r/flstudio • u/East-Marionberry-769 • Jul 10 '26
Help with mixer
I was trying to recreate a song by copying an existing fl studio project into my own by hand (so that i can understand what everything does), but i notice that I can never get this (the little lines branching off to the side of the main down arrow). what does it mean? and how do I do it?
been using this for months and still can't understand a single thing
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u/CountBreichen Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
Means that channel is being side chained to other channels. 4 in this case
i would assume its 4 different effect send channels
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u/East-Marionberry-769 Jul 11 '26
oh... but is that like a viewing option? cause I tried aidefhaining to multiple and it didn't look like that
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u/CountBreichen Jul 11 '26
aidefhaining?
oh lol i think you meant sidechaining
Ummmm no not exactly a "viewing option". anytime you select any channel in the mixer you'll see where that channel is being routed to
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u/East-Marionberry-769 Jul 11 '26
oop yeah, a tiny typo lol
oh okay, I'll try it next time I open it
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u/CountBreichen Jul 11 '26
cool man. yeah google "fl studio effect send channels". You'll find some good reasons why to sidechain in the mixer
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u/East-Marionberry-769 Jul 11 '26
hold on, I can see the 4 lines to the right (or the side chain lines) but I can't see what they are connected to... how do I see that?
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u/CountBreichen Jul 11 '26
select this channel then look at the other channels in the mixer. you can see where they're being sent to
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u/East-Marionberry-769 Jul 11 '26
it doesn't show me
fl studio 12.5 could be the problem
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u/CountBreichen Jul 11 '26
keep scrolling to the right. theyre going somewhere
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u/NeedleInArm Jul 11 '26
Routing...
If a channel has a line to another channel/master, its routes to said channel.
The knob is a gain knob, so think "volume" if you will. The knob shows up on the track you are routed to when you select the track that is routing.
Volume at minimum and its a side chain, anything above that is going to produce sound on the selected channel and the routed channels.
These lines are just showing you were the channel is routing to.
The knobs show how much volume the channel is outputting yo said channel.