How to Use a Computer Keyboard With FL Studio
Clicking around the FL Studio piano roll to enter MIDI notes can be a tedious process. If you want to play the instruments in this digital audio workstation in a more intuitive way, you can control them using your computer keyboard. FL Studio's "Typing Keyboard to Piano Keyboard" feature maps a virtual MIDI keyboard to your computer keyboard, allowing you to play virtuosic synthesizer melodies without attaching any external hardware to your computer.
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Instructions
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Launch FL Studio. Click "Options," then click "Typing Keyboard to Piano." The orange light next to the keyboard icon at the top of the screen illuminates.
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Right-click the keyboard icon. Click on the scale that you want to map to the computer keyboard. If you want to play in a blues scale, for example, select "Blues;" if you don't want to use any specific scale, select "Piano."
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Click "Channels," then "Add One." Click on the instrument that you want to play in FL Studio -- "Sakura," for example, or "Slayer."
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Press a key on the computer keyboard to play a note on the instrument. The number keys and the "ASDF" row correspond to the black keys on a piano keyboard; the other two rows play the white keys.
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Tips & Warnings
To play a chord with the computer keyboard, hold down two or more keys at the same time.
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