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FL Studio's Piano roll has the well deserved reputation as the best Piano roll in the business. The Piano roll sends note and automation data to plugin instruments associated with the Piano roll's Channel. This process is known as 'sequencing'. There are a number of useful tools to help with complex score editing and other manipulations as described below. Note pitch is displayed on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis. This is the exact principle as paper 'Piano rolls' used to automate player-pianos in former times. The resolution of the grid is user-selectable (zoomable) and allows the composition of songs with unlimited complexity. Note data can be entered manually with the editing tools or recorded in from 'live' MIDI controllers, then edited to fix mistakes or make changes.

NOTE: You can click the (Middle-Mouse-Button) and drag in the Piano roll to scroll vertically and horizontally at the same time.

Piano roll Basics

  • Notes - are displayed as horizontal bars. Slides are shown as horizontal bars with a small triangle drawn in the right side. Preview Channels by Left-clicking the Preview Keyboard keys.
  • Pitch - is mapped from bottom (low) to top (high).
  • Duration - The horizontal length represents time. The number on the Piano roll's top-ruler are bars (groups of beats).
  • Resolution / grid - The smaller grid each bar is divided into are set by the window's snap () setting. Scroll speed will slow when snap settings other than 'Line' are used. Resolution can also change with Zoom when Snap is set to Line. Selecting Main will use the Global Snap value. Some Global snap settings will also quantize live input recording from a MIDI controller.
  • Target Channel - Select a Channel with the drop-down menu, in the title bar, to select for editing. Channels with notes, in the currently selected Pattern, will display a tick. You can roll your mouse-wheel while hovering over the control to show Channels with notes OR hold (Ctrl+Mouse-wheel) to show used and unused Channels.

NOTES:

  1. Click-and-hold - Beware the 'F10 > General Settings > Click-and-hold functions in piano roll' option on the General settings tab. It's functions include:
    • Copy note: Hold on an existing note to copy it.
    • Cycle slide/porta - Click and hold when adding a note to cycle through slide & porta event modes.
    • Glue notes - Place the cursor between 2 neighbor notes, so the resize cursor appears, then click and hold to glue them.
  2. Mouse wheel velocity - Use mouse wheel while holding notes to change velocity.
  3. Mouse wheel tools - Change tools by holding right click and rolling the wheel.
  4. Time Markers - When set to type Pattern length (Right-Click a marker) Time Markers will define the length of the currently selected Pattern.

