Because people are going to be asking… I think its pretty well known now that it was built to work with Ableton this go round so the below is not a knock or anything, just reporting what I see, with my setup, and this Public Beta version of OB
I do own Ableton Lite 9 - But literally its always felt so clunky I could never manage to do anything useful with it even without my hamfisted attempts to do things like make a Beta version of OB work so I gave up within the first 10 minutes.
I got it working with the newest version of FL Studio (previous version was very very unstable and would stop producing sound via USB within the first few minutes, nevermind recording). It installs as a synth type plugin not an effect like I thought it would.
USB audio is very low volume - about -12db - Changing USB to Main [db] from 0 to +18 doesnt seem to make a difference. Using the FL Comp / Limiter at +18 gets you almost to 0 but wow… Maybe there is something I dont know about with the USB audio.
Just like everyone has been chomping at the bit for, insert effects, they work fine.
There is no Midi setup to be done in the host, its all done via the OB engine running in the background.
Works like a champ but only for about 6 seconds when recording all tracks separately before glitching out the audio. Seems pretty stable though just playing around within the plugin and triggering sounds unless you are doing a whole lot. I’m plugged into a USB 3.0 port but through a hub so I will try direct connecting to see if it makes a difference. Have not played around with the standalone version, maybe there is a way to use the outputs of that and record into separate inputs in FL? More stuff to try. I’m not even going to attempt to go HAM and feed midi back to the DT to try and control at this point.
Also FL wants to record a main track as well but if you have clock and transport set in the plugin it doubles the audio basically and you end up with flanging because its playing back both the audio and triggering the DT to play sequence so watch out for that.
Anyways, if anyone else finds anything interesting or otherwise with FL as the host, I’d love to hear about it.
I’ll post any interesting updates that come along and I think its only going to get better here as the beta progresses. Wooooooooooooo!
that’ll be the next part I play with. I got inserts for all 8 tracks running pretty decent. FL kinda has an advantage over AL in that you just have to auto populate all 8 to different tracks. Take that Ableton! J/k Ableton is legit, just not for my workflow.
) and event editor is gettingme closer. Still drawing things in but you can use the tools - scale option to get you for example from 0-127 or 0-99 (Korg monologue program change range) or whatever you need AND you can set the tools - snap and set it to step or beat or bar. Takes a bit to set it up and I think we have different goals, but for me this works for a way to do pattern changes. Waaaay easier than using automation clips and drawing the dots from 0 - random pattern number. Just feels super klunky.