How to Use a Fruity Peak Controller
Add an instance of Fruity Peak Controller to your FL Studio projects for creating automation effects. Fruity Peak Controller is plug-in software included within FL Studio, which acts as a noise gate effect with added routing capabilities. Insert the plug-in into a mixer channel with audio being routed to it to achieve a side-chain compression effect. Route your audio track to either FL Studio Fruity Peak Controller's "LFO," "Peak" or "Peak and LFO," setup configuration and start tweaking the rest of the settings in less than five minutes.
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Instructions
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Launch FL Studio and open a project. Double-click on the FL Studio desktop icon, and then select "File" when the program is completely loaded. Click "Open," select the project from the list with your mouse and then click "Open" again.
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Select the audio or MIDI track to have the effect applied to it. Click on the channel's name, and select an empty FX mixer channel number from the "FX" box at the top-right corner of the pop-up screen.
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Launch an instance of Fruity Peak Controller. Open the mixer screen by clicking the "Mixer" icon at the top of the screen, then select the mixer "Insert" channel you assigned the audio or MIDI instrument channel to earlier. Click the down arrow button on the first effects slot in the chain of eight that is not being used, then select "Fruity Peak Controller" from the list that appears.
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Assign the parameter for the Fruity Peak Controller to modulate. Right-click the parameter, such as another instrument's output level and select either "Peak Ctrl - LFO," "Peak Ctrl - Peak" or "Peak Ctrl - Peak+LFO" from the list of options for setup. Select "Peak Ctrl - LFO" to assign a low frequency oscillator controller to the audio signal without the audio influencing the effect. Select "Peak Ctrl - Peak" to control the audio's signal from another parameter or "Peak Ctrl - Peak+LFO" to combine the LFO effect and amplitude modulation together.
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Adjust the "Peak" section parameters. Turn the "Base (BAS)" wheel to determine the offset value of the controller and then the "Volume (VOL)" wheel to set how audio peaks control the effect's output level. Move the "Tension (TNS)" knob either up or down to change the curvature of the effect's slope as desired. Turn the "Decay (DEC)" knob right to shorten the effect or to the left to sustain it from fading.
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Adjust the "LFO" section for optimal results. Select either square, sine, saw, triangle or noise as the shape of the LFO by pressing the appropriate button. Adjust the "Volume (VOL)" and "Tension (TNS)" wheels as you did before for the "Peak." Turn the "Speed (SPD)" wheel to set how fast the shape will oscillate and then the "Phase (PHS)" to determine the LFO offset, or start position.
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Tips & Warnings
Activate the "Ramp Switch" option to prevent pops and clicks from occurring while linked parameters are moving at higher rates. Activate the "Mute Switch" to quiet the audio being sent through the effect plug-in, leaving only the automated peaks.
Fruity Peak Controller only works with FL Studio.
