
One thing you definitely want to do is select your soundcards native ASIO driver in the Input/output box (or choose ASIO4ALL if there is no native driver – ASIO4ALL is a generic driver that supports most soundcards). You can open this via Options Audit Settings in the main menu (or use F10 and select Audio Settings). One thing you want to make sure is that you have selected the appropriate Audio settings in the Setting dialog. In case you are not really familiar with the Mixer, you may want to read one of my other tutorials: FL Studio Mixer After you stop recording FL Studio will automatically place an audio clip with the recorded audio in your Playlist (this feature is enabled by default, but can be disabled).īefore exploring both options, see also the screenshot of the Mixer below and make sure you are familiar with the view and its controls: Via this option you also specify an external input on an insert track, but instead of using Edison, the external audio is recorded to disk. After recording you can edit and export the audio (save to disk) via the same Edison tool.Īnother option is to record to disk. In this way audio will be recorded into memory. One option is to specify an external input on an insert track of your choice (but never the master track) and place the Edison tool (integrated audio recording and editing tool) in one of the effect slots. Recording can be achieved in a number of ways (via the Mixer). While this tutorial only scratches the surface of recording, it should at least get you started. On several occasions I simply picked a poem and read it out loud – then manipulated it and used it for my compositions. Once recorded I can do almost anything with it and mold it into something really cool. No longer was my below average voice any problem. Until I discovered the fun of recording audio and using effects to process it in various ways. So this feature of FL Studio was not relevant for me. I’ve never paid too much attention to this as I neither can sing nor play a ‘real’ instrument.


In FL Studio you can record external audio sources that are connected to your soundcard inputs.


FL Studio 9 (and 8) tutorial explaining how to record and manipulate external audio.
