<Pony><Original> Fluttershy's Garden

[White Cloud]

This is my second attempt at using FL. I am still very new to the program, but I am pleased with how this song turned out.

https://soundcloud.com/white_cloud-1/fluttershys-garden

[Bendelsohn]

Composition wise, this was pretty good. However, you might want to change around the velocities on the piano keys in the melody. I used to make the same mistake a lot, and I found that making things softer and more dynamic adds a ton to a piece.

[White Cloud]

Unfortunately, that is something I have no idea how to do. I still don't know a lot about FL. But I am glad you enjoyed the composition. (BTW, I am using FL Keys for the piano, if that helps at all)

[PropellerEscape]

Unfortunately, that is something I have no idea how to do. I still don't know a lot about FL. But I am glad you enjoyed the composition. (BTW, I am using FL Keys for the piano, if that helps at all)

In the piano roll, when you place a note there should be those weird L shaped things at the bottom. By default those should be at roughly 80%, so by moving them up and down (not too much mind you) it can give you the effect of a real person playing the keys. Note that this technique only works with native FL plugins (IDK about the soundfont player)
Another way to make it sound realistic, is when you play chords or notes, you should offset the notes slightly from each other and drag overlap notes occasionally, or else it sounds robotic and really quantized.
You could also play around with panning as well in the per-note parameters, by clicking on where it says note velocity and changing to note pan.
Finally, I would recommend that you get a better piano VST or soundfont, because FL keys quite frankly sucks. Add reverb and EQ the piano as well, it can make it sound more acoustic and 'real'.

Hope these tips help :3

[Matthew N.]

Instead of manually (though it is recommended) changing volume levels of each note in the piano roll, you can go to tools->randomize in piano roll and then play with the "Levels" settings.

[White Cloud]

Awesome tips guys. Thanks. I will play around with those and see what I can come up with.