


Master levels – left and right channel levels coming from the master bus in the Mixer.Master monitor – an oscilloscope showing the Master bus waveform.Current song position – in minutes, seconds, and centiseconds by default.Current Pattern – click or scroll to change.Global grid snap – allows snapping to specified grid snap interval in the Playlist and Piano roll.Metronome – this thing keeps time, useful when recording live instruments.Tempo – how fast do you want to go? It’s in beats per minute, BPM.Playback mode – control whether or not to play the entire song in the Playlist, or just the current Pattern.Don’t worry if you don’t understand some of the terms yet. The top toolbar has a lot of buttons and indicators. Let’s take a look at some of the basics of FL Studio. Effects – they change the audio signal in some way, and are hosted in the Mixer FX panel slots.Generators – they generate an audio signal and are hosted in the Channel rack.These can be things like reverb modules, compressors, samplers, synthesizers, equalizers (like Fruity Parametric EQ 2), and the list goes on and on into infinity… VST plugins in FL Studio fall under two categories: Within the DAW, there are other 3rd party pieces of software called VST plugins.

A DAW is a special software package that musicians and producers use to create, edit, record, arrange, mix and sample audio. FL Studio is a DAW (digital audio workstation) developed by a company in Belgium called Image-Line.
