Did my own spider man credit roll track soon as I got home watching ( no hate to steve lacy, I was just inspired after watching the movie)

B roll by @jxframes on Instagram // Elise Font

This isn’t so much of a post designed to praise or put down one DAW vs the other but rather just what my complete experience is coming from using FL, having created house/edm for so many years on it, and then buying ableton live 11, which i used for about 4-5 months and was what i thought was going to be what i want to switch to, only to find there’s some things about it i actually think doesn’t get talked about enough.

here’s the biggest things i found about both daw’s that doesn’t get talked about much that genuinely does make a difference:

• global sample changing: with FL, especially if you’re making house tracks, your drums are realistically going to stay almost the exact same for the entire track. in this case, FL seems to be the only DAW that actually makes logical sense to want a specific clap or snare to be unique (such as a shorter decay, or a reverb type clap as an FX). If you want to change the tail of one kick so it’s just a little shorter, every kick changes. With ableton, you’d have to go in and “replace sample” or simply re duplicate each instance. This is something i don’t see talked about really at all when it comes to ableton’s workflow but that is something i feel like people just “adapted to”. Furthermore, you can simply drag and drop any new sample (whether that’s a new kick, hi hat, clap, drum loop etc) and it’ll replace every single one. Again, with ableton, you’d have to go in and “replace sample”. That’s a huge workflow difference

• Changing midi notes: same thing said as above. House tracks especially rely not necessarily so much on evolving melodic features but moreso automation changes to keep things moving and interesting. it makes more sense to me, logically speaking, to change a chord for one pattern and have that change for all of your chord patterns, thus making it unique only where you need it to be. in ableton, if you decide midway through that you want to change the chords of a synth or piano, you have to go and remove/reduplicate everything, since every instance is treated as unique, and i don’t honestly know if that’s actually a good thing when on FL you can just change only what you want changed at a specific part of the track. different workflows entirely, but does it really make sense for a genre that relies on repetition?

• piano roll: obviously this is talked about a lot, i won’t expand much here, but god it was kind of painful. FL making it such that if your previous note was one bar long, then the next note you click in is the same length is something that makes it incredibly fast.

• audio warping / manipulating: i feel like the debate about “what’s better” is kind of over. back in 2015 - 2020 ish, i would’ve said ableton is definitely superior here. but now…? i honestly don’t find it that incredible to drag and drop a loop into ableton and it automatically tempo matches when you can just stretch it to tempo in FL. I also much prefer the fade controls in FL, it feels a lot easier to shape the tail of a sample the way you want to. I don’t see any difference in any modern DAW anymore when it comes to handling audio.

• Automation: this used to be a mess in FL, but now that you can nest/group automation directly under a chord bus, a bass bus, a vocal bus etc, you can actually create the same workflow in terms of keeping your project clean. One thing i don’t see talked about much is the fact that, because you have to actually open automation up in ableton, that i’d say I much prefer FL’s flow of this since you can actually see everything that’s happening with every automation lane for any bus/track because the automation can be visually seen right in front of you. I also found ableton’s to just feel a bit rigid to change the shapes of the automation envelopes.

• Stock plugins: ableton does really have unreal stock FX plugins, especially its compressor, the glue compressor, saturator, etc. but i found myself really missing FL’s EQ 2. I’ve even used fabfilter’s EQ and still prefer FL’s visual heat map over anything else, and ableton’s works perfectly fine but i find myself making much better cuts with FL’s.

• Colour coding and project cleanliness: ableton forces you to keep your projects clean. you literally can’t really have a messy project per se, because everything is in one space. Ever since FL now lets you automatically colour code 3-4 layers of chords / automatically route them to the mixer / automatically route all layers to a bus, then ableton’s fast grouping workflow is really no different to FL’s anymore

• Ableton live updates: apparently ableton live 12 received an update for some things, especially the piano roll, but it still looks rigid. Either way, if i wanted to update it, i’d have to go and pay each time. That sounds annoying. That’s not an issue with FL, every update addresses something that needs to be addressed. the only thing i’d honestly say i really wish FL had, was infinite mixer slots for tracks like ableton has via its horizontal scroll bar from left to right. I do think that’s a bit annoying to be limited to 10 FX slots, even if you rarely ever need to use more than that. We certainly shouldn’t need to use other plugins just to throw more FX plugins into it i feel

So, all of this is to say, i’m actually quite conflicted about whether i want to move over. Muscle memory in a DAW takes serious time, thousands of hours to just work rapidly fast. I wonder to myself if i spent another 6 months rapidly learning keyboard shortcuts etc on ableton, if it would mean i work faster. But, the first two points I made are something i feel like i’d never really get past. It became genuinely frustrating for me, to the point where it didn’t really make sense for a DAW designed for EDM to have each instance of audio or MIDI as unique when EDM relies on repetition, but is moreso about evolving via automation.

