

Similar to transposing by octave, this shortcut will transpose your selection by semi-tone. This is a great way to experiment with your notes. You might use this shortcut to develop bass lines for your melodies, or vice versa. When working with MIDI notes, this shortcut will transpose your selection up or down by octave. This is a good shortcut to remember if you find yourself accidentally creating a new note in the Piano roll when attempting to left-click to remove a selection. Use the Ctrl + D shortcut to deselect your selection. When you’re finished editing your selection, you’ll need to deselect it. It’s also a quick way to loop a selection of notes without looping the region in the Playlist. Then you can make changes to the duplicated section using the original section as a reference. This is useful for copying notes to extend the region. Instead of pasting a selection at the marker, this shortcut will duplicate your selection to the right. Similar to the Paste command above, this is another essential shortcut. These shortcuts will probably be some of your most used when you need to quickly apply notes in the Piano roll. Use Ctrl + C to copy your selection to the clipboard, and use Ctrl + V to paste the selection at the marker. These shortcuts are basic – the same across the operating system – but they’re still essential. Then you can apply whatever changes you want to make at once.

This shortcut eliminates all that wasted time by selecting all the notes in the Piano roll. Normally, you would click and drag your mouse across all the notes you want to highlight.Īnd if your screen isn’t large enough, you would have to scroll to capture all the notes… Selecting notes in the Piano roll is slow. Toggle ghost channels on or off (Alt + V)Ĭontinue reading for details on each FL Studio shortcut.Shift selection left or right (Shift + Left/Right).Transpose selection up/down 1 semi-tone (Shift + Up/Down).Transpose selection up/down 1 octave (Ctrl + Up/Down).Deselect the highlighted notes (Ctrl + D).Duplicate your selection to the right (Ctrl + B).Copy/paste your selection (Ctrl + C/Ctrl + V).