Piano roll Controls

  • Toolbar icons - Along the top of the Piano roll window:
    Main Menu - Includes: Edit, Tools, View, Snap, Select, Group, Zoom, Time Marker, Clip Source, Performance Mode, playhead and Detach options.
    Tools menu -Riff machine (Alt+E);Quick legato (Ctrl+L);Articulate (Alt+L);Quick quantize (Ctrl+Q);Quick quantize start times (Shift+Q);Quantize (Alt+Q);Quick chop (Ctrl+U);Chop (Alt+U);Glue (Ctrl+G);Arpeggiate (Alt+A);Strum (Alt+S);Flam (Alt+F);Claw machine(Alt+W);Limit (Alt+K);Flip (Alt+Y);Randomize (Alt+R);Scale levels (Alt+X),LFO (Alt+O)
    Piano roll Snap - Snap determines how Notes will move and quantization aligns events relative to the background grid (Hold Alt to temporarily set snap to 'none'). NOTE: There is a Global Snap selector on the Snap Panel.
    Stamp tool - Add predefined chords selected from the menu that opens when this tool is clicked. NOTE: Deselect 'Only one' at the top of the menu to avoid the tool reverting to single note mode after the first stamp.
    Draw (P) - Left-click to add a note. Left-click-and-drag to reposition the note before releasing it. Right-Click to delete notes. Right-Click and drag to delete multiple notes. Right-Click and hold on the background to open the slice tool (F10 > General settings > Click and hold functions on).Modifier keys: (Shift) add in stretch mode. (Ctrl) to make a selection. (Alt) to add in Draw mode (pencil) with snap set to 'none'.
    Paint (B) - Paints multiple notes as you drag in lines. You can paint notes above or below existing notes to create chords. Left-click to add a single note. Click-and-drag to add multiple notes. Right-Click notes to delete them. Modifier keys: (Shift) - Monophonic paint allows vertical movement while painting AND replaces existing (or selected) notes to create a monophonic score. Use (Ctrl) to make a selection.
    Paint drum sequencer mode (N) - Similar to the 'Paint' tool above. Adds multiple notes as you drag in lines. Behaviors are fine-tuned to work for drum sequencing in the Piano roll, where you may want to mute/unmute steps. Left-click to add a note. Click-and-drag to paint a line of notes. Left-click on notes to mute/unmute them. Right-Click to delete notes. Right-Click and drag to delete multiple notes. Snap sets the note length. Right-Click and hold on the background to open the slice tool (F10 > General settings > Click and hold functions on).Modifier keys: (Ctrl) to make a selection. (Alt) paint at half the selected snap setting.
    Delete (D) - Click or Click-and-drag to delete notes. Right-Click and hold on the background to open the slice tool (F10 > General settings > Click and hold functions on).Modifier keys: Hold (Ctrl) to make a selection, then press (Delete).
    Mute (T) - Left-click on notes to mute them. Left-click and drag to mute multiple notes. Right-Click to delete notes. Right-Click and hold on the background to open the slice tool (F10 > General settings > Click and hold functions on).Modifier keys: (Ctrl) to make a selection.
    Slice (C) - Left-click and drag vertically to slice through notes. Glue notes by making a selection of touching notes and using the (Ctrl+G) shortcut.Modifier keys: (Shift) slice without dragging. (Ctrl) to make a selection. (Shift+Alt) Slice without dragging and with snap set to 'none'.
    Select (E) - Click notes or Click and drag to make group selections.Modifier keys: (Shift) add to or remove notes from the selection.
    Zoom to selection (Z) - Left-click and drag to zoom to selection. Left-click on background to zoom out. When in other modes use (Ctrl+Right-Click) and drag to make a zoom-to selection. Right-Click again to swap between zoom and unzoomed modes. Right-Click the icon to open a menu of quick zoom options:
    • Zoom in/ Zoom out (Page up / Page down) - Zoom centers on the Cursor position.
    • Quick-zoom 1, 2 & 3 (Shift+1, 2, 3) - Three handy zoom levels.
    • Zoom out far (Shift+4) - Minimum horizontal zoom.
    • On Selection (Shift+5 - Zoom to time-line selection. The command will be disabled if no time region is selected in the timeline.
    Play selected (Y) - Click the notes you want to play. Click and drag to 'scrub' play notes.Modifier keys: (Alt) make a selection.
    Play / Pause - Left-click to start/pauses playback. Right-Click (while playing) to stop and return to the last set start position. Right-Click (while stopped) to return the playhead to the start of the Piano roll. NOTE: There is an option on the Right-Click main transport Stop button Remember seek time for the start position to be remembered.
  • Target Channel - Change instrument channels (of the current pattern) without leaving the Piano roll. Right-Click to open the target Channel instrument's interface.
  • Event editor target - Selects the data to be displayed in the integrated event editor. This can include parameters such as note properties (Panning, Velocity, etc.) or automation events.
  • Slide & Portamento - These are flags that can be set per-note and work as follows:
    • Portamento Toggle ( O) - When selected, notes added to the Piano roll will display a 'portamento flag' ( icon). The portamento flag causes a short slide in pitch from the end of one note to the note with the portamento flag. This is a note transition effect. NOTES: 1. these features only work with native FL Studio instruments and not VST instruments. 2. Click-and-hold functions in piano roll - Click and hold when adding a note to cycle through slide, portamento note mode. See General Options settings.
    • Slide Toggle ( S) - When selected, notes added to the Piano roll become 'slide notes' displaying the slide icon () that causes notes, above or below the slide-note, to slide to the pitch of the slide-note. The slide-time is set by the length of the slide-note.
  • Note color / Color group selector - Create note groups for independent editing of overlapping notes categorized by color group.NOTES:
    • MIDI Control - Color groups appear to plugins as separate MIDI channels, so one Piano roll can control several MIDI channels in the associated plugin.
    • Recording notes - To record incoming MIDI Channels from a controller or MIDI sequencer to the correct MIDI note colors, Right-Click the instrument's Channel Rack button and activate the 'MIDI channel through' option.
    • Color group selection - There is another Note / Clip Grouping function activated from the Toolbar Group Icon, that groups notes by selection. Use the Piano roll menu to group selected notes.
  • Preview keyboard - Click on the keyboard to preview notes. This does not work when play is active. Click here with the (Middle mouse button) anddrag vertically to change the vertical zoom centered on the note you click.
  • Horizontal & Vertical Zoom controls - To horizontally zoom the Piano roll click on the edge of the horizontal position slider and drag. For the vertical zoom boxes likewise click and drag.
  • Ghost notes - These are notes in other Piano rolls associated with the current Pattern. See the Piano roll Menu > Helpers > Ghost channels (Alt+V) option. To edit Ghost notes (Double Right-Click or X1 button) on the notes to switch to the Ghost channel. Piano roll menu > Editable ghosts (Ctrl+Alt+V) - Allows direct interaction with Ghost Notes as per normal notes.
  • Event Editor - Edit: Note Velocity, Pan, Pitch, Filter cutoff & Automation events (the lower Piano roll area can display the samedata as the Event Editor). Select events to edit from the Target Control selector or Right-Click the area at the front of the editor as shown above.
  • Notes - Click/select to drag, stretch, paint, clone, copy, etc. (see 'operating with notes' below). Note colors can have special functions, discussed here.
  • Splitter handle - Left-click and drag the divider to resize the upper and lower windows. Right-Click to return to the original position.

Using the Piano roll

FL Studio has, arguably, the most powerful Piano roll editor available. Combined with the Piano roll menu you will find the possibilities are endless and (after practice) effortless.

NOTE: Many of the movement and draw commands are constrained by the snap setting that controls how notes move relative to the Piano roll grid. Hold the (Alt) keyto temporarily bypass snap. Important also, the Global snap setting can be used for MIDI input quantizing.

