Get used to using your keyboards function keys in FL Studio to improve your workflow. It’s one of those things which will slow you down at the start and speed you up in the long run. That’s a good thing! I organise them into groups e.g. lead, bass, drums, sound effects, automation. If you spend time organising a project file you’ll end up being more invested in following through with the track.

It helps to keep every layer named so you can remember what is what or it’ll quickly become a project that you open and instantly want to discard and move onto the next song (only to repeat in a vicious circle). In a song you might have lead sounds, bass sounds, drum samples, sound effect samples and automation clips all thrown in. When your song projects start getting bigger and better it helps to keep everything organised.

Hold the Alt key in combination with the left and right keys when in the mixer to move mixer tracks. Hold the alt key in combination with the up and down arrow keys when in the step sequencer to move inserts.

In the example – “Synth Lead C” doesn’t belong among the drum layers! Sort instruments and samples in the step sequencer and mixer.

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