every DAW has a piano roll... therefore you can "click" those boxes in any of them to create those "microwave bests"!!!
not sure what you are talking about here!!!
FL's Piano Roll is designed around point-and-click
creation from scratch.
Many other DAWs (especially heavyweight linear sequencers like Cubase, Pro Tools, Logic) have piano rolls which are designed around
modifying recorded MIDI.
The difference manifests itself in numerous small feature/workflow differences, which make a big difference once combined. If you don't have a controller, FL's workflow is the way to go.
A few of the tiny differences:
- In many DAWs, "Quantize" is a single keystroke: "Q". In FL, Quantize is "Alt+Q", and is buried amidst several options in the menu. FL has fewer Quantize options than many other DAWs. Quantization simply isn't treated with the same sense of importance.
- FL's Piano Roll starts out in Pencil Mode. Left click to create a note. Right click to delete it. Other DAWs usually start out in selection mode. Left-click-dragging immediately upon opening the Piano Roll in other DAWs usually creates a selection rectangle.
- In FL's Piano Roll, you hear a note preview every time you create or drag a note. Some other DAWs don't do this, or offer this behavior as an optional feature that is turned off by default.
- FL's Piano Roll comes with a ridiculous amount of MIDI modification tools for humanizing and adding interest to clicked-in notes - Strum, Flam, Pattern Chop, Arpeggio, Articulate, etc. You can even select chords to click-in, so that you aren't required to know how to form them. Some other DAWs have some of these features, but not to FL Studio's extent.
Conversely, the same interface/features/workflow which make FL great for "click-and-create" production make it somewhat undesirable for using with a controller. Its a set of tradeoffs created by design.
-Ki
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