  • Tools Menu - () is a shortcut to the Piano rolltools submenu (see the Piano roll menu page, ),containing various commands for operating on patterns in the Playlist.
  • Adding Notes - draw mode () allows you to draw, edit and delete notes. To add notes and draw the length, hold the (Left-Shift)Left-click and drag to the desired length. The paint mode () is similar, but allows you to drawmultiple notes at once while dragging horizontally in the Piano roll. Notes are added monophonically (replacing any notes they overlap). Hold (Shift) to bypass monophonic paint mode. In draw or paint mode, Left-click in the Piano roll's grid to draw a note. The default length for notes will be equal to the last touched note.
  • Deleting notes - Right-Click a note to erase it (alternatively switch to erase mode to erase with Left-clicks ().
  • Selecting/Deselecting groups of notes - There are a number of methods to select several notes, so you can move and resize them all at once:
    • Standard selection - Press and hold (Ctrlkey) and either click a note to select it, or drag a rectangle to select all notes in enclosed area.
    • Magic lasso - The Piano roll Menu > Select > Magic lasso option must be selected. Move your mouse pointer in a loop that encloses the notes you want to select (no clicking required, it's 'magic' remember). Make sure you have no notes selected before you perform the lasso action (Right-Click the empty Piano roll to deselectall notes and make another selection).
    • Add notes to selection - Hold (Ctrl+Shift) together while selecting to add notes to the existing selection.
    • Selecting notes in a time or pitch range - Time, (Ctrl+Left-click) or double-click the time ruler(along the top of the Piano roll) and drag along it to select all notes in a specified time range. Pitch, (Ctrl+Left-click) the Preview Keyboard to select a range of notes with the same pitch (dragging vertically on the Keyboard will select notes in the vertical pitch range).
    • Deselect all notes - While holding (Ctrl key), click empty space in Piano roll's grid.
    • Remove notes from selection - (Ctrl+Shift) deselects individual notes from the existing selection of notes.
    • Invert selection - Use (Shift+I).
    • Select mode button - Instead of holding (Ctrl key), you can also switch Piano roll to select mode by clicking the select mode button ().
  • Group notes - (Shift+G) - Group the selected notes. Grouping functions so that an action on any note in the Group will affect all other notes in the same way. Any number of groupings may be created. To group notes: make a selection using the Select tool, then use the Group function. Activate / deactivate grouping: Use the Note / Pattern Grouping switch on the Toobar icons. Deselecting the Note / Pattern Grouping switch will disable note grouping behavior until the switch is reactivated.
  • Copy & Paste - Make a selection (see above), hold the (Shift) button THEN drag selection with the left-mouse button OR (Ctrl+C), scroll to the new position/pattern and (Ctrl+V).
  • Duplicate selection - Make a selection and press (Ctrl+B). The selection, or all notes if nothing is selected, will be duplicated to theright of the original selection. To define a specific repeat interval, make a time-line equal to the complete interval to be duplicated and press(Ctrl+B). NOTE: The time-line selection and note selection can be made independently. The repeat interval is set by the time-line selection, the notes duplicated by the note selection. In this way, notes outside the time-line selectioncan be duplicated according to the time-line interval.
  • Moving notes - Select the note/sequence, Left-click on the note and drag vertically or horizontally. NOTES:
    • The snap setting will affect the movement.
    • Horizontal note positions can be adjusted by (Shift + mouse-wheel) by holding the cursor over a target note in the Piano roll.
    • (Shift) - Vertical position lock.
    • (Ctrl) - Horizontal position lock.
  • Bumping notes - This allows you to move the note/s by either 'snap' or 'pixel' based units. Snap units: Select the sequence/note and hold the (Shift key) and use the arrow keys on your keyboard. The snap setting willaffect the bump size. Pixel units: Hold the (Alt) key and use the arrow keys on your keyboard. Inthis case the zoom setting will affect the bump size.
  • Change note length - Select the note/sequence, Left-click on the right side and drag horizontally to change the notelength. This can also be performed on a selection of notes. NOTE: The snap setting will affect the way in which the note changes length. If (Caps Lock) is on and the note is selected by the left side, resizing notes willanchor the note end point, moving only the start position. If the note is selected by the right side the start point will be anchored.
  • Edit Ghost notes - Use (Double Right-Click or X1 button) on the Ghost notes to switch to the Ghost channel.
  • Stretch / compress scores - Select a group of notes and drag the pop-up handleOR hold (Right-Shift) and drag the right edge of a note in the selection.This changes both note length and sequence duration. (Alt + Right-Shift) will stretch in 25% increments.
  • Slice Tool - () allows you to split one or more notes in the direction of the cut through the Piano roll. To use the cuttool, make sure you're in cut mode (the Cut button is selected), Left-click in the grid area and drag to define the 'cut line' direction and length. Release the mouse button to split all notes at theirintersection point with the cut line.
  • Resize chords & splits - Hold (Left-Shift) click and drag on the slice point or right-side of the chord.
  • Playback/Scrub tool - () enables you to preview the current sequence by dragging horizontally in the Piano roll (thus enabling you to define the playback speed and order). Alternatively, hold (Alt) + Right-Click while in draw mode.
  • Play notes straddling the playback position marker - When stopping and starting you can play notes that cross the playback position by opening the Audio Options and selecting 'Play truncated notes'.
  • Quick chords - Enter chords with one click using the Piano roll Menu > Tools > Stamp Tool . The stamp tool allows you to add chords & note-patterns selected from a menu.
  • Note properties - Note velocity, panning, filter-cutoff, etc, are available from the Target control menu and appear in the Piano roll Event Editor. Note properties can be adjusted by mouse-wheel (Alt+mouse-wheel) by holding the cursor over a target note in the 'Note event window'.
  • Merging scores across Patterns - Place the Pattern Clips in the Playlist, with the Pattern Clip you want to receive the other scores at the top. Select all the clips to mergethen use the Edit > Merge pattern Clips function from the Playlist Menu. This merges the selected Pattern Clips into the uppermost Clip.
  • Click-and-hold functions in piano roll - Copy: Hold on an existing note. Slide & Porta: Click and hold when adding a note to cycle through slide, portamento event mode. See General Options settings.

