Rewire FL Studio To Pro Tools Tutorial

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Avoid crappy conversions and record FL output directly to your Pro Tools Session. Recorded files will automatically be in the format of the session. 24 bit / 88.2k for example.

Make sure FL is registered as a rewire client.
Open Pro tools and set your tempo to the song you wish to record. Create an aux track and a stereo or mono audio track.
Now on an insert of the aux track load FL studio. It should come up as an instrument.
Now load your song in FL.
In FL you can select what track you want to go to what output. You have 16 outputs. All stereo.
For example. If you are recording a kick. Assign the kick in FL to the FL1 output. In Pro Tools the rewire FL insert is automaticall set to recieve on FL1.
Now bus the output of the Aux track in Pro Tools to the audio track. The audio track should be mono since we are dealing with the kick. Now your routing should be as follows.

In FL Studio:
FL Kick --> FL1 Output

In Pro Tools:
FL Rewire Plugin, FL1 Left + FL1 Right on Aux Track insert ---> Bus 1 & 2 ---> Input on Audio track Recieves on Bus 1 ---> Audio Track record enabled.

Now in FL Studio Press play. You kick should play and the signal level will show up on both the audio track and the aux track in Pro Tools.
Now you can adjust the level to your liking to be recorded. This can be done either in FL, or using your aux track in Pro Tools if the gain in FL proves to not be enough.

Now in Pro Tools hit record.

Repeat this for as many tracks as you have in your song or as many as you computer can handle. To ease CPU usage remove FX plugins that may have been used in FL on you song like verbs etc. Essentially any plug-in or effect that can be re-created in Pro tools. It is better to have the dry tracks anyway. Only record with FX plug-ins if that effect or sound is impossible to recreate.
Even some instruments can be left out if you know how to recreate the sequence in Pro Tools.

Quick hint: Don't bother to record your whole song straight thru if you have your drums looped or anything else looped. Just record the loop then arrange in Pro Tools.





Now your beat is ready to be recorded to, mixed and mastered all in a handy dandy portable pro tools session. lol


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Can you correlate that with Cubase instead of Pro Tools? I will appreciate that greatly?!!

AP
 
Hmm. used to do this in Cubase but kinda forgot. but from what i remember. . . Open Cubase, then open FL. In Cubase in one of your menus u Devices I think. You will see Fl Studio. Clik it and and you will be able to enable all the channels you will want.
Assign the channels in FL to the corresponding channels.
Then in Cubase assign the FL inputs to your audio tracks
 
after i set everything up for rewire it works fine until i have to go back to protools then i have to close fl for the protools session to open then i can't get back to fl. I need to know how to have both windows open?
 
You don't have to close FL. Just minimize it or maximize Pro Tools. There is also a small FL rewire window that comes up. Click the fruit.
 
Good tutorial. Though I'm far to lazy I just split mixer tracks and drag them into Pro Tools... Shame on me.
 
thats fine for audio..how do you get a midi note from FL to PT?
 
It depends. You do have a midi export function in FL just so you know. There is also the option of using FL as an instrument inside of PT. Just make an instrument track with FL as its instrument and have it play through PT.

Very simple fixes. The audio is harder.
 
Wouldn't rendering at full quality from FL be avoiding a crappy conversion from realtime recording to PT or any other software?
 
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Wouldn't rendering at full quality from FL be avoiding a crappy conversion from realtime recording to PT or any other software?
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Depends. When I made this tutorial FL only gave two export options for wave.

32 bit and 16 bit.

So it was more for recording at 24 bit instead of converting down the 32 bit to 24 bit then importing.

It also saves on space requirements, in that FL only outputs stereo files. Using rewire you can make the determination if to record a track in stereo or mono.

This tutorial is outdated in the fact that FL8 now supports 24 bit output.
Why they waited so long to implement it is beyond me.

If I am wrong, correct me where necessary.
 
I didn't mean that. You know how you can select the "sampler interpolation" setting? A higher value takes a significant amount of longer time to render because the rendering is more processor intensive because it is also more accurate.

I don't know that the 32 bit thing was a big deal. I always thought it was a 24 bit file in a 32 bit shell so the conversion seemed like it'd just truncate the upper 8 bits. That there was anything there, I don't know either.

Edit: Just saw the date on this.
 
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OFF said:
It depends. You do have a midi export function in FL just so you know. There is also the option of using FL as an instrument inside of PT. Just make an instrument track with FL as its instrument and have it play through PT.

Very simple fixes. The audio is harder.
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I use the midi export method all the time just looking for an easier way. I tried to hook that up, but the midi notes arent making it to PT. I'll keep trying....

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I use the midi export method all the time just looking for an easier way. I tried to hook that up, but the midi notes arent making it to PT. I'll keep trying....

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Your supposed to put the midi in PT, then it makes its way to FL to be picked up by the active instrument you assign it to, then the audio makes it back to PT.

Essentially make an instrument track. Have FL as the instrument.

Now in Pro Tools, open the instrument track and play your midi arrangement there. You have to record it or draw it in tho. If things go well when you set up the routing correctly you should be able to play ur keys and hear the FL output as an instrument in PT


Then its just to forget FL. Record arm ur midi track in PT and have fun. Then set up another channel and keep going.

Or something like that. . .
 
much prop's OFF this information was very helpfull fam .!!!!! Im on a whole nother level now It's not as complex as it seem's. Well with FL 8 anyway.
 
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New at this rewirering

Hi, can someone explain me the advantage of rewire fl? Im asking because I don't know whats the purpose.

Thanks to anyone who replies.
 
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