Fair enough mate, I only got into FL at 11 so I never used the block system but heard it was a pain in the arse for people when they got rid.

I'm looking to upgrade to 12 soon but I'm a little worried about the upgrade due to the possible effect it may have on my plugins. Might have to research a bit and see what others' experiences have been.

Compressors work in a different way than just changing the volume of the audio overall, and it also depends on what it is you're compressing.

So, assuming you're talking about a compressor on a master chain of a completed track, when you say can't you just automate the volume to reduce the loud parts, you can, but you'll also be reducing the quiet and more subtle sounds on that same section. The compressor should reduce the dynamic range of anything that passes through it and makes everything sound more "equal" as opposed to just dropping the volume overall.

This also means that you can enhance the quieter sounds as well without really affecting the louder stuff. So whilst your peak can remain at 0db, the track will sound louder because the quieter sounds have been raised.

Google "Loudness War"

Hope this helps

Hi guys.

I'm currently working on a track for a label so I want to get the track done before I take a short break from music and upgrade my software.

I'm currently on FL Studio 11 which is 32-bit and so are all of my plugins at the minute so I only have access to a portion of what my computer is capable of. At this point it isn't becoming too difficult to get a track about 3/4 done before it starts stuttering and glitching with all tracks in play so I'm trying to find the best way to bounce my stems for a mixdown as it's damn near impossible to do anything accurately whilst it's running like this.

My options so far that I'm aware of are:

1. Arm each channel to record with the FX turned off, then when they've rendered to the playlist as WAVs, re-route them to the respective channels and switch the effects back on so I can still control them for the mix down.

2. Similar method but split the mixer tracks in the render window and import them all from fresh (keeping some effect FX for the stem but not ones that affect the mix like reverb if that makes any sense?).

3. Give up music forever because I'm fucking clueless.

I'm running a few hefty-ish plugins, the main two hoggers appear to be Spire and Omnisphere.

Any ideas would be massively appreciated, and I'm interested to know what you guys do when bouncing stems.

Quote from: TylerWildman on January 11, 2016, 10:41:50 am

Is there a full size version of that image? Interested to see the tracks and groupings

if you're not lazy, try to find it on his twitter
but i think that one's the biggest

Found it on Twitter, you're right that one is the biggest

Madeon has a profile on here too, maybe he'll come across this and be the nice guy he is

Is there a full size version of that image? Interested to see the tracks and groupings

You can route as many channels as you want, you can tweak how much amplitude levels of reverb each channel will get but not the settings individually, for that you need to add a reverb effect on that particular channel, otherwise everything can route directly to it.

And I use FL Studio!

Ahhh I see! I'm glad you use FL as I can visualise more clearly how I'd do it myself. Do you have the reverb sat on a mixer channel with the other channels going through it or do you use one of the send channels on the right side of the mixer and use it in a different way? I've never used those before myself so I'm not confident on how they work, could be missing a trick.

For entry level budget monitors, they're great, my only issue is the low-end. It's damn near impossible to get an accurate bass mix out of them.

I'm looking at Adam F5 or possibly F7 for my next pair, unless anybody has any better suggestions?