Selection Stretch Handle

After making a selection the Stretch Handle appears. You can click and drag this to stretch the selected notes. Hold the (Alt) key to apply snap settings.Alternatively, hold (Right-Shift) key then click on the right-side of a note in the group and drag.

Mouse Wheel Property Note Changes

Hold your mouse over the note and hold (Alt+Mouse Wheel) to change the currently selected note property. To see the property being adjustedmaximize the vertical zoom.

Note Properties & Event Editor

The note properties editor gives you access to a number of per-note properties and event data velocity, pan, release, Mod X & Y (where supported), pitch etc. Select the data to be editedwith the Target control, as shown below.

  • Selecting Targets - Left-click to select from the menu. You can also roll your mouse-wheel while hovering over the selector.
  • Note properties - are displayed as vertical lines with a small circle at the top. The right-facing tail allows you to see the independent values of notes with the same start time.Note properties move with the notes they belong to. The editor can also display standard Event Automation associated with the pattern.NOTE: To edit the properties of a note when it has the same start time as others, make a selection first, then edit the property for the note (as shown above in red).
  • Note events - When editing Automation Events the editor works in the same way as the Event Editor.

Time Signatures

The default Project Time signature is set in the 'Project General Settings > Time settings > Set as time signature'. You can also set custom and even multiple Time Signatures per Pattern. And, since Patterns exist independent of the Playlist Time Signature, you can use multiple Time Signatures at any point in the Playlist (polyrhythms) by stacking Patterns using different Time Signatures. This flexibility means you need to manage your Pattern and Playlist time signatures independently.

NOTE:Time Signatures are a visual helper for the Piano roll and Playlist grids. They have no technical effect on the notes played, except for the downbeat heard when using the Metronome. You can safely change Time Signatures for the Pattern without affecting the notes, only the grid behind them changes. One Channel affects all - As Time Signatures are set per-Pattern, changing the Time Signature for any Piano roll (Channel) will affect ALL Channels in the Pattern. Use the Pattern Clip menu opton 'Make unique' to avoid this, if it is a problem.

TIPS: Here are some useful tips for working with Time Signatures. This applies both to the Piano roll and Playlist.

  • Set a custom Time Signature - Place the Play head at the point you want to set the new time signature and hold (Shift+Alt+T) to open the Time Signature tool.
  • Set a Time Signature range - Make a time selection and hold (Shift+Alt+T) to open the Time Signature tool. The Time Signature will return to the Project Default at the end of the selection.
  • Set a Time Signature based on the Pattern Clip location in the Playlist - Open the Clip Menu and select 'Use current time signature'
  • Move Time Signatures - Drag the Time Marker/s. Additionally you can use this feature to set partial bars of a given Time Signature.
  • More on Time Signatures - See: Playlist Time Signatures & Project General Settings.

Waveform Helper View

Sometimes it is useful to closely align notes with an audio waveform. For example when using Fruity Vocoder or Pitcher. To show the waveform drag from a waveform preview and drop on the Piano roll.To deselect this view use Piano roll menu > Helpers > Background waveform (Alt+N).

Understanding Slides & Portamento

The following ONLY applies to native FL Studio instruments. To slide a VST instrument automate the channel pitch knob. The Piano roll can slide notesfrom one pitch to another using slide notes above or below the notes to be affected. Slide notes have a small triangle drawn at the start of the note.

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  • Portamento Toggle ( O) - When selected, notes added to the Piano roll will display a 'portamento flag' ( icon). The portamento flag causes a short slide in pitch from the end of one note to the note with the portamento flag. This is a note transition effect. NOTES: 1. these features only work with native FL Studio instruments and not VST instruments. 2. Click-and-hold functions in piano roll - Click and hold when adding a note to cycle through slide, portamento note mode. See General Options settings.
  • Slide Toggle ( S) - When selected, notes added to the Piano roll become 'slide notes' displaying the slide icon () that causes notes, above or below the slide-note, to slide to the pitch of the slide-note. The slide-time is set by the length of the slide-note.
  • Add a slide note - Click the slide switch and then click as normal to add a note to the Piano roll.
  • De-select the slide mode - Click the slide button again.
  • Channel Settings > Misc - Polyphony > SLIDE (even if grayed out) will interact with Portamento notes, and Time > GATE will interact with Portamento and Slide notes.

