FL Studio Intermediate
About Course
Turn your ideas into finished tracks with pro-level sampling, arrangement, and production techniques. FL Studio Intermediate is a hands-on course that teaches you to work faster, sound better, and finish more music. You’ll master the creative tools producers actually use: chopping and flipping samples like your favorite beatmakers, programming drums with groove and impact, building arrangements that hit hard, and adding automation that brings tracks to life.
You’ll learn to slice and manipulate audio using Fruity Slicer, SliceX, and Edison. This includes chopping breaks, reversing textures, pitching vocals, and timestretching loops while keeping everything musical. You’ll speed through the piano roll with ghost channels, scale helpers, and note properties that add swing, dynamics, and realism. You’ll structure tracks in the playlist with pattern splitting, stems, and automation clips that create movement and transitions. And you’ll organize your Fruity Loops sessions with smart templates, color coding, and plugin management so you spend less time clicking and more time creating.
The course also covers the technical essentials that keep your workflow smooth: setting up audio interfaces and MIDI controllers for stable, low-latency performance, balancing buffer size and CPU load, and detecting tempo and key so unlabeled samples drop right into your projects. By the end, you’ll have a dependable FL Studio setup and a repeatable process for turning ideas into finished sections with less friction.
What You’ll Learn
- Chop, slice, reverse, pitch, and timestretch with Fruity Slicer, SliceX, and Edison
- Work faster in the Fruity Loops piano roll with ghost channels, scale highlighting, and precision editing tools
- Program drums that knock using step sequencer workflows and detailed MIDI editing
- Build dynamic arrangements with playlist patterns, stems, and automation clips
- Add groove and feel with velocity, timing, panning, and note property adjustments
- Organize sessions with custom templates, smart routing, and clean plugin layouts
- Detect tempo and key of samples using FL Studio’s built-in tools
- Set up audio and MIDI hardware for stable, low-latency recording and playback
- Balance buffer settings and CPU load for smooth performance across recording, mixing, and playback
Meet Your Instructor
Larry Ohh is one of the most recognized FL Studio educators in the world, with a massive online following and nearly two decades of experience teaching producers how to make better music. His tutorials and tips have reached millions of aspiring beatmakers, and has built his reputation on sharing his deep knowledge of FL Studio’s stock tools. His production credits include work with artists like Peter Piffin, Cory Gunz, and Hi Rez, with releases on labels such as Tribal Trap and Trap City. Larry collaborates with leading audio brands such as Image Line, Cymatics, Steven Slate, and Mixed In Key, and teaches production with a focus on accessibility, creativity, and hands on execution.
Is This Course for You?
This course is perfect for producers who already know FL Studio basics and want to level up. If you’ve got ideas but they die in your DAW because you’re stuck menu-diving, fighting latency, or can’t get your samples to sound right, this is for you. Beatmakers who want to flip samples creatively, electronic producers building full arrangements, and anyone who wants a faster, cleaner workflow will see immediate results.
What’s Included
- Session Setup & Technical Foundation: Configure audio and MIDI hardware, eliminate latency, create reusable templates, and detect key and tempo for seamless sampling.
- Piano Roll Mastery: Essential editing shortcuts, ghost channels, scale tools, and note properties to write faster, stay in key, and add professional-level groove and expression.
- Arrangement & Production Workflow: Organize plugins, program impactful drums, structure tracks in the playlist, and use automation to create movement and polish.
- Creative Sampling Techniques: Chop, stretch, reverse, pitch, and layer samples using the playlist, Fruity Slicer, SliceX, and Edison. Turn raw audio into fully developed musical ideas.
Course Content
Setting Up
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03:39
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03:55
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Session Templates
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Detecting Key and Tempo
05:30
