Creating effects with Patcher
Patcher is an FL Studio plugin that allows you to chain instruments and effects together. Patcher allows you to create your own custom instrument and effect chains, link everything together, and save them for reuse in other projects. Patcher is related to modular synthesis. Modular synthesis is where you have individual instrument and effect components and you link them together to connect everything.
Patcher can be loaded into the Channel Rack or onto a Mixer channel. If loaded into the Channel Rack, you can load instrument plugins and Patcher will play the instrument using MIDI notes sent to it from the Piano roll. If Patcher is loaded in the Mixer, it's intended to be used as an effect rather than to play MIDI notes. In the following examples, we assume that you want to use Patcher as an instrument and accept MIDI notes, and have loaded Patcher into the Channel Rack:
- In the Channel Rack, load up Patcher. Open it up and you'll see...