NOTE: The General settings Click-and-hold & special gesture functions activate cycle slide/porta. Click and hold when adding a note to cycle throughslide & porta event modes.

How slide notes work

Slide notes are used to create 'glissando' effects. That is, a continuous slide upwards or downwards in pitch between two notes.

  • Notes - Slide notes must overlap the note they slide. A slide note, played on its own, without overlapping a standard note, will not produce sound. The length of the overlap sets the slide time.

    When the slide note is reached the pitch of the original (standard) note will start sliding toward the slide notes pitch, reaching the same pitch at the end of the slide note event. The length of the slide note controls the rate of pitch-changed of the slide. If the note being slid, ends before the slide notes pitch has been reached, the slide will terminate prematurely.

  • Chords - If notes are overlapping, so they form part of a chord, the topmost note is used as the reference for the pitch offset (see picture below). All notes in the Chord will slide so the topmost note reaches the same pitch as the slide note, with all notes in the chord moving the same note interval. After the slide event ends, notes still remain offset from their original pitch. Note colors can be used to create independent slides for up to 16 notes in a chord. Notes of the same color group, slide each other.

NOTE: Slide events have all the usual note properties (velocity, panning, cutoff and resonance, etc). During slides all note properties move toward those set in the slide note.Slides themselves do NOT produce sound, although they allow preview when created/moved.

How portamento notes work

Portamento applies only to the transition from one note to the next. This is basically a fast slide, only at note transitions. The effect is most audible when larger note intervals are used. The Portamento indicator should be set on the note to receive the portamento effect.

Color Groups (Slides, MIDI, Editing)

Editing - To select the note/slide color, click the Color selector then one of the 16 colors on the color group selector and click in the Piano roll to add notes. To change the color group of existing notes, make a selection and use the Piano roll menu > Edit > Change color (Alt+C) option.

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By creating color groups you can choose to edit the properties of only notes of the selected color. This can be handy when there are overlapping notes in the same Piano roll that you wish to manipulate independently. Colors are used for independent processing of notes in the Piano roll, these include:

  • MIDI Channels - Each color is locked to a particular MIDI channel. To see the relationships, hover the mouse over each color and lookat the hint bar where the MIDI channel number is displayed. NOTE: This only applies to plugins hosted by the Wrapper, in other words, these MIDI channels will onlybe visible to the plugin associated with the Piano roll. To control external MIDI hardware on separate MIDI channels use the MIDI Out plugin.
  • Sliding - Slides will apply only to notes of the same color as the slide note event. For example, yellow slide note will bend the pitch ofyellow notes, but will ignore green notes. This way you can have up to 16 notes sliding simultaneously in different directions.

    Slide color groups are also used with the Mono mode in the polyphony settings (see MiscellaneousChannel Settings). Mono mode applies to each color group separately. So using all four colors actually can result in a polyphony of up to 4 voices at once.

  • Recording notes - To record incoming MIDI Channels from a controller or MIDI sequencer to the correct MIDI note colors, Right-Click the instrument's Channel Rack button and activate the 'MIDI channel through' option.

NOTE: Some plugins use note colors for special functions. For example Harmless, Harmor and Slicex.

Note Properties Dialog

The Note Properties pop-up is an alternative way to set notes properties. It's particularly useful when you need to set different properties for notes that start simultaneously (so their propertiesappear as one in the integrated event editor). Double-click a note to display the properties pop-up box.

  • Levels - These controls allow changes to per note - panning (PAN), note on velocity (VEL), release velocity (REL), channel filter cutoff (MODX) and channel filter resonance (MODY). NOTE: MOD X/Y can also link to custom parameters as set in native plugins. Harmor has Mod X/Y controls that map to these parameters, for example.
  • Slide - Slide ON / Slide OFF. Determines if the note will respond to slide events. Porta - ON, inverts the portamento state for this note. If the global portamento (see Misc Channel Settings) for this channel is off, for this note it is on and vice versa.
  • Color - Click on this to select the color channel group the note is on.

    NOTE: If the note you double-click is a part of a selection, then the properties you set apply to all notes in that selection. The Time section is not available in that case, because the selected notes might have different length or start point.

  • Time - Change the Start Time (note position) in bar:step:tick. The length of a 'tick' depends on the PPQ setting. Reducing PPQ mid-song will reposition any notes not falling on an exact Bar or Step boundary.
  • Duration - Change the Note duration in bar:step:tick. The length of a 'tick' depends on the PPQ setting. Reducing PPQ mid-song will reposition any notes not falling on an exact Bar or Step boundary.
  • Reset - Resets note properties to levels they had before launching the properties box.
  • Accept - Apply your awesome changes!

