Building MIDI templates in the Piano Roll

A MIDI template is a pre-scored series of notes within the Piano Roll that, over time, you will accumulate for workflow optimization. These are note or chord progression scores we will build following the formula of creating melodies that work and ultimately saving the scores as MIDI files, so we can drop and drag in and out of the Piano Roll tool when creating new productions. In this section, we will go through each step to starting creating MIDI templates.

Let’s open up FL Studio and load into the Channel Rack the FL Keys VST (for this example, you can use any playable VST, but starting chords or a melody on a simple piano VST can help save time when creating future productions in FL Studio):

Figure 2.33: FL Keys | the Piano Roll window

For the exercise we will discuss in this section, we will create a chord progression that you can use to create template frameworks using the MIDI export feature in...