I bought FL7 about a week ago, finally have sometime, so I installed it, went to open my midi file, no problem, goto play it, but there is no sound, any ideas ?

I have audio output to my sounds card obviously... X-fi.

Midi is data not audio


^ hope that is not patronising, it is not meant to sound that way

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Last edited by Ry Thomas on Dec-16-2007 at 20:45

What kind of sound were you expecting? The kind you'd get if you opened it in Windows Media Player?

something more than nothing, i know its data.... notes..... which are them played by the player....

You have to replace the channel with a vst. Right click, replace and pick a vst.

I usually always throw fl keys on there just to hear how it sounds real quick.

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Originally posted by gwrmarines You have to replace the channel with a vst. Right click, replace and pick a vst. I usually always throw fl keys on there just to hear how it sounds real quick.

thanks for the help, n00b here with Fl kinda

This is gonna sound stupid but I've been using FL for a loong time and one thing I have consistently not been able to do is export a song in midi format.
I've tried saving it, exporting, I make sure the options to allow midi export are checked off but when I go back to check the file after its done theres no midi data in it at all. Is there something I might be missing? I've read the manual, I've used common sense and I still can't render a midi file.

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Originally posted by Trance-Canada thanks for the help, n00b here with Fl kinda

Not a problem.

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox This is gonna sound stupid but I've been using FL for a loong time and one thing I have consistently not been able to do is export a song in midi format. I've tried saving it, exporting, I make sure the options to allow midi export are checked off but when I go back to check the file after its done theres no midi data in it at all. Is there something I might be missing? I've read the manual, I've used common sense and I still can't render a midi file.

You have to go to Tools, Macros, Prepare for MIDI export. Though, you gotta have each channel in 1 pattern, like if you ever imported a MIDI how they are all in one pattern, seperate channels. It's gotta be like that.

After you do all that, then you can export as MIDI.

EDIT: If you do the whole song it'll be one channel notes overlapped and what not. Havent messed around with it much...

Hope this helps.

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Originally posted by Chris Crossland Not a problem. You have to go to Tools, Macros, Prepare for MIDI export. Though, you gotta have each channel in 1 pattern, like if you ever imported a MIDI how they are all in one pattern, seperate channels. It's gotta be like that. After you do all that, then you can export as MIDI. EDIT: If you do the whole song it'll be one channel notes overlapped and what not. Havent messed around with it much... Hope this helps.

OMG HAHA!!! Dude you rock. I've been trying to figure that out for years (literally). I'm still in shock that I actually got it to work. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox OMG HAHA!!! Dude you rock. I've been trying to figure that out for years (literally). I'm still in shock that I actually got it to work. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

LOL, glad i could help.

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there's a plugin called "Fruity LSD", which is used to play general midi sounds. so when you load a midi file to FL, put effect on the master channel and set the channel same as the one with the midi channels. there's even few different soundsets.

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Originally posted by a98 there's a plugin called "Fruity LSD", which is used to play general midi sounds. so when you load a midi file to FL, put effect on the master channel and set the channel same as the one with the midi channels. there's even few different soundsets.

Cool, that's pretty neat. I still prefer to throw FL Keys on em im stubborn.

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