Piano roll Menu

This menu provides many important functions for working with the Piano roll, such as copying and pasting notes, converting color groups, etc. You can accessPiano roll's menu by clicking the Piano roll menu button. For more information, see the Piano Roll menu page.

Multi-touch Gestures

See FL Studio User Interface > Multi-touch support

Piano roll keyboard shortcuts

See the Playlist Keyboard Shortcuts page.

Heute Morgen hat uns aus der Neuseeländischen Softwareschmiede Serato das Update für ITCH mit der Versionsnummer 2.0 erreicht, das einige langerwartende 'Features' bereithält. Außerdem wurde ein Release für das DVS System Serato Scratch LIVE, mit der Version 2.3 veröffentlicht. Beide Software Updates verstehen sich als BETA, was zur Folge hat, das diese nicht im LIVE Betrieb benutzt werden sollten, da sie noch einige Fehler enthalten. Eine Parallel Installation mit einem 'Stable Release' ist auf einem System jedoch möglich, die genaue Anleitung dazu findet Ihr hier. Eine Datensicherung sollte bei so einem Schritt als selbstverständlich angeshen werden, welches auch der Softwarehersteller Serato empfiehlt. Die Version für Scratch LIVE enthält nicht ganz so spannende Features wie ITCH 2.0, was dadurch eher als 'Bugfix' Version zu sehen ist.

ITCH 2.0

Features:
* SP-6 Sample Player: serato.com
* Brand Spanking New Look and Feel.
* Performance Modes (Library View, Vertical Waveforms and Stack Mode): serato.com
* Day & Night Mode: serato.com
* Album Art Views: serato.com
* Smart Crates: serato.com
* File Migration: serato.com
* Serato Playlists: serato.com
* New & Improved Serato Smart Sync. serato.com

Other Changes / Smaller Features:
* Beatgrid Lock: serato.com
* View buttons for (Xone:DX, NS6 and Twitch) now cycle through the performance modes.
* 4-deck Instant Doubles.
* Hot Cue Fader Start (When fader start is enabled and a cue point is set or triggered, the temp cue is set to that cue point's position).
* Slider added for font size.
* Shared Preferences.

Bug Fixes:
* Fixed Crossfader Reverse Keyboard shortcut (ctrl-shift-r).
* Changes made to minimize distortion in recordings when playing at loud levels.
* Corrected Continuous Mode behavior so that when you move past the beginning of a song while in this mode, the previous song doesn't load.
* Fixed Play button to flash at half the speed of the Cue button for all controllers supported with 1.7.
* You can no longer drag a deck onto itself to reload or instant double the song.
* Fixed miscellaneous crashes experienced by some users including when: relocating lost files, loading songs and exiting ITCH.
* Fixed bug where the scroll bar arrows would be slow to react when ITCH is reading large libraries.
* Fixed '[' and '' keys for looping.
* Fixed Windows crashes on start up when a database/crate contained a file with a file path greater than 259 characters.
* Fix for sleeping, disconnecting controller and then waking up Macbook incorrectly whilst staying in connected mode.

Numark Controller Specific:
* Decreased probability of spontaneous firmware updates with the NS7/V7.
* Fixed shift shortcuts to jump to a specific loop slot.
* Fixed Loop Select shift function to reloop as it did in ITCH version 1.5 and to turn off the shift/delete button.
* Stopped selected track from being added to the Prepare crate when hot-plugging or starting up with the controller connected.

NS6 Specific:
* Fixed bug where switching between Platter modes (Scratch and Jog) while using Skip could give unexpected results.
* New NS6 Firmware Version 1.18 with improved performance

V7 Specific:
* Fixed limiter triggering on the V7 when playing full scale tracks with 0db headroom

Xone:DX Specific:
* Fixed issue where Shift button goes into the wrong state if holding it down while switching layer.
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DDJ-S1 Specific:
* Fixed bug where the Vinyl Speed Adjust knob would instantly be applied to braking, but not acceleration.
* Fixed bug where Slip mode would not deactivate when moving to hardware disconnected mode.
* Fixed problem with Slip mode where ghost playhead could sometimes be using the wrong velocity while scratching.

FX Specific:
* Reduced pops created when switching effects and turning them on and off.

Known Issues:
* A crash may occur when hotplugging between ITCH Controllers.

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What's new in 2.3

- Cue Point Labels.
- 64-bit Drivers For Mac.
- Better THRU mode indication for the SL 2, SL 3 and SL 4.
- Core Audio/ASIO drivers for the SL 3 and Sixty-Eight.
- Improved Scratch Live user interface layout for minimum screen resolutions.

Full (detailed) List of Changes

Cue Point Labels
Cue points can now be labelled.

By double clicking the 'time-stamp' of a cue point, an edit box appear allowing you to enter a label for that cue point. Control-clicking the time-stamps/labels will toggle between the two views.

64-bit Drivers for Mac
The Mac installer now includes a 64-bit compatible driver, so that all Scratch Live hardware is now supported on 64-bit Mac OSX 10.6 and lower.
Please note: if you have a new Mac Book Pro running a 10.7 kernel, you must update to OSX 10.6.8 for a fix to hardware related crashes.

