
You’ll also add some effects to help everything sound polished and balanced.įinally, now that your beat has been fully composed, it’s time to export/render it out into a useable format – MP3, WAV, YouTube Video, etc. Then you’ll adjust the volume levels of each part/sound so that nothing is too loud or too quiet and everything site well together. Here you can add transitions between sections or accentuators like drum drops or drum fills, etc. The main sections you need are an intro, verses, choruses, an outro and maybe a pre-chorus plus a bridge/departure, depending on genre. Now you’re going to combine the parts you wrote in Step 2 in various ways to form larger song sections, and then arrange the sections into a full song. The main parts you need are chords, melody, drums and bass. You write one, and then continue building on top of it with other layers using different sounds. Now it’s time to write and record several short (4-16 bar) patterns of musical ideas. This can be a sample or an instrument like piano/keys, synths, drums, etc. Here’s some more skins to inspire you.Here’s a step by step process for making beatsįirst, it’s time to choose whatever sound or sounds you want to base your beat around. If you want to get your hands dirty and are a bit into computer drawing already, check out this guide to Skinning FL Studio. Enjoy! If you are still running FL Studio 11 or less and you really want to spice up the graphics, simply head over to the flipsideforum aka The Skin Tank. I hoped it may even influence the way I make music, but aside from a short motivation bump, all these hours invested in pimping my FL Studio were useless and unproductive. I mostly just personalised the colour scheme to my liking. I’ve also grown sick of the dull green look of FL Studio during the years.It wasn’t all that hard to modify all of the graphics and come up with an entirely new look with a custom skin.

These things were easy for almost anyone to change and package up as an FL Studio Skins. Most these custom artworks were pretty horrific to work with, but nevertheless we wanted to show you what these would looked like.

They had a simpler mechanism and used simple bitmap images for the GUI. That’s reason why most reskins that you find, are for FL Studio 11 and older versions.

There are actually no official alternative FL Studio skins. According to the developers legal notice, modification of the FL Studio GUI is a violation of their copyright and moral rights.įrom FL Studio 12 a new graphical user interface was introduced and it’s not possible to modify the GUI without unauthorized changes to the FL Studio runtime code.
