FL Studio’s mixer has four dedicated send tracks as well as the ability to use any other track as a send. This is fine for most purposes, but forces you to burn a track if you want to process a signal separate from the regular (i.e., not sent) audio before routing it to a send. With Patcher, you can process and send audio without using up any extra mixer tracks.

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Bitcrushing is a great way to add some lofi crunchiness to your tracks, although it can be difficult to control. Dither can help fine-tune the bitcrushing effect to get exactly the sound you want.

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Image-Line’s Slicex makes it easy to modify and mangle your chopped-up audio with envelopes, LFOs and parameter randomization, but you may have missed how exactly to get the pitch of some slices to change randomly. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make parts of your loops swoosh around in pitch, in various amounts.

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Gated reverb is a fun effect to use on drums, but is usually implemented as a parallel process using a send from one mixer track into another. With Patcher in FL Studio, we can set up a gated reverb as an insert, using only one effect slot and no extra tracks.

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While FL Studio’s native convolution plugin is usually used for reverb, it can also be used to create interesting delay effects quickly and intuitively. With a short impulse sound and some step sequencing, you can have a custom delay line in a few minutes, even adding crazy reverb to it as well.

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Playlist clips in FL Studio can be sliced up and rearranged, which is an easy way to add fills and syncopated variations to drums. Once we have some variations, we can merge the clip slices and then clean it up a bit in the piano roll.

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FL Studio comes with pretty much everything you need to make most sounds, but there might be something else you like to use, like an audio editor or some other audio application. FL Studio has an extremely useful ‘external tools’ feature that makes it easy to edit sounds with an application outside of FL Studio right from the browser.

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