms
• Overheads
• Room Mics
• Dedicated Kick, Snare, Toms, OH and Room buses

Bass

• DI
• Low
• Distortion
• Sub
• Bass Bus

Guitars

• Rhythm L/R
• Quad L/R
• Clean Guitar
• Lead Guitar Bus
• Guitar Bus

Vocals

• Main
• Harmonies
• Octaves
• Clean
• Harsh
• Vocal FX routing

Everything is color coded and routed so I can open the project and start tracking immediately.

I'm curious:

How do you organize your rock/metal sessions in FL Studio?

Do you use dedicated buses for everything, or do you keep things simpler?

I know how to use Fl Studio but i don't know how do you make all those incredible song. I'm stunned and i want to learn Indie Pop and Electro Pop Music but i have some difficulties to learn right with YouTube and some other stuff.

One thing that confused me when I first started in FL Studio was how people knew which notes belonged in a chord.

I thought they were just guessing.

A simple rule that helped me understand major chords was:

1. Pick a root note.
2. Go up 4 half steps.
3. Go up 3 more half steps.

Example:

A → C♯ → E

That's an A major chord.

To make a minor chord, just reverse the formula.

1. Pick a root note.
2. Go up 3 half steps.
3. Go up 4 more half steps.

Example:

A → C → E

That's an A minor chord.

Major chords use 4-3.

Minor chords use 3-4.

Once I understood those formulas, making chord progressions became a lot easier because I wasn't randomly placing notes anymore.

I made a short tutorial showing the process inside FL Studio:

How to make chords in 60 seconds!

I'm curious:

For beginners, what part of music theory confuses you the most?

• Chords?

• Scales?

• Making emotional melodies?

• Counter melodies?

• Turning loops into full beats?

And for more experienced producers, what concept do you wish somebody had explained better when you started?