
Toolbar – Has a set of buttons that determine the drawing mode you are in. Quick tools – A quicker way to get access to often used tools (also accessible via the Piano Roll options). Piano Roll options – Via this menu you can access various options for managing, arranging and editing your note event patterns. Keyboard – This is what it says it is, a keyboard. Each note event represents a note for the channel in question and controls when a sound will be played. Note events – this is what it is all about, to create patterns of note events. We’ll come to that in a minute, but for the sake of understanding and making sure we ‘speak the same language’, I’ll first explain the concepts shown above. Can I not just start drawing or something?’. You may think ‘holy cow, that is a lot of stuff. While not discussing every cool feature, after this tutorial you should be able to create complex note event patterns quickly. Now, assuming that you have a clue what the Piano Roll is about, we will have a closer look at the most common features it has to offer. Recommended reading: Step Sequencer, Playlist and Piano Roll
If you are not at all familiar with this view and other important views (such as Step Sequencer and Playlist), I recommend you first check out the tutorial listed below:
The Piano Roll is one of the central views in FL Studio. FL Studio tutorial explaining the piano roll view.