FL Studio Users, I need help

[Music Fiend]

I can't seem to get my keyboard to work properly on FL

I can play notes and record but whenever I record the keys I'm playing, the notes never line up in time with what I'm playing on the piano roll.

I'll play chords or record drums perfectly on beat and on time, but the piano roll will have the notes lagging behind, random timing issues, etc. I'll have to manually go in and either quantize or shift groups of notes to hit on the correct beat.

I thought it could be latency so I brought my latency from 20ms to 5ms and it's the same.

I'm not sure what to and I don't want to go to settings and change offset properties to get my recordings right. I shouldn't have this problem especially with low latency.

 

[King Musa]

Click on the piano roll.....Click the tab you see at the top left besides the Rench icon and go to the tab titled "snap", Click the "none" option in that area and tell me if that makes a difference.

 

[Music Fiend]

Click on the piano roll.....Click the tab you see at the top left besides the Rench icon and go to the tab titled "snap", Click the "none" option in that area and tell me if that makes a difference.

nah its not that. tried that before and just double checked.

Its not a snap issue. The notes are usually like 20ms behind. But their starting times are off.

If you can imagine, me playing drums and recording them. After the first note, the notes are all 10-30ms behind when I actually pressed the key even though the sound is instant when I play on the keyboard and have no latency. I have to turn off all snap drag the notes 10-30ms forward. But even then the notes are quite off (in the sense that if I'm playing the snare on the 3rd down beat of the measure, they will all be slightly off even after dragging them all forward at the same time) and I've been producing for years so I'm not off when I'm laying them down.

 

[King Musa]

nah its not that. tried that before and just double checked.

Its not a snap issue. The notes are usually like 20ms behind. But their starting times are off.

If you can imagine, me playing drums and recording them. After the first note, the notes are all 10-30ms behind when I actually pressed the key even though the sound is instant when I play on the keyboard and have no latency. I have to turn off all snap drag the notes 10-30ms forward. But even then the notes are quite off (in the sense that if I'm playing the snare on the 3rd down beat of the measure, they will all be slightly off even after dragging them all forward at the same time) and I've been producing for years so I'm not off when I'm laying them down.

Are you using an Asio driver or your default on board sound card?

 

[Music Fiend]

Are you using an Asio driver or your default on board sound card?

Nope. Focusrite 2.0. Have a low latency focusrite soundcard.

I'm at 5ms of latency. But even if I switch to the fl Asio or defeauly the results are the same despite latency being 30-45 in those cases.

So I'm almost sure it's the program itself.

 

[Garjxen]

Hmm...I've got a few ideas...You said you've been producing for years - you still using your standard setup? Anything different that might give a clue to where this issue started coming from? You tried adjusting your PPQ in project settings? It will increase or decrease the amount of increments a beat is cut into. For example, if you have snap turned off the note will still experience a division that will influence note placement. That division will be a reflection of your PPQ setting [maybe the PPQ increments aren't fitting into the tempo of that particular project?]. What about setting up latency compensation for the Midi device...maybe adjusting the driver or playback tracking settings? You know one thing that I'm suspicious might be happening is the cpu load spiking and causing processing lag...you monitored your resource usage while producing?

 

[King Musa]

Nope. Focusrite 2.0. Have a low latency focusrite soundcard.

I'm at 5ms of latency. But even if I switch to the fl Asio or defeauly the results are the same despite latency being 30-45 in those cases.

So I'm almost sure it's the program itself.

Okay, so some settings or properties could have possibly been screwed up over time. So, you should type in "reset" or "reset settings" into the Windows start up menu, and click on the program with the FL icon....This will not delete any projects, vst instrument, effects, or anything of that nature. It will just place FL in factory default. See if that helps.

 

[GPBear]

I've always had that problem with FL, sounds like it's not like that for everyone.

I just record the shyt all fukked up and then fix it in the piano roll. Still 100 times easier than using an SP-1200. But I'm not using it for live overdubs, it'd probably be too finicky if I was trying to solo or something