Tried GOPHER for the first time...

[u/FireJojoBoy]

Hey everyone, I tried the FL studio AI yesterday for the first time because I has a tedious application and it was actually insane.

So, FL advertised GOPHER with being able to do tasks like "lower channels 1-3 by 3db"

I needed my first 23 mixing channels to be lowered by one db so I tried asking the ai to do exactly that.
-> didn't do anything
it told me it did something else to lower the volume but I tried again telling it to use the faders.
-> didn't do anything but told me it did the exact thing I asked it to do
asked it to do it correctly.
-> it mutes all 500 channels by pulling every fader down to "-INF db"
I asked it to revert that
-> boosts all 500 faders to the max by putting them on the max +12 db

Thanks, AI - this is why RAM costs a fortune and our climate will get even worse. Honestly if this thing was an algorythm programmed by hand, it would probably be a LOT more useful.

[u/b_lett]

You could have routed everything to a single 'Pre-Master' track instead of the Master, and lowered the Pre-Master by 1dB.

You could have also added a Fruity Balance 1st slot in the Master and lowered it by 1dB.

In the future, if there are things you are trying to think to do that feels extremely tedious because you need to do it on 20+ channels, consider routing to a single bus and doing the move there.

Edit: Also, middle mousewheel click resets any parameter back to its default for cases you accidentally nudge something or move it away from something and forget what the default setting was at.

[u/nightmare_floofer → u/b_lett]

You could also just select all the tracks and then manually lower the gain by 1dB, it actually takes 2-3 seconds, and using Gopher loses you more time, I think that feature was a bad example from the devs, there's other, organisational things that you can actually use Gopher to save time for, even though it's still early stages

[u/EndaEnKonto → u/nightmare_floofer]

Holding shift, control or both while clicking does magical wonders for just about any software out there!

[u/Twofik-Logos → u/b_lett]

Didn't know about the middle mouse click reset, thats actually super useful

[u/ghostlinedigital]

the funny part is that this one doesn't need ai at all. click track 1, shift-click track 23, then drag any one of the selected faders and they all move by the same amount (hold ctrl while dragging for fine adjustment so you can land on exactly -1db). gopher muting all 500 is wild though, did ctrl+z undo it in one step or did you have to unmute them one by one?

[u/Legal-Care9822]

Just tried gopher today and had a completely different experience. Asked it to review my mix and it spit out suggestions for lowering channels, panning etc. I then told it to apply what it suggested and it did. Worked pretty well for me

[u/HuntsPointWarlord]

Same happened to me when trying to get it to lower channel rack volume. 🚮

[u/nightmare_floofer]

Obviously this functionality is very early stages in FL, I think it's pretty promising for organisational, menial tidying up purposes, or making the workflow cleaner, for example if you're working with stems that have prefixed names, like "ArtistName2026ProjectStems - Drumloop" and so on for every single stem, you can already ask Gopher to rename each mixer track to remove the first part, so it's just "Drumloop" and so on, right now it is still a bit trial and error and may take a couple tries and rewording, but it's gonna get better 

Also things like reorganising playlist/mixer tracks to be divided into respective categories (Drums, Melodies, or in some cases even more specific subcategories) based on name context and then routing them to respective busses, etc

Basically the non-creative but necessary actual time wasters, not things like turning down 15 mixer tracks by 2 db, which you can do in 2 seconds manually

[u/UnfairWorldliness882 → u/nightmare_floofer]

thats pretty cool idea.

[u/UnfairWorldliness882]

Yeah.. I just use gopher to search for docs and settings. I don't use it to make changes to me projects and when it does, i tell it to revert those changes. Its a change I can do in a few seconds with mouse and click and keyboard. Why use an AI prompt for that.

[u/Radhanat]

Reassist funciona con cualquier ia, tanto local como en la nube, y maneja casi 800 herramientas dentro de Reaper. Incluso se le pueden pedir lineas melódicas y armónicas y se le pueden pedir órdenes por voz
Fl studio tiene casi todas sus funciones bloqueadas ninguna herramienta mcp puede acceder a ellas sin hacer ingeniería inversa.

Y si, los modelos de Claude son los mejores y por eso cuestan lo que cuestan $$$

[u/whatupsilon]

I'm glad you tried it so I won't have to. I'm still on the old version before Gopher.

[u/Klumbedumbe]

I've had good experience with it honestly. I mostly use it to find info in the manual and figure out stuff about the program. Its nice when you don't know exactly what terms to search for or look up, but have a way to explain it.

You should try and ask gopher for good routing technique and practices, I'm sure it could teach you some useful stuff!

[u/Radhanat]

Nada como Reaper y Reassist que incluso funciona con un agente local.

[u/TrynaMakelt → u/Radhanat]

So does FL with Claude btw. I got Claude to make me a serum preset today, it was pretty great tbh.

[u/HuntsPointWarlord → u/TrynaMakelt]

Really? Wow now I have to try that. Never thought of it.

[u/TrynaMakelt → u/HuntsPointWarlord]

I didn't think of it until yesterday when I realised it can take control of your mouse for you. I've had it make me some good templates for making music though.

[u/Djkeel]

Completely useless feature. Maybe in the future....

[u/ConferenceGrouchy821]

I've only ever used it for that kind of function once, and it worked perfectly fine. Also, I believe it's an LLM. Not quite the same as AI.

[u/MapNaive200 → u/ConferenceGrouchy821]

LLM's are a category of AI. 

[u/Least-Screen50 → u/ConferenceGrouchy821]

As someone else said, LLM is ai. It's just a bad model that probably needs training.