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given there are over 100 fl studio shortcuts, it probably seems a bit daunting trying to find ones which are actually worth learning, so i thought i'd write a list of the ones i use on a regular basis in case it's useful for anyone. of course, i'm probably missing some and you can find a list of them on the fl studio website if you want a more comprehensive list :3

also feel free to rechost this and add more, or reply to this with shortcuts u use a lot personally!! maybe i'm missing some good ones

ctrl + b

'but what about ctrl c and ctrl v??' those work in fl studio, but my main issue with them is that they often place things in rather awkward places; most of the time when i would copy and paste something it'd be because i want to duplicate a part to repeat it, and ctrl+b just duplicates something but always places it just after the duplicated thing. i use this in both the playlist and piano roll a lot; it's worth noting that in the piano roll if ctrl+b doesn't put something where you want it, you can always see if selecting the region using the select tool and the grey bar just above the piano roll (the bit with the bar numbers) and then ctrl+b-ing that works better


shift + click and drag

for when ctrl+b doesn't work, basically. this just lets you move something, but you're moving a duplicate and the original stays in its place, if that makes sense. you can just do it to an individual thing, or you can select a bunch of patterns/notes/etc and do this for all of them. i also use this a lot in both the playlist and piano roll

shift + click and drag (automation points)

this is slightly different - it won't create a duplicate, but if you hold shift while moving an automation point it'll stay at the same value. this just makes it easier if you're dealing with having to move automation points which you set at very precise values. not a massive thing but it's useful and easy enough to remember if you use shift click for the other stuff too

alt + click and drag

you can and should (imo) try doing things without snap mode every once in a while to see if you like the feel of it more, but i end up using a snap mode most of the time just because it makes things quicker and works fine most of the time for the stuff i want to make anyway. that being said, sometimes you want to break free from snap (e.g. moving an arhythmical effect slightly in the playlist, or creating a grace note/acciaccatura in the piano roll). you can just hold alt and then drag something to solve this! (you can thank @adibabidan for making me aware of this one. i use it constantly)

ctrl + select area

in both the piano roll and playlist i'm usually using the brush tool, but often i want to select stuff for whatever reason while using the brush tool. you could just use the select tool, but you can also just hold down ctrl and select an area if you know you're gonna be going back to using the brush tool right after

ctrl + c, ctrl + v

i know i just slandered these shortcuts earlier. but stay with me. these are still useful sometimes; the main use i find for them is copying whole patterns to new parts. you know that small grey rectangle to the right of the instrument name in the channel rack? if you select that it selects all the stuff in that pattern for that instrument, and if you ctrl+c that then you can select one of the other grey rectangles and ctrl+v it onto that, instead of going into the piano roll for each instrument

ctrl + g

this merges stuff together. i only found out about it recently but i've mostly been using it for combining multiple patterns when i need to change something for every pattern involving a specific instrument, so i can do it without doing it to each pattern individually (this could be useful for transposing parts for instance (which you can do by right clicking on a pattern in the pattern picker)). some people would just write everything in one pattern to start with, but my stuff is usually split across a bunch of patterns because i use a lot of repetition in my stuff

del

it deletes stuff

ctrl + left click drag over mixer channels

this lets you select multiple mixer channels, and then route them all to the same place. useful for routing a bunch of stuff to a sidechain bus, for instance

ctrl + alt + c

consolidates/renders the selection in the playlist; i mainly use this when i want to have a reverse into something, but it's midi (what i'd usually do is make a new pattern with just a single note, put a bunch of reverb on it temporarily then consolidate that to get a slow reverse into something)

bonus: make unique

this isn't a shortcut, but i wish i'd known about it sooner - if you click on the top left of a pattern or audio clip or automation clip, there's an option to 'make unique', meaning any changes to that thing won't affect copies of it elsewhere (this is very useful if you work by having a lot of small-ish patterns like me for anything using repetition)

a note

i often use the typing keyboard as a midi controller (like for instance when i'm designing a synth sound but haven't written the part for it yet), so i don't usually use many of the shortcuts which interfere with this, but if you don't do this then there are a bunch of other shortcuts which may be useful to you, like the single letter shortcuts for different tools


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