Better THRU mode indication for the SL2, SL 3 and SL 4
We have re-worked the way we display decks in THRU mode to make it much clearer if a deck is in THRU mode:

- Waveforms are grayed out
- Virtual decks are changed to black/white colors and have 'Thru' written on them.
- On-screen THRU buttons now flash.

Core Audio/ASIO drivers
- New drivers for the SL 3 and Sixty-Eight.

SL2 ASIO Version 1.0.1f4 (from 1.0.0a6)
- Fixed sleep/wake issues.
- Fixed 'Sound Forge ASIO buffers keep playing after Stop' bug.
- Improved 'thru' button responsiveness.

SL2 Core Audio Version 1.0.1f3 (from 1.0.0f2)
- Driver supports 64-bit kernel.
- Fixed bug where the Control Panel was not available after a System Preferences 'show all'.

SL4 ASIO Version 1.0.1f4 (from 1.0.0f5)
- Fixed sleep/wake issues.
- Fixed 'Sound Forge ASIO buffers keep playing after Stop' bug.
- Improved 'thru' button responsiveness.
- Fixed bug where the latency was incorrect for buffer sizes 45-50 ms at 96kHz.

SL4 Core Audio Version 1.0.1f2 (from 1.0.0f4)
- Driver supports 64-bit kernel.

Minimum screen resolution
With ever increasing user interface complexity and number of decks, we've worked to fit things sensibly on minimum resolution screens.

This version of Scratch Live will dynamically change the user interface layout if your screen resolution is too small to fit all Scratch Live UI features/panels:

- If a deck view is chosen so that the currently open panels (e.g. Files, Browse, SP-6, Video..etc) won't fit, the panels will be closed.
- If a tabbed panel is opened but can't fit on screen, Scratch Live goes into 'Library Mode' (where the decks are minimal in detail). To quickly navigate back to the old deck view you have several options:
* Press space - this action will close the new panel automatically.
* Select the desired view in the top left corner. As above, this will close the panel.
* Close the panel and it will go back to the old layout.
- Any forced action taken by Scratch Live will notify the user via the status bar and/or flashing the library mode buttons.
- Minimum library size has been reviewed, and some bugs fixed around sharing space with Browse/Files.

On-demand driver installer for Windows
This version of Scratch Live introduces on-demand installation of Rane hardware drivers. If you plug in a new piece of Rane hardware while running Scratch Live, you will be led through a process to install the drivers automatically.

Minor Changes:

Sixty-Eight
- Changed the names of the record drop down items for the Sixty-Eight, from PGMx to Inputx.
- Fixed cue point and loop LEDs flickering on the Sixty-Eight when pressed rapidly.
- Fixed the Sixty-Eight defaulting to assigning the free channels to the first two decks instead of the primary decks.

Video-SL
- Fixed potential hang caused by loading a track with an associated video.
- Fixed a crash on start up when an iTunes track has an associated video and the the Scratch Live preferences have just been deleted.
- Fixed an issue with video associated tracks always getting their tags written after ejecting the track.

The Bridge
- Fixed the number of bridge sync buttons showing up for the SL 3.
- Fixed issue with the Bridge GUI getting out of sync after a hotplug.
- Fixed bug where the Ableton pitch and output controls could be used when they have no effect.

Playback
- Improved stability of QuickTime audio file playback.
- Fixed the overview not redrawing properly when primary decks are set to '2+3' and a 4 deck controller is hotplugged.
- Fixed bug where option+clicking the gain knob would reset gain values even if the auto gain is turned off.
- Fixed bug where auto-loop buttons would light up when setting a manual loop.

Recording
- Fixed bug where the recording level meter was not showing correct values and therefore did not properly indicate if the recording was clipping.
- Set the default recording depth to be 16-bit for the SL 3 and Sixty-Eight.

DJ-FX
- Fixed bug where it was possible to have two effects units affecting deck. This resulted in incorrect button states, and prevented the user from turning off one of the effect units.

MIDI
- Fixed Scratch Live crashing when The Bridge is enabled and Ableton Live has Sync enabled in the MIDI/Sync preferences for any MIDI device.
- Fixed bug where using Hot Cues on controllers such as Novation Dicer and Sixty-Eight did not light up the physical cue point button when triggered from the GUI.
- Added a MIDI panel for SL 4.
- Fixed bug where the MIDI assign panel for the SL 3 Aux deck was not displaying correctly.

Offline Player
- Fixed Offline Player not working correctly on Mac when the default sound card is set to work at 88.2 or 96 kHz sampling rates.

