PANELS

Main Panel

The Main panel contains some essential controls for each application - the title bar, the main menu bar, a hint panel and the minimize, maximize/restore and close buttons. It also contains the global volume and pitch controls.

    1. Menu Bar - Provides access to the main menus in FL Studio. For more information, go to Menu Bar pages.
    2. Hint Bar- When you position you cursor over any control, its short description will appear here. The hint bar will also display the value of a wheel or slider while you tweak it etc.
    3. Title Bar - Shows the name of the song currently opened in FL Studio.
    4. Minimize - Hides the main window.
    5. Maximize/Restore - Maximizes/restores FL Studio main window. Multi-monitor mode - After opening FL Studio, click this button then click on the right-most edge of the FL Studio desktop and drag across the screens you want to occupy. Alternatively, a number of FL Studio windows can be detatched from the desktop and moved to another monitor. See the menus associated with the main FL Studio windows (Playlist, Piano roll, Mixer etc) and look for the 'Detached' option.
    6. Close (Alt+F4) - Closes FL Studio.
    7. Sync LED - It blinks in orange color at the beginning of each beat and in yellow color at the beginning of each bar (it works only when the Enable MIDI Output option in Options menu is checked).
    8. MIDI Activity LED - It blinks when MIDI data is received from the MIDI input device (see Live Recording Using MIDI Controller).
    9. Main Volume - Sets the main volume in FL Studio, it is the last level control audio passes through before leaving the program. The main volume control has been provided for quick level adjustments while listening to projects, however, for rendering projects, the main volume should be set at the default level (right-click and select 'reset' to restore to the default value). See the help section on Levels and Mixing to learn how to set mixing levels in FL Studio.
    10. Main Pitch - Sets the main pitch of generators in FL Studio.

Hint Bar

The Hint Bar is particularly useful. Position the cursor over any control and a short description will appear. If you click on a control, the value will be displayed (right-click and copy any value from a control if desired), similarly 'hovering' over most peak meters will show the value at the pointer position. On the right you will find different icons explaining what the hovered item is capable of:

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