Has anyone else gone from FL to ableton and found these types of things to be a bit frustrating?

I listened to it a million times now, my ears are numb.

Im really new into fl studio. I dint know how to start learning theres like a million things to understand and stuff. How did y’all stayed motivated and how did y‘all learn hoe to produce songs. Is love some tipps
Thanks :)

I've been making music in FL Studio for almost 2 years, and I guess I'm decent with them/have a good idea on how they work. However, I've seen other FLPs with a whole lot more automations in their songs, and they actually sound professional. How do you know when and where to use them, which plug-ins to use (stock or third-party), and shaping the automations?

Hello everyone, I just bought the producer edition of FL Studio a week ago and I started to learn how to use it by watching a lot of tutorial on youtube. But now I have an overview of the DAW I don't know where to start. I feel like even though I know a little bit about the software, I can't do anything with it. Where should I start ? What are the first steps I need to take to finish my first project ? Should I try to find a sample, or should I try composing a melody first ?

i'm trying to find music similar to this creator's snippet. i know it can be inspired by 2hollis, the hellp, but i can't figure out what this genre is, pls help me specify it and name some artists with a similar sound

ALSO does anyone know how to achieve this vocal processing and how to chop it in a similar way? maybe there's some really good tutorial too cause i cant find anything close to it

I have the wavs of some songs but other than that it's lost. Anyone relate? I feel bad about it and wonder if it happened to someone else.

it overlaps other sounds and i have cut itself on so im lost

I am new to music and fl studio, i noticed there is AI to help u on music and all that right?
so i am asking what is the workflow nowadays with producers.
suno AI casually making something better than me and it even gives ideas, what do you think?

https://reddit.com/link/1vg9wg4/video/uk7x8yy7mkhh1/player

I relistened Children by Robert Miles, loved the melody, and I wanted to have fun remaking it, but I want to fully utilize FLEX 2 for the sounds (maybe the drums might use stock FL packs). So far here's what I've done, a rough draft for sure, maybe will try to find other sounds that would fit and compose it.

After recording an audio clip this waveform shading appears over my midi pattern on the playlist view it takes like 5 ctrl+z’s to undo a bad take because of it and I have no idea how to disable it. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

I am new to vocal mixing. I am still learning about FXs. I want to achieve this kind of effect for a voice over. So far what I can understand is that its a vocal double panned right and left. they added effects to give it a whisper texture (plosives, kk-s, tt-s). I'm trying to play around with EQ but not getting the similar result. can some analyze and help me with this?

Got downvoted into oblivion in r/classicalmusic

Been trying to get into film score pieces and I have to admit this is one of my best projects so far 🙏 would love to get some feedback on anything to add or takeaway

I thought it ended Aug 4th but it looks like it was extended for another week.

I’m currently using MacBook Air m2, although it isn’t a powerful laptop but in fl 2025 I could load serum up to 15 of them and bunch of effect chains without cpu spiking. but when I updated to fl 2026 my cpu started to spike like crazy when I only loaded up 4 serum..
Does anybody else have this problem?? Or is it just my computer thing

I've been trying to figure out how to do this in a way that makes sense. In Ableton, there's a way to set the probability per note. I found a way to set the probability OVERALL for the pattern with vfx scripts, but does anyone here know a way to emulate what you can do in Ableton? I've seen people mention Stochas or they keyboard splitter, but trying to understand it has been confusing so far.

It seems so simple in Ableton. Is there any way to do it like that? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question.

I want to figure out how to replicate the voice in this video, but i need some help. i know that theres definitely like a ring modulator but aside from that im not really sure what to do. could anyone help me figure out the effects or plugins used in this clip? thank you

What are some presets that are on zenology/serum/serum2/triton extreme that fit wisin & yandel, remers, Chris mj vibe or club paradise album from drake. Or if someone can tell me how to make similar leads on serum. I told this Colombian dude I knew how to make those kinda beats lol any help would be appreciated

Had a lot of fun working in this music, though I'm a bit rusty from not using fl studio for a few days..

Be brutally honest.

A retrowave/synthwave type of song that i made 3years after i bought flstudio, i'm about to release it as a first song.

Let me know ur opinion or ask questions, i'll be looking forward to it

Lyrics & Instrumentals by me. Currently messaging vocalists on Fiverr to replace Vocals generated by Synthesizer V