Library
- Fixed a case of Scratch Live writing WAV files with the wrong alignment, disregarding the wav format specifications.
- Added the ability to double-click inside an open edit box to select an entire word.
- Fixed a bug where leaving an empty text field in the song entry was causing the status bar to say that Scratch Live is writing tags.
- Fixed Scratch Live status bar saying that it's writing to the file whenever a state of the file changed, even though the track was actually written to after ejected from the deck.
- Fixed 'sorting songs by color' not matching the order in the color picker.
- Fixed a crash when loading a track without a color to a deck.
- Fixed a bug where editing a track from a search result and pressing ctrl-up/down or enter would save the previous change to the wrong song.
- Fixed bug where iTunes tracks might show in the library despite 'Read iTunes Library' being disabled.
- Fixed a bug where tracks could not auto re-sort by color if one track color was changed.
- Changed browse panel filtering behavior so that is filters only when crates are opened or the browse panel is opened.
- Improved Scratch Live start up speed with the browse panel open.
- Fixed a graphical glitch where the 'Gated Live Feed' drop down text was showing up twice with a large font size.
- Reverted a chang introduced in Scratch Live 2.2 where the library would auto sort after a tag edit.
- Fixed a crash on 64-bit Windows when loading a track with creation dates older than 1970.
- Fixed potential crashes when loading a song via drag-n-drop.
- Fixed 'Files' button turning off when dragging and dropping a file/folder out of it, despite the panel remaining open.
- Fixed bug where new columns that were added to the history panel did not show up straight away if the horizontal scroll bar was activated.
- Can now search some international characters.

Crates
- Fixed a bug where empty fields in the Smart Crate rules were causing mismatches.
- Fixed a bug where Smart Crates with 'is not' rule were not updating correctly when tracks were changed.
- Fixed a bug where Subcrate songs that were also contained in the parent crates were being deleted from the parent on start up.

History
- Changed the history 'deck' column to display only numbers 1,2,3,4 not 'left'/'right' as this was not compatible with 4 deck controllers.

Dicers
- Fixed the Novation Dicer buttons not lighting up for deck 1 when primary decks are set to '1+4'.

CDJ Support
- Added support for the Pioneer CDJ-350.
- Made Scratch Live update the on-screen pitch range when pressing the 'TEMPO' button on a CDJ controller in HID mode.
- Fixed an issue when touching a platter not in VINYL mode would cause the sound to skip.
- Fixed Pioneer CDJ-900 connection issues after hot-plugging on a Windows machine.
- Fixed playback being paused when the platter was pressed and Cue button used.
- Fixed loop doubling not working on a CDJ-2000 (by pressing OUT & Loop Cutter).

GUI Changes
- Fixed some minor GUI misalignment issues where the border around the waveform in 2-deck stack-mode was too thick.
- Fixed the variation in line spacing between the DJ-FX and Playlists plug-ins screen.
- Fixed alignment issues with the waveform borders.
- When opening a widget (i.e. an SP6), the widget buttons now don't move up.
- Fixed some GUI issues in the TTM 57SL Hardware setup screen; fixes the bugs for saving effects and phono sensitivity to the mixer.
- Fixed GUI artifacts showing up in the Ableton panel when the screen is resized.
- Fixed bug where the edit box on the MIDI preset screen may not get focus when attempting to save a new preset.
- Fixed MIDI panel not switching to library mode when it doesn't fit on screen.
- Fixed bug where the assign drop box would show up in the TTM 57SL hardware panel if the device was in group select mode.

File formats
- Fixed not being able to delete loops in QuickTime files.
- Fixed not being able to delete loops in Ogg files.
- Fixed bug where non mpeg4 files that were playable by QT were being marked as corrupt and no xml meta data was being created. (includes. .flv and some .avi files).
- Fixed 'nonsense' characters being written to the message box during an mpeg4 file write.

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Misc. Hardware
- Fixed bug where autoloop buttons were missing when a Rane MP 4 is plugged into Scratch Live.
- Removed channel reversing with Rane MP 4 devices.
- Fixed function keys on Denon DN-HC4500 not lighting up in memo (hot queue) mode.
- Fixed bug where phono sensitivity boxes for the SL 3 were showing up when the SL 3 was in line mode.
- Fixed SL 4 bug where only deck 1 and 2 would affect the Video-SL decks. Now it uses the same behavior as the Sixty-Eight, which means the primary decks will affect the Video-SL decks.
- Fixed channel selection bug where channels could be stolen from another computer while audio was playing (SL 4 and Sixty-Eight).

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Miscellaneous
- Fixed function key presses on some Windows laptops causing pitch slider movements.
- Fixed album art related crashes experienced in Scratch Live 2.2.0.
- Fixed SP6 mode buttons not updating.
- Changed the A-slot (autoloop) functionality to match the description in the manual.
- Fixed focus issues with the 'tap temp control'.
- Fixed edit box max character limitation.
- Fixed bug where loading a track with a deleted beatgrid wouldn't auto create a new beatgrid. Note that this will only work when autofill overviews is on.
- If doing a relocate lost files moves .xml and .ovb so that a directory is made empty, that directory is now deleted.
- Fixed bug where if you changed the size of the autoloop currently running, the start of the loop would be changed to the current playhead position.
- Added zero check for sample rate in CreateRow in CSongOverview.
- Fixed bug where autoloop would not disengage.
- Fixed waveform not showing up when in Loop edit mode in the A slot.
- Fixed some debugging code that was making the 57's firmware button always visible.
- Fixed library losing focus when the scroll bar was clicked.
- Fixed auto gain knob behavior.
- Fixed the nonsense characters being written to the message box during an mpeg4 file write.
- Fixed MIDI assign panel for the Aux deck not displaying correctly.

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