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"Struggling to Learn FL Studio: Navigating Challenges and Seeking Solutions"

Mar 3, 2024 - 7:13pmSummary: The individual is encountering challenges while trying to learn FL Studio. They express frustration in understanding the software and are struggling to find resources to address specific issues. The person reflects on their background in software development and notes the difficulty of learning new applications after a long time. They seek a more intuitive way to navigate and troubleshoot within FL Studio. Despite the challenges, they express gratitude for the software's capabilities and recognize its potential.

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Learning FL Studio

experiencing a significant friction in learning fl studio. a feeling of pretty quick exhaustion understanding the software. wondering how the fact I build software affects this - does my brain just try more to understand everything at once? perhaps i’m less content in only understanding the buttons I need, I want to understand the underlying structure and possibilities.

one thing that particularly got me going today was unlinking a specific knob/input on my midi controller from having an effect on something in the software (a link). it was in a particular tab in a pane where I didn’t expect it to be. I hard a hard time explaining to google what this issue was. I also kept getting results from a forum where they only showed you the first 5 words of a response unless you were logged in.

I think part of it is I just haven’t had to learn new software in a long time. Libraries, frameworks, command line tools yes; primary graphics-first complex apps like a video editor or a 3D-drawing application; been a while. And "basically a video editor without video" as I thought, Audacity is not. Timeline view is a small part of it but there’s many more layers and views onto the same data.

what I need: a way to ask the whole app, “how do I undo what I just did? show in each step separately”, and ‘make all these notes .25 seconds long. Programming with AI, particularly with cursor, has really expanded my horizons on what AI-assisted software can be, and this is closer in experience to running a Java game than a video editor.

Also recognizing all new things are hard in the beginning. Noticing I don’t like mixing creative and cognitive tasks in this way - “follow the stream of a cool new melody” and “find the button that toggles off the thing that lets me play it with this other piece” is a very different mode. Perhaps this is why recording takes are continuous and long at first pass.

Also quite grateful fl studio exists - together with my midi controller, seems to do far more than I’ll ever need. It is a powerful piece a software, and there’s wisdom in the design of it even if I can’t see it right away.

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