

I may have played in too many notes here. If I double-click the pattern, we can see the notes that I played in. Let's have a listen to what I just recorded.

Or you can just click on the Record button and get out of record mode. If you don't like that, you can right-click here and select this option Disarm on-stop. Now the recording button is still lit, so as soon as I hit play or hit the Spacebar, we will go back into record mode.

I just hit the Spacebar and we've stopped the recording process. Now all we need to do is hit the play button. I could have selected everything because that will just record everything and notes falls under everything, but since I know specifically I'm recording notes, I'll select notes and automation. So I'm going to select nodes and automation. Of all these options, what we're looking to record is MIDI data and that falls in the notes. This pop-up appears, that's asking us what we would like to record. Well, first we'll hear one bar counting and then start recording from here. I can set a two bars, but I'll leave it at one bar, so I'll get a one-bar counting before the recording starts. If I right-click here, I can change the number of bars we're counting. I'm going to enable the metronome so that way I can make sure to perform on time and match with the tempo of the project. As long as you hit record FL Studio will continue to record whatever notes you playing until the point here stop. So I'm just going to move this pattern over here to bar five and also lengthen it because I know I'm going to record a four-bar long pattern. I do want to record from bar five on wards. When I play notes on my MIDI controller, you can hear the bass. So we will take a look at using quantization to ensure that all these patterns are grooving well with the arrangement. After recording these MIDI patterns, you may notice that the timing is not quite right. We're going to record MIDI into the playlist. Now we're going to take a look at recording MIDI data.
