FL Studio: Adding Effects

In this tutorial, I'm going to show how to add effects to your sounds. Some of these effects include: delay, reeverb, compression and all sorts of filters. All these simple effects can add a huge amount to your music. Starting out with the basic effects I listed really helps you get the hang of it and will prepare you for some of the more advanced effects that FL Studio offers.


To begin adding effects, Find the mixer button. This will open up the mixer that controls all the effects that can be assigned to different channels. Use the picture below to locate the mixer button.

Once the mixer window is open click the first tab that says "channel 1." Next click one of the several down arrows on the right side of the mixer window. Next click "select," and pick any one of the many that are listed. I'm going to pick "Fruity Delay 2," for example. Your mixer window should now look like this:

Now go to any channel that you have open. Click on the tab to open the channel settings window. To link this channel to the mixer, set the "FX" setting in the top right corner to "1."

Now the sound is linked to the mixer and the effect is ready to be used.